Boring Movie!!

Yes!!! This movie is SOOOOOOOOOO boring and full of "dead" acting and unappealing characters and too much rain. The plot sucks, and what the point of Robert Duvall, his talent was totally wasted.

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Boring?
I thought the film was good! Yeah your right about Kenneths wife being hotter than the girl he feel for but thatw asnt the point. I thought the story was ok. And Kenneths role was good. He was good in the film! And he was dead sweet to his kids!!!

Well in my opinion i think this is a great film! And i loved it...

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Laptop22--Boring is in the eye of the beholder. But I take issue with some of your points.

Branagh's character did not leave his wife for the caterer: they were already split and thoroughly acrimonious and she even has a new lawyer boyfriend. Branagh's apparently a chronic womanizer besides. There was no reason for him to think he was ever going to get into his ex's panties again, or turn down easy nookie from a new babe when he's already drunk and horny. Janssen's being hotter or more beautiful than Davidtz (even if objectively determinable) doesn't make this unbelievable.

Downey and Hannah played terrific wiseasses who threw light on Branagh's clueless headlong acceptance of his client's story.

Yes, the call should have been made from the room, but it's a plot device, forgivable if one conjectures that he didn't want to leave that distinct a trace of his whereabouts. A call from a motel's phone booth doesn't prove you are staying at the motel.

PS to gayamat2000--Duvall was only partially wasted as an actor of his stature makes a splendid red herring suspect.

Not boring at all. It was certainly not Altman I thought it would be (Short Cuts, Cookie's Fortune, Gosfor Park), but it was a thrill and a good piece of work with director's stamp visible. The atmosphere with hurricane arriving, the dialogs, the characters, the acting, the plot... I loved it all. And, of course, that discreete light on a snobbish middle class that Magruder and his ex-wife belong to. Towards the end of the film ex Mrs. Magruder, terribly revengeful and full of rage throughout the film, can’t hide her snobbish nature and calls his new girl-friend “white trash” (scene in the Police station when she came to pick up their kids).

He’s a successful lawyer, a womanizer, we do not know much about his upbringing, but he meets this working class woman in distress and offers help. Is it a sincere gesture or just the opportunity for a one night stand? Is it a human emotion or a hunter’s instinct? Somehow, her problems that seemed real (and are real for many individuals that we pretend not to see around us) got him involved in a plot that follows. Hunter becomes a pray. And the audience knows nothing more than he knows so I started to like him for being more than a shallow professional and philanderer. We are all hooked in this story. Our social biases discreetly switched off and on. Her barefoot father with the appearance of a homeless man, his buddies, the danger they seem to impose, the fishy detective and the bars he goes to...The plot is great, provoking and disturbing.

About that phone call when his children disappear: he chooses to make a call form the phone booth because he tries very hard to keep his kids calm and unaware of the danger they’re in. He couldn’t have made all the necessary information exchange in front of them without alarming them. That’s all.

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I wanted to like this movie, I really did. But it bored me to death as well. Robert Downey Jr. should have been the main character, not Kenneth B. Maybe then it would have been more worthy of watching. I picked up this movie b/c it got two thumbs up, also b/c of RDJ. Not only was this movie boring, but it confused the hell out of me. At one point I was like ugh, I'm just going to fast forward to the ending before I pass out! This film was a mess!

Excellent film and sublime cast!