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I Still Watch This

posted 8 years ago by Soodinum
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once in a blue moon, but heck, it's such crap.

I like Denzel - I've yet to see a bad performance from him. Even when he's in stuff I don't care for at all, he seems to do a great job.

But the writing is abysmal - it's like a first year scriptwriting class was set an assignment in the first month and this was the second-worse offering.

Some of the other actors who are normally good are shocking in this too. And I'm not hating on the subject matter - I saw and loved Tron as a teenager and love stuff like this, IF it's handled right. Tron was cheesy but somehow charming.

The music was beyond awful. The pacing and dialogue was grating at almost every turn.

While I can watch something like Reanimator and revel in the cheesiness, I find this really painful to watch (outside a couple of key scenes).

'Then' and 'than' are different words - stop confusing them.

[–] jay_guevara-1 8 years ago

I thought this was uneven, ranging from good to brilliant in places and then as you've described, painful and cringeworthy. Crowe and Washington gave top performances within the confines of the situation but a lot of the extras were terrible: from the woman in the wrestling arena to the hostage and outraged witness during the train sequence.

For me, a standout moment that showcased the wasted potential is the flashback scene where Parker is spurred on by adrenaline and anger in the face of losing a limb, his wife and daughter and guns down the terrorists and even ditches his spent Beretta for a commandeered Skorpion and continues his one-man onslaught. During the POV shots, you see a nice touch in the realism of Parker struggling to retain accuracy with just one arm.

If the rest of the film had been on that level, it would've been something.

[–] Prismark10 8 years ago

The film was cheesy rubbish but good to see Denzel and Russell at it against each other.

It's that man again!!