The start was Okay, the kidnapping and all.
When Christopher Walken kept appearring from nowhere, it seemed that Johnny Depp's character was having a psychotic break.
After that, it was downhill all the way...the bad guys gave Depp's character as much leeway as he wanted. (I wouldn't be surpised to find him go-karting, watching TV, or even taking trip to the Bahamas in the extended version)
I can't think of many saving graces after 30 minutes into the film.
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I though it was really well done. I didn't have any issues with the "problems" you listed. I found it realistic enough.
shareI thought it was great! I was on the edge of my seat for most of the movie. I was constantly wondering how Depp's character was going to get out of every situation. My mom saw it and she loved it, and she never likes these "thriller" type movies.
George: I didn't have anything better to do that day. It's not like I was on parole or anything.
While I thought the movie was good, I just watched it again for the 2nd time (first in like 10 years) and I did notice they seemed to give him a lot of leeway lol. Go to the bar, go to the bathroom 20 times, shoe shines, elevator rendezvous, trying to get help like 5 times. All he got was a single punch to the stomach and Walken even apologized lol. Oh well, aside form that its a great suspense/thriller movie.
sharecompletely agree, random "jack in the box" walken is all i can remember about this weak film. Always makes me sad to see two great actors in one stoopid film.
shareok...granted i didnt see the whole thing....I cant really say much...I came in at the time where they let Depp into the inaugerarion or whatever with a gun. So i was like "OH!!!...Johhny Depp!, this should be good." I like fiction and fantasy...but it has to be some what realistic. All i know is Chrtopher walken 's charaxter got shot like 5 times and didnt die. I think he may have had a bullet proof vest on but realisticly at close range, he would not have been as healthy (or alive) as he was. but i shrugged that off you know. 90's hollywood...w/e. But come on...right after that Johnny Depps character was thrown like 7 stories down and landed on his face!!! how the heck did he just get up and walk from that?!?!?! thats wen i began to get pissed off lol. I was busy at the time i was watching the movie, so i was phasing in and out...but I remember looking up and seeing these two people that were shot laying on top of one another. the one on the bottom woke up first, and flintched, which some how awakened the dead soul on top of him!....people just would not die in that movie!...it was then I lost all concern for the little girls life. I figured, even if she did die...she would just come back to life anyway. So i decided to watch it later in it's entierty from the beginning. Does anyone have any explainations for why no one would die?
share.... are you serious? lol, you missed the explanation entirely, it was a kind of dream sequence during the time Depp's Character was knocked unconscious by Walken's.
shareWhat's unrealistic is how many times Depp got hit in the groin! I would've been tired of that reaaal quick!
share.... are you serious? lol, you missed the explanation entirely, it was a kind of dream sequence during the time Depp's Character was knocked unconscious by Walken's.
Depp was given leeway to go all sorts of places in the building because...they had his child hostage. He knew the child would be killed if he did something "too overt."
shareAfter that, it was downhill all the way...the bad guys gave Depp's character as much leeway as he wanted. (I wouldn't be surpised to find him go-karting, watching TV, or even taking trip to the Bahamas in the extended version)
I can't believe that no one is discussing the obvious hollywood liberal political slant of this movie. The Governor was to be killed because she became too liberal, meaning the conspirators were conservatives. Very cliche and dissapointing.
I'm not that proud of everything I've done, but I'm not that ashamed, either.
Movies are meant to entertain so expect the director to take some liberties in the plot to make it cliche, Hollywood, whatever you want to call it for the sake of entertaining the audience...cmon ppl this movie wasn't an Oscar winner, don't take these things too seriously and you'll have a better time.
shareWow.. must people politicize everything? The bought senator wouldn't stay bought.
shareShe wasn't so bad -- she did want prayer in schools.
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I think your point is backwards.
It would be less realistic if the villains had as tight a leash on Depp's character as they would have liked to. If they tried too hard to control him in the hotel, then they would have either aroused suspicion, or caused a scene to such an extent that the operation would be in jeopardy and no longer discreet.
The "leeway" given him is actually realistic. Walken's character could do only so much to force the protagonist to the resolve without causing the aforementioned scene. Remember, they only have his daughter held hostage as their only leverage. What if the protagonist either snaps under the stressful situation and causes a scene himself, or decides that the antagonists are bluffing and decides to do the opposite of what he's supposed to do? For the Walken character, it's a delicate operation.
I didn't quite grasp your second sentence.
I'm not a control freak, I just like things my way
They did try too hard to control him in the hotel. Walken would have been on surveillance video at Union Station, and several times at the hotel coaching Depp to do the hit.
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