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If Jim HAD got the job with Homeland Security and gone to Colombia...

posted 13 years ago by Eric-1226
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...that would have made for a damned interesting movie in its own right, don't ya think? I mean, I would love to see a movie based on a guy (like Jim, sorta messed up with lots of skeletons in his closet) having a hard time getting accepted for employment by Homeland Security, but then somehow "breaking in" by the skin of his teeth. Then he gets sent to some foreign drug zone to carry out various black-op missions like the ones that guy (Gillespie?) told him about. Oh, and toss in lots of those incredibly beautiful Colombian women like the guy was telling Jim about.

[–] dhmason6155 13 years ago

Yes, it would be a good movie in it's own right, but probably just another standard action flick. That would miss the point of this movie, which is about Jim Davis coming back to the streets of his youth and not being able to adjust.

Unc John "We makin' trouble?"
Stacy "Yeah"
Unc John "What kind?"
Stacy "...The forever kind"

[–] Eric-1226 13 years ago

I see your point, that's usually the way those action flicks pan out. But it would be nice if such a movie were ever made, that it maintained the theme of Jim's isolation and other mental stresses he was going through, as he did his work for HS. Well, one can only dream...

[–] dhmason6155 13 years ago

Actually you may have someting: Jim Davis, Homeland Security Agent/Ticking Time Bomb. The latter absolutely applies to him. I don't think it was an accident that the LAPD rejected him because he was mentally unstable, but HS accepted him in a NY second.

Speaking of continuing themes, the actors who played Letty and Moreno in Training Day, played Letty and "Flaco" in this movie. Why did they change Moreno's name to Flaco? It would have been cool if that had carried on as a continuing thread, with them becoming an item.

Unc John "We makin' trouble?"
Stacy "Yeah"
Unc John "What kind?"
Stacy "...The forever kind"