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Charles Burmeister should be crucified !!!


To call this talentless jerk a "writer" or a "director" is an insult to the film profession as a whole. Some of them do have talent, you know. Whoever this fricking Burmiester is, he should not be doing anything else for his miserable life than flip burgers at the burger joint in Echo Park.

Only in Hollywood could something this hideously bad be even "produced." In New York, they would tar and feather you for it. And wtf with "Kilmer Films?" Is this now another over-the-hill actor who suddenly convinced himself that he is going to be the next Clint Eastwood and his Malpaso Company? Lightining ain't gonna strike twice, Buddy.

I got this ultra low budget garbage at my local library for FREE, but I am still going to be making a racket when I return it tomorrow. Why did they even buy this dud? I guess they can't watch all the movies that come out...

I watched the first 50 minutes of it, and basically, all I saw in that time is Kilmer phoning a bunch of characters from an LA park in which he seems to be the only white jerk. He must have called someone like 25 times in 50 minutes. The split screen technique got boring by minute 10. The camera guy seems to have epilepsy. One never knew if a scene was supposed to be in the past, future, or in the Twilight Zone. Mostly the Twilight Zone.

The black kid co-starring with Kilmer was not too good, either. But I guess this is what you get for free in a city park.

The DVD has a trailer on it called "Warbirds." That turkey makes "Colombus Day" look like an Academy Award contender.

All in all, "Columbus Day" is so bad, you will wish America was never discovered.

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I have to completely agree with your comment! I was shocked and in dismay, and hating myself for renting another *beep* hollywood movie. Recently, no matter if low budget or higher- high budget, they have been so damn frustrating in so many different ways. We need another novelle vague...

There was no tension whatsoever, no development, no characters, no nothing. One of the very very very few terrible movies i started to skip through, cause i knew it wouldnt get better at all...

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This movie is quite ambitious but fails becuase it is not ambitious enough in the end. I watched it becuase i'm always interested to see what Kilmer is doing and i liked the last film (Felon) of his that i saw. It tells most of the story in one location and through a series of flashbacks. I say most becuse the initial sequence is that of the end of a hiest. The location is Echo Park in LA. I say 'most of the movie' and that is where it went wrong for me.. the whole story could have been told in flashbacks ...how much more mysterious could it have been if it had started in the park...and unknown man in a raincoat with a briefcase in a park and gradually peelled back the layers of the story.

There appears to be some disappointment with the 'pace' of the film. Well that's becuase it's not a hiest movie. It's about a man who on one day looks back on the whole of his life and belives that he can repair the damage that he has caused, but who also interacts with others, some strangers, and how he affects their lives on that particular day. For that type of movie it is beautifully paced.

The misunderstanding about what type of film this is is probably caused by the action sequence at the beginning and the expectations of the movie could have been set more realisticly by showing that sequence in flashbacks later in the film.

Even so this is a good film with some good performances. The small twist/reveal is telegraphed well in advance...just listen to the telephone conversations. But this doesn't harm the movie because the reveal just resolved something that had been nagging at me since the begining of the Park sequence. It has some nice ideas and good performances...just don't expect lots of fast paced action and Bayification!

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