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Yes, cable TV has raised the bar for dramas so high no network show can come close. The Blacklist is good, but falls short. This show is as good and possibly better. If you've watched Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Six Feet Under, The Wire, well the character development and writing is clearly for network TV. This isn't the fault of the actors. Juliette Lewis was a stretch for me playing the same role she always does, but hey, so does De Niro right?
I really liked the show and Josh Lucas is money...excellent lead. He carries the show well. Where this show blew it is character development. The wife as a school teacher who seems always free to get involved in the cases. Really? They did not need this angle. The daughter is an excellent actress. Believable from scene one. This show could have been really good, but network TV wants to fail. This is classic pride before the fall. They will not give up their power and control to make a really good TV show and settle for mediocrity. This ain't 1985 anymore. They cannot get away with the A-Team type shows...we have reality TV for that now!
I really liked the show and Josh Lucas is money...excellent lead. He carries the show well. Where this show blew it is character development. The wife as a school teacher who seems always free to get involved in the cases. Really? They did not need this angle. The daughter is an excellent actress. Believable from scene one. This show could have been really good, but network TV wants to fail. This is classic pride before the fall. They will not give up their power and control to make a really good TV show and settle for mediocrity. This ain't 1985 anymore. They cannot get away with the A-Team type shows...we have reality TV for that now!
Hollywood does get it right now and then, and this is a movie that hit it's mark. Ironic, so few know about it. Why is this? It has no CGI and pandering language and adult situations. It is just a real movie acted superbly led by Kevin Bacon. Bacon is $$ in this role. There is never a doubt he is 100% his character. Reminded me a little of his role in A Few Good Men.
American Sniper was good, this is better. Director Ross Katz was brilliant. The simplest movies are the most challenging. He never played too many notes or got his own merit in the way. Ridley Scott could not have made this movie. Michael Strobl's screenplay had the same maturity. What a blessing to know your written work was taken so seriously and handled so well by both the actors and movie making team, producing cinematic magic in this one!
You will turn off the DVD player and feel dignified. No empty, cotton candy feeling here. This is a deeply penetrating movie and yet not so deep and dark it is disturbing. One of my favorite scenes is watching the young boy scouts holding flags during the honor parade. These little boys are becoming men as they take part in something so much greater than their own lives. Powerful moment and so needed in our shallow, pornographic culture.
American Sniper was good, this is better. Director Ross Katz was brilliant. The simplest movies are the most challenging. He never played too many notes or got his own merit in the way. Ridley Scott could not have made this movie. Michael Strobl's screenplay had the same maturity. What a blessing to know your written work was taken so seriously and handled so well by both the actors and movie making team, producing cinematic magic in this one!
You will turn off the DVD player and feel dignified. No empty, cotton candy feeling here. This is a deeply penetrating movie and yet not so deep and dark it is disturbing. One of my favorite scenes is watching the young boy scouts holding flags during the honor parade. These little boys are becoming men as they take part in something so much greater than their own lives. Powerful moment and so needed in our shallow, pornographic culture.
I'm not sure which is more disturbing, how bad this movie was or those who rated it above 1 star. There can only be one reason for this. Medical marijuana. They were all stoned out of their minds or 15yo boys
but even kids have seen enough movies by that age to know better. A Lifetime movie of the week looks like cinematic magic compared to this sad tale of an aging star looking for one more round of glory. Knowing the insecurity of TC, clearly he hired writers to come into IMDb and write reviews for probably 500 a pop. No drug could impair someone to write such dribble like, "Cruise is back on top" or "Best action movie ever." Only TC would think 22yo women are ga-ga over his character as a 50yo actor! I kept thinking to myself, what are these women drooling over as Cruise walks into a bar or restaurant? He isn't 30 anymore! He is as old as these girls' father! Just pathetic.
Seriously this is a BAD movie! Very bad movie. Bad. Bad. Bad. There is no excuse for this kind of thing. We have over 80 years of filmmaking behind our belts. If you rent any film noir movie from the 40's it is 100x better than this movie. If you rent the TV series Mission Impossible from the 60's, select any episode that was written and filmed in about 10 days it will be 100x better than this movie. Go watch an episode of Everyone Loves Raymond and it will be better than this movie. Pet your dog and you will have more satisfaction. Did I mention how bad this movie was and is? This movie reflects the arrogance and death of Tom Cruise. Only someone who had this amount of control over a movie could screw it up so badly. If this was a TV series, then it might be acceptable because in a TV series you don't have to create character plots and build believability. This movie acts like we all know the relationships between key characters. They just "get into it" and it does not work. You have to really have a good script and performances to pull that off that ain't happening here. Any episode of Kojak from 1974 makes more sense than this movie and that is from someone who has never seen Kojak! This movie makes the same leap of faith that the amazing performance of Tommy C will transport you to movie nirvana. Tom word out it ain't 1995. You're proverbial star has burned out. The couch jumping and crazy CScience crap only made you less marketable. Heck, I thought War of the Worlds was bad and that was the beginning of the end for you bud.
