hiroyukiwu
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easily the worst film released in its respective year.
a complete rip off from 24, al looking silly with his goatee and completely out of whack in this film.
everything is contrived from the fact al's character has a huge amount of wealth and resource available to him, nothing stretching for a top Hollywood actor, poor film, and the music and soundtrack....horrible barely any fade outs, far too loud, misplace, poorly produced like listening to Satan pulling his eye out whilst sitting on the crapper, the film sucked and the music is THE worst i have ever been subjected to from a film.
a complete rip off from 24, al looking silly with his goatee and completely out of whack in this film.
everything is contrived from the fact al's character has a huge amount of wealth and resource available to him, nothing stretching for a top Hollywood actor, poor film, and the music and soundtrack....horrible barely any fade outs, far too loud, misplace, poorly produced like listening to Satan pulling his eye out whilst sitting on the crapper, the film sucked and the music is THE worst i have ever been subjected to from a film.
two detectives, 'buster'Elmer C. Robinson (travolta) and Charles Hildebrandt (gandolfini) hunt two killers Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez played by salma hayek and jared leto.
basically the story is of two policemen chasing after two killers who, by posing as a single man and sister, enlist in finding their victims through the lonely hearts columns within newspapers and magazines.
on the acting side we'll start with the policemen first, travolta as essentially the lead cop in this movie is a somewhat torn man in his duty as a cop and in the loss of his wife, travolta soon finds a new lease,to speak of, by trying to capture the two killers, he is helped in this matter by gandolfini as his straight thinking,talking friend, but though the acting between the two is of an OK standing (gandolfini coming off stronger) the pairing doesn't come off as one would hope and it is slightly stale, more so within their dialog together.
the hunted pair,hayek and leto, have a better chemistry, despite what many have seen of hayek in this film, being wooden and poorly acted out, i'd give her a little more credit than the naysayers, mainly because the person she is portraying is of that type of person, soulless and wholeheartedly callous. her dominance shows through in her interpretation of a jealous and highly possessive person. but the real star who shines in this movie is leto, from his smile right down to the unsteadiness of his actions, movements,gestures are perfect and really shows us what his is capable of, could well be we are witnessing him in his prime, his ending is very well shot (credit to the director there, Todd Robinson).
a long and somewhat violent film, yet it leaves enough subject for conversation and reply value. in terms of what director robinson has achieve,well thats not much, mainly a wasted cast on a somewhat unfair choice in director (The director's grandfather was Elmer C. Robinson, the cop who investigated the Lonely Hearts murders). but still a film to watch.
basically the story is of two policemen chasing after two killers who, by posing as a single man and sister, enlist in finding their victims through the lonely hearts columns within newspapers and magazines.
on the acting side we'll start with the policemen first, travolta as essentially the lead cop in this movie is a somewhat torn man in his duty as a cop and in the loss of his wife, travolta soon finds a new lease,to speak of, by trying to capture the two killers, he is helped in this matter by gandolfini as his straight thinking,talking friend, but though the acting between the two is of an OK standing (gandolfini coming off stronger) the pairing doesn't come off as one would hope and it is slightly stale, more so within their dialog together.
the hunted pair,hayek and leto, have a better chemistry, despite what many have seen of hayek in this film, being wooden and poorly acted out, i'd give her a little more credit than the naysayers, mainly because the person she is portraying is of that type of person, soulless and wholeheartedly callous. her dominance shows through in her interpretation of a jealous and highly possessive person. but the real star who shines in this movie is leto, from his smile right down to the unsteadiness of his actions, movements,gestures are perfect and really shows us what his is capable of, could well be we are witnessing him in his prime, his ending is very well shot (credit to the director there, Todd Robinson).
a long and somewhat violent film, yet it leaves enough subject for conversation and reply value. in terms of what director robinson has achieve,well thats not much, mainly a wasted cast on a somewhat unfair choice in director (The director's grandfather was Elmer C. Robinson, the cop who investigated the Lonely Hearts murders). but still a film to watch.
to be honest straight from the off, it looks like foxx and farrell never got on, their chemistry is non-existent, and uneasy looking.
while this film has the title of a well known home TV series, yet this film bares no resemblance what so ever.
but its not always going to be a bad thing, i mean, a new story fresh faces and action, yet this film fails on almost every level, it is surprising it isn't a straight to DVD release.
while farrell and foxx do look good, i won't call it a cool look, more of an attempt to look organized, yet again, it just looks like they wear the same clothes. the whole story is confusing, yet this is how i see it, two cops, two women on either side of the law, guns, sex, bad dialog, bad accents,boats,misunderstanding (mainly on michael bays side) and thats it.
farrell did okish, foxx sucked on such a level it was unbelievable to my Chinese girlfriend that this man once won a Oscar (and even then he never should have got it), terrible, and sucky, a man who can clearly ruin a film with just his name attached. farrell deserves a better side kick.
while this film has the title of a well known home TV series, yet this film bares no resemblance what so ever.
but its not always going to be a bad thing, i mean, a new story fresh faces and action, yet this film fails on almost every level, it is surprising it isn't a straight to DVD release.
while farrell and foxx do look good, i won't call it a cool look, more of an attempt to look organized, yet again, it just looks like they wear the same clothes. the whole story is confusing, yet this is how i see it, two cops, two women on either side of the law, guns, sex, bad dialog, bad accents,boats,misunderstanding (mainly on michael bays side) and thats it.
farrell did okish, foxx sucked on such a level it was unbelievable to my Chinese girlfriend that this man once won a Oscar (and even then he never should have got it), terrible, and sucky, a man who can clearly ruin a film with just his name attached. farrell deserves a better side kick.