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Excellent Movie

posted 17 years ago by [email protected]
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Just finished watching it and it is worth a look. I really like this movie. Great performances and interplay between two pros--Freeman and Cusak. A familiar story, but very well done and entertaining. You will enjoy it.

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[–] bmalone135 16 years ago

They couldn't possibly be serious. I mean if you didn't like the movie that means noone did, right? Who cares if someone you don't even know and will most likely never meet in real life liked a movie you didn't like. Does it affect you in any way? Do random people just randomly say they liked a movie you didn't like on street? No.

[–] kaneforgov 17 years ago

The families of cast and crew members have been posting positive comments about this disaster on this DB for a while.

[–] bobicabayo 11 years ago

Lol... Jajajaja. I didnt like it at all

[–] mel_0 17 years ago

You are clearly a moron. This movie was awful. It was not well done AT ALL and the acting sucked.

[–] djkidrich 17 years ago

You are entitled to your opinion, "chik" the name calling is of course the usual route people with your affliction resort to. I agree with the original poster that this was an excellent movie, I was entertained and interested in the characters and their destinies...

[–] qinkilla 17 years ago

Not an excellent movie. Not a good movie. Just a block of time visually camping and witnessing horrible writing...I think the acting is a direct result of the terrible script.

[–] bill-1439 17 years ago

Absolutely agree about the script. I had the same idea as another poster: with Cusack and Freeman how could I go wrong? As it turns out, horribly. Even those two talented veterans couldn't salvage this awful script.

Others have gone on about the many plot discontinuities and implausibilities. I think the worst aspect of the movie may have been the dialog. I was dumbfounded when I watched the interchange between Ray and Frank when Ray threatens Frank, something like:

Ray: "If you try anything I swear to Christ I'll blow your head off!"
Frank: "Are you a cop or something?"
Ray: "Used to be. I teach high school gym."
Frank: "Must be a rough high school."

I have no idea what Beresford was thinking when he directed that scene. As another poster pointed out, it looked like Jr. High drama class.

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[–] paddyaugust 17 years ago

Total garbage

watch tom berenger AND SIDNEY POITIER WAS DONE FAR BETTER AND MORE THRILLING
THIS IS BRUTAL

[–] SargantDerek 17 years ago

i thought the movie was great, how can you not like it?

[–] petangi 16 years ago

I was bemused why Morgan Freeman and John Cusack got involved in this. Poor fare indeed. I was teased into thinking the film would catch fire eventually and it let me down badly. Was that really the best ending they could have dreamed up?

[–] Token57 16 years ago

The script is absolutly awful! I wonder what triggers/switches been moved to make it finally released as a movie?
Simply count the production staff!
The end is really cheap. Example for a good open end: Body Snatchers (Donald Sutherland).
Or for a cool end: Shooter (Mark Wahlberg)

[–] paul-1201 17 years ago

Lol, this comment is almost as funny as the film.

By far the worst film I've seen for about 3 years.

[–] dougglosemeyer 17 years ago

definitely an awful movie from top to bottom.

[–] bill9340 17 years ago

Aren't writers supposed to establish character motive? Why wouldn't Cusack eventually just handcuff Freeman to a tree? At first they were worried the team would free Freeman & still hunt them down so they wouldn't tell anyone, but once a thousand cops are looking for them, wouldn't the team rescue Freeman, then get the hell out of the woods???

[–] sideburnwillie 17 years ago

I'm just glad this piece of kraup movie was a free exhange on my BB account.

Bad directing,editing,script, very predictable on the `twist'..wife made me finish this or I would've tunred it off halfway through..

NO dad would've don what CUsack did. PERIOD!

[–] TheGOLDENWALRUS 17 years ago

no

2006: 5)The Departed,4)Apocolypto, 3)Little Miss Sunshine, 2) The Illusionist, 1)Children of Men