dotmanish
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There's one complaint I've against this movie - it didn't do justice to a whole load of potential stories that could be developed. The story of a man who's stretched between his love for playing football (the 500th match) and his love for his wife. The story of a man whose crush became his step-mother.
The one good thing in this movie is the chemistry between Cass, Kate, and Adam. There's this bond between Kate and Adam that has been played perfectly in the movie, and they have not gone overboard with it.
Overall, nothing great about the movie, though you may smile at the little hilarious scenes here and there. If you could avoid it, you wouldn't miss a thing.
The one good thing in this movie is the chemistry between Cass, Kate, and Adam. There's this bond between Kate and Adam that has been played perfectly in the movie, and they have not gone overboard with it.
Overall, nothing great about the movie, though you may smile at the little hilarious scenes here and there. If you could avoid it, you wouldn't miss a thing.
Arrrggghhh...here are my first impressions of the movie:
1. Action-packed - yes. But too much of it. 2. Slow pace - too much footage to show little real script progress. 3. Doesn't look real at all. OK, I know it's a movie. It's fiction. But hey, too many coincides and Good Luck on part of the military officer and park ranger. 4. Stretched out sequences. Seriously, the train sequence could have been shrunk to 7 minutes and nobody would've shed a tear. But hey, they stretched out the sequence to such a long one that it becomes boring.
You can avoid the movie and you won't miss a thing. I guess I had set my expectations too high from this John Woo movie.
1. Action-packed - yes. But too much of it. 2. Slow pace - too much footage to show little real script progress. 3. Doesn't look real at all. OK, I know it's a movie. It's fiction. But hey, too many coincides and Good Luck on part of the military officer and park ranger. 4. Stretched out sequences. Seriously, the train sequence could have been shrunk to 7 minutes and nobody would've shed a tear. But hey, they stretched out the sequence to such a long one that it becomes boring.
You can avoid the movie and you won't miss a thing. I guess I had set my expectations too high from this John Woo movie.
This could have been a brilliant movie, if the storyline was well-executed. I expected it to be a slower-than-usual movie, albeit one which would show many shades of the character Arnold (played by Dafoe). The other characters didn't get anything to do in this movie (I blame it on whoever wrote the screenplay, and the one who directed it). Dafoe's character could have been made more complex (which he really was, but the movie failed to show that) to make the movie more interesting.
Of course, as one of the comments in the boards mentioned, it's a movie which they tried to make complex so that users could feel intelligent when watching it. I think they failed miserably at even trying to make it complex, leave alone anything else. Dafoe's talent was way underutilized in this movie.
Of course, as one of the comments in the boards mentioned, it's a movie which they tried to make complex so that users could feel intelligent when watching it. I think they failed miserably at even trying to make it complex, leave alone anything else. Dafoe's talent was way underutilized in this movie.