Avaliações de phil_gee

Good mystery with a very compelling final 1/3 of the movie. Some of the actors were very good, including Heather Michelle and the fellow who played Jordan, but a couple of others gave inconsistent performances.

The longest 90-minute movie you may ever see. A blatant money-grab, with no redeeming social value. As far as sequels go, Godfather 2 should not feel threatened. This turd gets a two rating rather than a one because I chuckled briefly a few times before I bailed to escape the pain.

The screenwriters stuffed this baby with a championship surplus of agonizingly transparent plot "twists," wildly implausible events, and trite dialogue. And, just when you think it's coming to an end, it continues...on and on. Trips from America to Australia appear to take less time.

The money shamelessly generated by the mercenary producers and actors of this stink bomb contributes to giving capitalism a bad name. Rating of 10 for AVOID.

There must be another movie, in an alternate universe, that inspired all of the gushing reviews, both professional and consumer. The version I saw, however, was numbing.

The music was awful -- the kinds of tunes from the 1960s that never made it out of that decade, and for good reason: Bland, tuneless, masturbatory self-indulgence for the songwriter and performer, but torturous listening for the rest of us. Unfortunately, the Coens saw fit to showcase several of these masterpieces, in their entirety. That alone could send you to the bathroom to escape.

But, there was more (or less): An incredibly banal and tedious script, and acting that couldn't rise above it.

I went back to the snack bar for another quart of Diet Coke so I could stay awake while I waited for something to happen. The only thing that happened, though, was the Diet Coke.

Avoid.

I kept watching based on the good reviews here. I was suckered.

This movie is simply a standard stab/gore bloodfest with a "twist" that is minor at best, and stupid at worst. To elevate this flick to anything more would be to misrepresent it as, apparently, many reviewers here have done.

Is it oh-so-totally cool to have a standard horror movie with maybe two or three smart lines of dialogue? I guess so, but that's not quite enough for me.

I did enjoy the prancings of the sexy young blonde. That's mostly standard for this type of movie, too, though.

I was ready to turn this off literally two minutes after it started with sustained, frenetic, non-real-life pacing. But, my wife and daughter wouldn't let me. It calms down after maybe ten minutes -- perhaps the director took a Xanax -- but it gets stupidly frenetic at other times throughout. The biggest issue is that it drags; this movie could have been done easily in 85 minutes. Perhaps the director got paid by the frame.

The characters are just OK, though the storyline was at least a bit unusual (dealing with the illness of one of the leads). Jake G played a wise guy and BS artist -- never really likable -- and Anne Hathaway's character alternated between lovely/sympathetic and mousy/neurotic (though she does have a good reason for her neuroses).

In sum, a decent diversion that doesn't need to be paused if you have to go to the bathroom.

A flat, unimaginative script is the main killer for this numbing chick flick, but not the only culprit. This appears to be a team effort by the director, writer and actors. I stuck with it because my wife likes to watch movies until the end; since I love harmony with my wife, I forced myself to stay awake.

Hallmark Channel seems to be known for sappy flicks -- and sappy flicks have their place -- but this piece of junk would have been better as a high school film project (viewed by a few dozen people).

There was, perhaps, one clever line in the entire movie, though I can't recall it now. The lead characters were generic and boring, the plot was oh-so-predictable, and the score was incredibly annoying and ridiculous.

The key positive was that it was over in less than 90 minutes.