Based on the best-selling novel by James Siegel (No wonder this film is so well written and scripted). It’s a real edge of your seat thriller, very much like Hitchcocks films in the past, it builds the tension throughout with some terrific plot twists, some obvious and some not so.
If you needed milk and you needed it fast you wouldn’t want it delivered strapped to the back of a one legged tortoise. If you want action and thrills delivered at a breath taking pace look elsewhere.
Robert De Niro directs and Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, William Hurt, John Turturro, Timothy Hutton, Robert De Niro, Alec Baldwin & Billy Crudup all act in this one. I use act in a very loose sense, as it’s not a very interesting film, it glugs along like a farmer wading through treacle with welly boots on. Read the rest of this entry »
If you can imagine an episode of the X-files where time flips backwards and forwards during a week to different days of that week and different events, then that pretty much sums up this film. It tries to build suspense, but seems to fail, why? Well mainly I think because the acting isn’t up to scratch, it’s more a made for TV, straight to DVD type film. Which I feel probably came into the public consciousness because of a large marketing budget (I know I was certainly aware of it before its release).
This is a by the numbers, walk in the park, average thriller. Bruce Willis sleep walks through his role barely acting at all, as does Halle Berry who isn’t very convincing in the role she plays, mostly she just tries to look sexy and struts around. Giovanni Ribisi is the only sparkle in all this drabness. Read the rest of this entry »
Mr Brooks stars Kevin Costner and Demi Moore and is very much a throwback to the 80’s style of suspense movie. Mr Costner talks to his alter ego played (quite well) by William Hurt and fights with his inner conscience about whether to commit another ‘Thumb Print’ killing. Read the rest of this entry »
