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The subplots kill it


I didn't mind the "quiet nature" of this film. I'm OK with the fact that there were no high speed car chases, no creepy music, no bodies being slashed. I liked that the movie was simply a matter of the detectives working together against a ticking clock.

However, I felt the subplots took too much away from the main story. The ill wife? Snore. The bickering between 'veteran' cop and 'rookie'? We've seen that a hundred times before.

For a movie that was only 90 minutes long, I would have preferred more focus on the main story.


Here's my full review if you want to read more of my thoughts:
http://www.epinions.com/review/Endure_epi/content_590714801796

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Couldn't agree more.. the scenes with the dying wife are worse than those in a soap opera. Except in those, at least there's some sort of believable emotion being portrayed. I can't believe any of the seasoned, although b, actors agreed to do this movie

Appropriately named.. Endure was what I had to do to get through this P.O.S.

And the weird giant mustache on Judd Nelson.. why?

Last word freak. - Melvin Udall, As Good As It Gets

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I watched this film last night. My first question was "who was that woman in the bed and why"? It slowly came out that she was the Judd Nelson character's wife. I never really understood what was wrong with her except that she had something wrong with her heart. Do people have trouble understanding medical terminology? But, my next problem was "how annoying are those cell phones that keep ringing"?

So, I'm with you LadyConsumer and chelle-35, the subplots killed the movie for me too.

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I agree. That's exactly what I was thinking. The investigation part of it was pretty good, but the whole subplot thing with the sick wife seemed tedious and unecessary.

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The only reason I watched this movie was because of Joey Lauren Adams, and she did not have enough worthwhile material to make the movie worthwhile for me.

The purpose of the wife sub-plot was to make the story long enough to qualify as a movie. Otherwise it would only be long enough for a TV series episode.

I agree that the "bickering" was distracting. I think it is a symptom of bad writing, it is much easier to write stories with bickering than it is to write them showing teamwork and cooperation.

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Sometimes I wonder what kinds of films people are looking for exactly.

I had absolutely no problem with the subplots, thought they were well balanced with the main plot. I actually found that they enhanced the story line.

I guess I must be crazy or something.

I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. Of course, I'm not really a thriller or suspense fan. I've also never been a fan of police/medical dramas, so I thought the subplots gave the entire film a humanistic perspective. We forget that detectives, doctors, police officers are people too, dealing with their own problems.



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