I have not read any of Child's books and thought at first the badness of this movie (I want to keep writing the word bad) was because the Tom Cruise fire has burned out significantly over the past few years. That had to be it right? Maybe it was the fact that Rosamund Pike who looked to hot in Fracture back in 2007 aged so much? She was 5 months pregnant with her son Solo when she completed filming this piece of crap. Why hire a pregnant woman in an action movie? Maybe it was the terrible acting and writing? I figured this nightmare of a bad movie was going to kick in gear. It did not. It got worse! Tom Cruise is dead. His career is over. He had a good 25 year run. Made way too much money and seems like a pretty sad guy who can't admit he has a problem. Tom you're 50 years old. It's over dude. Go fly your planes and read some L. Ron on the toilet. Wait you will bleed MI movies into the ground. Why? They suck as well. Just let it go TC and go back to your birth name, stop dying your hair, fix that huge nose and read a book.
With the cable TV shows from HBO and others making most movies seem blah, Tommy's bad acting is now really exposed. I do not see this guy gaining any new ground as an older actor. He doesn't have the appeal. When you tried so hard to be a serious actor and your fire burns out, you have no place to go. Stallone created a caricature of himself in The Expendables. What does Tom do in 2020, make a spoof of Jerry Maguire? How about an updated version of Top Gun where TC plays grandpa of his hot shot grandson? In case I wasn't clear this movie is HORRIBLE!!!!
Seriously this is a BAD movie! Very bad movie. Bad. Bad. Bad. There is no excuse for this kind of thing. We have over 80 years of filmmaking behind our belts. If you rent any film noir movie from the 40's it is 100x better than this movie. If you rent the TV series Mission Impossible from the 60's, select any episode that was written and filmed in about 10 days it will be 100x better than this movie. Go watch an episode of Everyone Loves Raymond and it will be better than this movie. Pet your dog and you will have more satisfaction. Did I mention how bad this movie was and is? This movie reflects the arrogance and death of Tom Cruise. Only someone who had this amount of control over a movie could screw it up so badly. If this was a TV series, then it might be acceptable because in a TV series you don't have to create character plots and build believability. This movie acts like we all know the relationships between key characters. They just "get into it" and it does not work. You have to really have a good script and performances to pull that off that ain't happening here. Any episode of Kojak from 1974 makes more sense than this movie and that is from someone who has never seen Kojak! This movie makes the same leap of faith that the amazing performance of Tommy C will transport you to movie nirvana. Tom word out it ain't 1995. You're proverbial star has burned out. The couch jumping and crazy CScience crap only made you less marketable. Heck, I thought War of the Worlds was bad and that was the beginning of the end for you bud.
I have not read any of Child's books and thought at first the badness of this movie (I want to keep writing the word bad) was because the Tom Cruise fire has burned out significantly over the past few years. That had to be it right? Maybe it was the fact that Rosamund Pike who looked to hot in Fracture back in 2007 aged so much? She was 5 months pregnant with her son Solo when she completed filming this piece of crap. Why hire a pregnant woman in an action movie? Maybe it was the terrible acting and writing? I figured this nightmare of a bad movie was going to kick in gear. It did not. It got worse! Tom Cruise is dead. His career is over. He had a good 25 year run. Made way too much money and seems like a pretty sad guy who can't admit he has a problem. Tom you're 50 years old. It's over dude. Go fly your planes and read some L. Ron on the toilet. Wait you will bleed MI movies into the ground. Why? They suck as well. Just let it go TC and go back to your birth name, stop dying your hair, fix that huge nose and read a book.
With the cable TV shows from HBO and others making most movies seem blah, Tommy's bad acting is now really exposed. I do not see this guy gaining any new ground as an older actor. He doesn't have the appeal. When you tried so hard to be a serious actor and your fire burns out, you have no place to go. Stallone created a caricature of himself in The Expendables. What does Tom do in 2020, make a spoof of Jerry Maguire? How about an updated version of Top Gun where TC plays grandpa of his hot shot grandson? In case I wasn't clear this movie is HORRIBLE!!!!