Glock_Boy
Joined Jun 2008
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I didn't have the foggiest clue what this was about when I Plexed it on my Roku. I was quickly pulled in by the excellent performances throughout the film.
This is McConaughey's best performance of his career, in my estimation. You can not believe how sick he looks and solidly believable this was. It was hard to look at him in that condition - and the preparation for this movie must have been massive.
By now you know this is about the explosion of HIV and AIDS cases and the struggles of people trying to survive it against all odds and greedy Big Pharma.
The real jewel here is McConaughey's completely believable performances delivered with razor-like execution.
This one is a keeper and I guess I never knew what a great actor this guy is. Now I know.
Honestly, between this and Philadelphia - this wins by a long shot. It is gritty and rough around the edges and all-in-all great entertainment.
This is McConaughey's best performance of his career, in my estimation. You can not believe how sick he looks and solidly believable this was. It was hard to look at him in that condition - and the preparation for this movie must have been massive.
By now you know this is about the explosion of HIV and AIDS cases and the struggles of people trying to survive it against all odds and greedy Big Pharma.
The real jewel here is McConaughey's completely believable performances delivered with razor-like execution.
This one is a keeper and I guess I never knew what a great actor this guy is. Now I know.
Honestly, between this and Philadelphia - this wins by a long shot. It is gritty and rough around the edges and all-in-all great entertainment.
So my fam and I went into this movie hoping for a more adult version of Superman. I was hoping for new twists, better CGI, adult dialogue, mind-blowing cinematography, interesting characters, believable scenarios (within reason, of course), and something that generally would be more interesting than what we have been forced-fed in the past by Hollywood.
The movie started strong and quickly but quickly devolved into mind numbingly boring fight scenes that dragged on for what seemed like days.
Let's start with the length of the film. Far too long. You will catch yourself (and family) laughing every time you think it's about to end and it doesn't. It taunts you a second, third, fourth, and fifth time in very unamusing ways.
The characters are boring (well, except for maybe the dad).
There was so much potential with this story. There could have been a great apocalyptic moment of world wide survival against an enemy here in the flavor of The Walking Dead, but no such luck. We were treated instead to another long drawn out fight scene with the same CGI fight techniques used over and over hundreds of times.
By the end of the movie I was reading the paper instead of watching the TV. And I HATE reading the paper!!!
7.4 IMDb? Really? This rating system is seriously flawed.
The movie started strong and quickly but quickly devolved into mind numbingly boring fight scenes that dragged on for what seemed like days.
Let's start with the length of the film. Far too long. You will catch yourself (and family) laughing every time you think it's about to end and it doesn't. It taunts you a second, third, fourth, and fifth time in very unamusing ways.
The characters are boring (well, except for maybe the dad).
There was so much potential with this story. There could have been a great apocalyptic moment of world wide survival against an enemy here in the flavor of The Walking Dead, but no such luck. We were treated instead to another long drawn out fight scene with the same CGI fight techniques used over and over hundreds of times.
By the end of the movie I was reading the paper instead of watching the TV. And I HATE reading the paper!!!
7.4 IMDb? Really? This rating system is seriously flawed.