This film sucks

I'm only 13, watch what you're saying. I can appreciate this film and it was pretty good. What the other poster does not understand is that this film is not ment to be an action flick, its a drama and it was pretty good.

or maybe the movie really sucked from the beginning to the end.

I'm gonna make the typical "the book was better than the movie" comment.

But fortunately, the movie didn't stray too much from the original plot.



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I didn't like it. It is clearly not a 1 though. I gave it a 4.

The story wasn't that interesting and was too long and pretty boring. It just wasn't a well-directed film.

The opening scene is a cheap trick because it implies that Eddie did it, and it implies it merely to US THE VIEWERS, rather than implying it to a character in the film, and we are of course told later that Eddie didn't. That kind of cheap device alone disqualifies it from being a good film.

Which, all by itself, is enough to make me pretty much laugh at the people who, in a couple of posts right above this one, seem to be attempting to defend this movie by saying that anyone who didn't like it is just a stupid person who is capable only of enjoying dumb action films like Steven Seagal movies. Rising Sun might not be as dumb as a dumb Steven Seagal film, but it's a pretty dumb film. Sometimes, really dumb action films can actually be more entertaining than boring and slightly less dumb but still pretty dumb dramas like this one, and I don't see what the point of films is if it isn't to entertain the viewer.

I agree with the earlier points about the lack of chemistry between Sean and Wesley. Casting Sean was understandable, but Wesley was cast clearly just to sell tickets and to broaden the film's audience.

I found the story uneven, and too long. Some of the scenes were pretty much pointless and could've been cut. For example, when Eddie's buddies were chasing Connor and Smith through what was presumably inner city territory, it seemed to me that they had already successfully lost their pursuers, but then for some unknown reason they stop to have a long conversation with Smith's buddies, who Smith convinces to get in the way of Eddie's buddies. And they succeed in delaying Eddie's buddies but not for very long. The conversation they had with Smith seemed longer than the amount of time by which they succeeded in delaying Eddie's buddies. Their pursuers were already far behind them when they started the scene involving the conversation, and it just made no sense. That could've easily been cut out.

And I think it's childish to come here and tell people people who don't like movies to keep it to themselves, and that they must be people who are capable only of enjoying dumb action films. That is clearly a ridiculous stance to take. This Board is for folks who want to talk about this movie, and they should say bad things about it if they think bad things about it. It's pretty ironic, because the Board is definitely not intended for people to come here to attack folks for merely expressing their views about a film. You don't have to go around attacking people with whom you disagree. You don't know anything about these folks' film preferences. And there's nothing wrong with enjoying dumb action movies. I find that you people who are attacking the folks who didn't like the movie to be childish and silly.

However, I do think that anyone who would give this a 1 just hasn't seen very many bad movies. There are so many. This is one of them, but it's not crazy bad. It's just kind of bad, kind of boring, too long, was not well cast, was not well-edited, and relies on a cheap trick. It's not something anyone needs to see. It's not an example of good cinema, and no one will remember it 40 years from now.