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AngylBelle
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*SweetBella, do you even need to ask if I saw it? 
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Eh, it was ok...
I liked Aniston in a role other than ditzy girl next door, but the story itself didn't do anything for me.
*Eh, it was ok...
I liked Aniston in a role other than ditzy girl next door, but the story itself didn't do anything for me.
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zoziw
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SweetBella said:
***Possible Spoilers***
It was a formula movie but reasonably well written and acted with a nice foreshadow early on which doesn't live up to its billing. Clive Owen did a good job as did Vincent Cassel.
Jennifer Aniston's supporting role in this film doesn't capitalize on her current tabloid stardom, her Friends base or prove that she has any kind of range as an actress beyond what she already accomplished with "The Good Girl".
Of course, it isn't like this is a memorable film for Clive Owen's career either. It almost seems like both signed on to this flick to pay the bills rather than grow as actors (or increase their value in Hollywood).
Giancarlo Esposito as Detective Church was just plain awful. His acting was bad and the character was poorly written.
I thought the use of lighting to visualize internal emotion was effective, especially at the end of the second meeting on the train between Charles and Lucinda where the lights and shadows of pulling into the train station fall on Charles' face creating a visual image of his realization that his lust for her will likely be fulfilled and projecting the conflicting impulses he is feeling about it.
This is one of those movies where they dig the protaganist so deep in the second act that it becomes difficult to get him out while staying within the reality of the movie (ie. I just didn't buy into him getting that briefcase back at the end...too quick and tidy for this kind of a flick).
There is also a denouement after the climax that, while not overly long, was unnecessary and kind of annoying. Yes, if it wasn't there I would be complaining about why the shiv was introduced in the first place, but, I am going to ask anyways why the shiv was introduced and how that co-worker smuggled it out of prison...or even why he would.
Get rid of the shiv and the denouement and ramp up the emotion around the defeat of the antagonist in the climax and you would have a better movie.
This movie is a standard thriller based on a tried and true formula that, after about an hour, will have you saying "I've been here before in other movies".
It's not a bad movie but it doesn't do anything for anybody involved with it and doesn't move the genre forward at all. If Harry Potter is sold out, you don't like Johnny Cash or you are just in the mood for something a little off kilter than you might consider this movie.
*** out of *****
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thanks for the review zoziw... I'll be sure to see HP a second time and Walk the Line before seeing Derailed ... ok I may not get to see it in the theatres 'cuz from here until a loooong time from now there's tons of movies coming out that I definitely wanna see...
... ok I may not get to see it in the theatres 'cuz from here until a loooong time from now there's tons of movies coming out that I definitely wanna see...
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I watched them both (anniston and owen) on larry king live last night,it doesn't look worth the movie line for me.I'll wait until it's on dish net. It's just another relationship woe film..
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SweetBella said:
The reviews I read on Amazon dismayed me, but usually you can count on a cross section of opinions there. So we decided not to go last weekend although I do like Jennifer Annison and some of her films and, of course, her part in Friends--T.V. series. From what I am reading here it looks like we didn't miss much. :o
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