La mort en sursis

A very sexist movie about a weak male character and a pretty female character that strangely tries to have sex with him all the time... It goes no further that that. Its all about them in the car talking bad dialogues that claim to be deep and dark but they're really just bad written. Didn't get to the end. Waste of good actors!

This is the story of a very troubled man who, on his way out of prison is asked to kill someone for a decent amount of money. He meets a sweet beautiful girl who "takes him in", no questions asked; trust at first sight. Yet this story revolves around the job he has at hand, the baggage that he's been carrying around making him sour, pissy, and defensive all the time, the girl who keeps trying to calm him down, relax him, cheer him up, and get him into bed with her, to no avail.

This movie is very slow, somewhat confusing at times, and very, very dull. I had nothing, I mean, Nothing better to do when I started watching it, yet I could not stay through to the end, and I have seen my share of bad movies in my time. I did not want to believe the 3.7 rating it has considering the actors, but now I understand it. "Tomorrow You're Gone"... I was gone less than an hour into it.

I've wondering myself what's hell Willem Dafoe accepted be casting of this dull picture, the premise was factually auspicious, when the convict Charlie Rankin (Stephen Dorff) is about to be release receives an encode letter to kill someone under the order of the Buddha (Willem Dafoe) in advance he already receives a large amount of money and the gun for his bold assignment, he has an strange behavior as lone wolf, no friends, no connection to outside world at Cleveland, until meets occasionally a gorgeous girl florence (Michelle Monogham) on a bus, hereinafter she and Charlie spend a night just for sex, in next day he ought kill Chaney (Ken Rossall), he did with extreme difficult but unluckily Chaney has a guest blonde woman at house, this unexpected event he has to struggles with the woman, tied her and left him alive at closet, he believes that she doesn't recognized him, afterwards the movie enters in a merry-go-round limbo, with pointless stuffs, became slow paced and even boring, until Buddha appears and demands a clean job, the final is average and unpredictable as well, but overall is a weak thriller, the main character seemingly is absence, your dialogues are senseless also he is aimless, lacklustre proposal!!

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First watch: 2020 / How many: 1 / Source: Blu-Ray / Rating: 5

Charlie Rankin (Stephen Dorff), recently released from prison, seeks vengeance for his jail-house mentor William "The Buddha" Pettigrew (Willem Dafoe). Along the way, he meets the ethereal, yet streetwise, Florence Jane. They embark on a unlikely road trip, careening towards an unlikely redemption and uncertain resolution.

Although this film had many good moments (such as the home invasion) and it is possibly Dorff's final acting to date (he has really blossomed in this role) it overall just seems too uneven and did not resonate well with me.

The primary problem I had was with Florence. She was not someone I felt the audience could understand or appreciate. Why did Rankin like her? Their whole relationship is built on nothing. And yes, I understand this is a whimsical road trip without commitment... but she was just the wrong character for such a thing.

And if there was a deeper message, I missed it. All that occurred to me is that Charlie Rankin has the same name as the Nazi in Orson Welles' "The Stranger". I sincerely doubt this was intentional, because trying to draw parallels is far too difficult -- Welles' Rankin is a false identity hiding from his criminal past. Rankin is this film uses the alias Samson and he, too, has a criminal past he cannot overcome. But that is it (and only works in the most vague way).

The novel probably clears things up, but after seeing the film I have little motivation to seek it out.

(2013) Tomorrow You're Gone PSYCHOLOGICAL CRIME DRAMA

I don't know, my interpretation is different than the synopsis on imdb.com: "Charlie Rankin, recently released from prison, seeks vengeance for his jail-house mentor William "The Buddha" Pettigrew. Along the way, he meets the ethereal, yet streetwise, Florence Jane. They embark on a unlikely road trip, careening towards an unlikely redemption and uncertain resolution." I thought I watched this movie carefully on all the parts that mattered, and to me anyway, the William Dafoe character wasn't addressed any name whatsoever, but according to imdb.com, Dafoe was the Buddha character when he could've been just another man sent by Buddha who was still in prison. Anyways, the tone is similar to another one of those Quentin Tarantino inspiration movies which the characters are not really sympathized until the end. Stephen Dorff plays Charlie Rankin who's just got out of prison. Once let out, he's then handed a key to open up to a locker and then assassinate someone for a specific amount of money- I suspect, it's either Buddha's lawyer or is it the judge that convicted Buddha to the slammer. At the same time, Charlie's getting all of these relapses and paranoid delusions, about what's going to happen to him, for he's very sensitive to noise. The other thing about Charlie is that he can't seem to eat regularly- and acts like he's always on medication even though there's no indication that he's a junkie. Before the hit were to happen, he then bumps with an attractive girl named Florence (Michelle Monaghan) on a bus stop and can't seem to love her back. While Charlie at first doesn't seem to have a soul or a conscience, he is struggling to have one as long as he spends more time with Florence. The acting is exceptional, but it contains nothing new to the genre at all.