This movie got some bad reviews...but I loved it! It was so good. The chemistry between Fiennes and Mol was so intense. Fiennes really shined in this movie. Liotta was wonderful as usual. I loved the music, the couple, the symbolism, and the ending was so bittersweet. How did you feel about the ending? Anyway, I love this movie!
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I thought it was okay. The story seemed to be missing something I can't quite describe in words, but Paul Schrader is a great filmmaker. And how about Mol? What a rack on her. She is very attractive. I think this movie was passed up on by many people. It's not great, but interesting.
shareI was prepared to hate this movie. Instead, I really liked it. It wasn't superohmygod fabulous, but a very strong, Romeo/Juliet type of love story.
It was ok.
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I wasn't too happy about the ending? What happened to Ray Liotta's character? The cabana boy also looked like he was dead twice but he came back both times. Did Ralph Finnes' character live after Ray Liotta's character shot him? Ray Lotta's character shot his own wife and yet in the next scene, she's appearing very healthy and willing her lover to stay alive.
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You would still have my heart until the end of time.
I was mixed on this one... Liked it, but the ending did feel like it just dropped off.
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I think he survived and they were together after all was said and done... Why? Because of the dialogue at the end... It was like they were reminiscing - telling their story to us or a friend or family, etc.
Ray Liotta, though... Hard to say, but I think he was dead.
What? Ralph Fiennes wasn't in this movie.
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That's exactly the reason I enjoyed this film: "The chemistry between Fiennes and Mol was so intense." Great point!
I also thought Gretchen never looked lovelier in any film before or since. She seemed to have a glow throughout this movie.
HORRIBLE direction, so-so acting except for Liotta as he's always good.
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shareThis movie was so bad they should have confiscated everyone's SAG cards immediately upon completion. Fiennes has had one good film in his career and this ain't it, while Mol's "acting" is below MST3K standards but on par with her career. Liotta is a long way from Goodfellas and obviously took this one for the dough. I guess a thousand monkeys typing on a thousand typewriters can come up with something.....and here it is. I've seen better film on teeth.....
Clifford Stern...."Last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty"
I thought it was an okay movie but I had saved it on my dvr and when I read the synopsis, it sounded like it would be more action-y which is why I saved it. It turned out to be kind of a slow moving romance.
"You think you know, what you are, what's to come-You haven't even begun." BtVS
it doesn't deserve all the bad press.
i have to say, too, that i didn't see what all the hub-bub over gretchen mol was...until i saw this film. she is absolutely gorgeous in this film.
i like the open-ended conclusion, as well.
maybe the only problem i see with the film is how it tries to be both a romantic drama and a crime thriller. it's hard to work those two together successfully. certainly, schrader is a director who's capable of that (look at "taxi driver"- which he only wrote - or "light sleeper" - which he wrote and directed).
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I liked this movie, but knew right after I started watching it that it would get some bad reviews.
The opening is rather schmaltzy, but only to a current way of thinking and expectation -- if you instead thought of it in line with a 1940's/50's Lana Turner similar type of movie, it then frames the opening in a more positive light, IMHO, and lends a 'timeless' feel to the story as it unfolds -- a story of an ill-fated, star-crossed love, sprinkled with bits of The Count of Monte Cristo.
* The beach resort was magical.
* I loved the intense love-at-first-sight romance and the persistent following-of-the-heart despite all odds, by 'Alan'.
* I thought that Mol and Fiennes had some great on-screen chemistry going on.
* Mol's wardrobing was exquisite throughout the film. Her red dressy pants suit at the disco, her matching accessories, and that wonderful, huge parasol she walks along the beach under -- all divine!
* I think that Liotta could have pretty much phoned his performance in, but he wasn't given much to work with, so no harm, no foul.
* I had a hard time taking my eyes off of Fiennes as Alan -- a gorgeous man ;)
One problem I had, though, was as the story unveiled, I grew to not like the character of Ella as much. She gets her lover shot twice! Once when she reveals her affair to her seedy husband, which she does feel sorry about and over which does her own form of penance, but then later she tells Alan NOT to hurt her husband, and so her hubby is able to track them down and Alan gets shot AGAIN.
This movie is not everyone's cup of tea, but if you like a story of poignant, ill-fated romance with some revenge thrown in, and with some beautiful people with some beautiful wardrobing and some beautiful settings, cuddle up with this film on a Saturday night :)
"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than..a rude remark or a vulgar action" Blanche DuBois