The ultimate Experiment: Hirschbiegel shows brutality of humankind
Posted by: Jeremy Maron • November 1, 2002 @ 1:21am
As a blackjack dealer, I can honestly tell you that the majority of the time, gambling does not pay. For every person that leaves my table up, 10-15 will leave down, and the person that left up will most likely lose his/her winnings the next day.
That being said, occasionally a gamble does pay off big time, and changes your life forever.
I was completely unsurprised that in the theatre where jackass: the movie (hereafter referred to as jackass) was shown, it reeked of weed. Maybe I'm getting old, maybe I'm a film snob, or maybe jackass is just stupid.
The movie is just like jackass the television show, which thank God I've never seen a complete episode of.
Abandon is a university campus thriller that follows the exploits of one Katie Burke (Katie Holmes) who is devotedly pushing her way through her financial thesis. Her thesis is her life and anything that seems to interfere with it drives Katie to the point of paranoia.
Katie Holmes and the guy from Law and Order (Benjamin Bratt).
Girl's rich, bohemian boyfriend (Charlie Hunnam) is lost. Is he dead?
We will find out. Probably by the end of the movie.
Spies, intrigue, amnesia and exotic European locales are the elements that make up the new spy thriller, The Bourne Identity. Matt Damon returns to lush locales he visited in The Talented Mr. Ripley to take a crack at the evolving Hollywood spy genre.
Matt Damon stars as author Robert Ludlum's super-spy Jason Bourne.
The Bourne Identity, starring Matt Damon as a spy who can't remember his name, has exactly what The Sum of All Fears and Bad Company are missing: quality. This film is very good, while the other two are crap.
Based on Robert Ludlum's novel of the same name, Damon brings the character to life in a movie that keeps moving forward all the time.
Ironically enough, as I sit down to write a movie review about a movie which features a protagonist who suffers from an acute case of amnesia, I find myself struggling to remember my own experience of viewing said film. Of course, I myself do not suffer from amnesia, and perhaps I am being somewhat cheeky when I speak of having trouble recalling last night's movie screening.
Not since Black Hawk Down has a war film been this harrowing or graphic. Windtalkers delivers.
Windtalkers takes place during the Pacific conflict of World War II. A battered, bruised and nearly deaf soldier named Sgt. Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage) is assigned to a new unit after the tragic ending of his last mission.
Say what you want about Jeremy Irons, but the man has been working in Hollywood for nearly 30 years and has built up an impressive resumé consisting of roles in both smaller more intimate projects and big action-packed blockbusters. He may not always give a consistent performance, but when he's on top of his game he can give a compelling performance on par with even the best actors.
When we last saw our two "heroes" â€" J.S. Lee and the lovely Kiery Drysdale â€" the dynamic duo had just finished doing battle with the atrocious "feminist" (ha ha), buddy gross-out comedy, and probably one of the worst movies of 2002 thus far, The Sweetest Thing. Having barely made it out of the theatre alive, both J.S.
SBM on Social Media