jaltzner

This movie held me glued to my chair wanting to yell things like RUN!! or Shut that kid up! I was nervous and totally into the movie and the fear and suspense had me from beginning to end. Pierce Brosnan did a great job as well as Owen Wilson. It has been a long time since I was THAT into a movie. It was well worth the money I spent for the shear entertainment value. their was a little bit of a message in it straight from the book " Confessions of an economic Hit-man" that are true, people think that the United States is giving money away to foreign countries when all we are really doing is enslaving them to our corporate benefit,

My first impression of the movie was the dialog, and it seemed very unnatural as in normal people do not speak that way it seemed as if every conversation was contrived. Her son was overreacting and livid in an unnatural way, Helen Hunts Character was irritating which I think she wanted to be overbearing well she succeeded in that. Luke Wilson was a hollow character that did not serve much purpose but maybe he was not supposed to. Is this the way overeducated people speak? David Zayas from Dexter was in it as her driver and still not sure what his role was there for besides making painful quizzical faces. The whole movie seemed jumpy . disjointed. with conversations that seems out of place and over written. The only real part of the movie was the surf scenes which were quite accurate for learning surfers. Not sure what the aim of the movie was but with me as a viewer it missed the target.