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Gracia L. Babbidge
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 709
From: Bowdoin, Maine
Registered: Aug 2000

posted 09-09-2000 06:25 AM

I hadn't intended to see this one, as I was not expecting it to be worth the time to sit down and view it. However, I am required to see to it that all prints at our theater are run at least once before being shown to the public.
I had intended to only watch the previews, and the first few minutes, then periodically check back on the film, and I never got up until the credits were on! It actually managed to catch and hold my interest.

Was it an outstanding film?
No.
But it was a lot more interesting and enjoyable than finishing up my other 'Thursday tasks' for that shift... i.e. breaking down "Gone In 60 Seconds"

~GLB

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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays

Posts: 5246
From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 09-09-2000 03:48 PM

Okay, so what's this picture about? Sounds like a Western.

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Steve Scott
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1300
From: Minneapolis, MN
Registered: Sep 2000

posted 10-14-2000 06:35 PM

I am a huge fan of the ultraviolent genre, and this movie didn't do that badly for me. I thought that the way the filmmakers simply jumped into the lives of Parker and Longbaugh was a good way to start the movie. That was alos how the following fifteen minutes seemed to progress: simply jumping in at a point.
A lot of the scenes that follow don't seem to have any cohereance on that point, and the characters are rather underdeveloped.
As the complex plot of a misunderstood kidnapping unfolds, I found myself more and more disoriented with the complex plot that they tried to insert in breaks in the violence.
In fact, the only thing that anchors the movie is violence! The shootout finale seems to catch the eye of most people I talk to, as does the the ending that could have seemingly been more than it was.

I'm hesitant to give a lot of details of the plot, only that it involves the kidnapping of a pregnant woman who is a surrogate mother for a rich family. The other characters include the OB/GYN who is more than he seems, the bodyguards who are more than they seem, and the rich wife who is more than she seems. With all of these larger than expected character profiles, the movie starts to get overinflated, except for Benicio Del Toro and James Cann, who seem to have the perfect crime relationship (don't trust each other).

I would say see it, if only for the epic gunplay and to give the thick plot a chance.

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John Wilson
Film God

Posts: 5438
From: Sydney, Australia.
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 10-15-2000 01:38 AM

I guess that means it's not a western then.

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Steve Scott
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1300
From: Minneapolis, MN
Registered: Sep 2000

posted 10-29-2000 03:07 PM

Sorry to disapoint you.

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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays

Posts: 5246
From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 11-20-2000 09:28 PM

John:

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Adam Martin
I'm not even gonna point out the irony.

Posts: 3686
From: Dallas, TX
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 05-27-2001 02:23 AM

Finally caught this one on DVD. Nothing extra special about the disc, though.

El Mariachi meets Excess Baggage with a dash of Pulp Fiction. All from the man who brought you The Usual Suspects.

3 out of 5. Worth watching.

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