feverdeang

Why aren't there more comments and viewers for this disturbing little gem? The best conspiracy movie(JFK, PI or otherwise) in may a year hits all the right notes technically and plot wise. Filmmed digitally (SONY PD-150) with such skill that you'll be checking your TV/DVD resolution in the first five minutes, the filmmakers use every advantage and disadvatage of the digital format to their benefit. The camera work begins static, rigid local TV news style then slowly takes on a subtle impressionistic style that blurs the line between docudrama and fiction. Viewers not interested in film as a meta-(self referential) text need not apply. After starting with the formal aspects of the JFK mystery, camera angles, do pictures lie, tampered

evidence and conflicting witnesses the film then seems to turn on the viewer so that we are put in the position of one of those unlucky witnesses who were

bribed, intimidated, bullied, framed or killed for seeing just a little too much. The performances are uniformly great, starting with the ballistics man who plays his part so straight I had to mentally check and remind myself this wasn't a

documentary. The ex-wife was brilliant. All the actors were just realistic to the point of surrealism. I'm now babbling, SEE THIS MOVIE

Hey... It's not all bad but it's that kind of bad that you shouldn't pay to see, rent or own. It might warrant watching on TV if it's on for free and you don't get too bored. I'm an artist, a filmmaker, comics and literature fan and this movie fails on so many levels it's barely worth looking. The production design, costumes, sets and SPFX are all top notch. Peta Wilson and Stuart Townsend seem to be in another movie; one closer to the comic

book, that allows them to act, show feelings, character development and

subtlety. Sean Connery is wasted and as Executive Producer he should have

fired Norrington and the screen writer as soon as he saw the first week of

daillies. The problem is the script is leaden and is so full of illogical plot holes only very little kids won't notice. Director Norrington is so lost he can't even put together a fight scene with continuity let alone a world spanning quest movie. A final comment on the comic book to screen translation. Why would you throw out a perfectly good, well reviewed, easily adaptable book? With the current

level of SPFX technology combined with the modern movie audience's

increasing level of tolerance for long films, it was possible to do justice to Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neil's brilliant work. Once again Hollywood thinks all the

viewers want is the surface explosions when what makes the classics (Raiders

of the Lost Ark, The Three Musketeers, The Great Escape, Kelly's Heroes) great is the character's individual strength's and weaknesses combining to give the audience something to identify with. This movie's faux father and son symbolism was shallow and insulting to the intelligence.

the funniest movie at Sundance 2001 Scotland PA brought the house down. Maura Tierny and James Legross like a modern Morticia and Gomez Adams can't keep their hands off each other or any one in the way of their fast food takeover bid. Done in high seventies style with amazing detail( roach clips, polyester everything, muscle cars and Pabst Blue Ribbon)the film is faithful to Shakespeare and to fans of over the top satire. Toss in Andy Dick as the leader of the witches and you've got a crowd pleasing, gut busting , high-brow comedy.

my favorite drama in the 2001 Sundance festival ,Manic was a frightening look at teenagers out of control and how the world forces them to desparate measures. Set in a juvenile mental institution it tells the story of Lyle ( Joseph Gordon Levitt, in an amazing, breakout dramatic performance) put under lock and key for assaulting another boy with a baseball bat. He rejects the system, it's diagnosis and it's blindness to the real problems he and the other kids are facing. Brutally honest and inspiring (without any schlockly-hokey feel good crap) shot in DV and improv-ed and made with the help of REAL kids in this terrible situation, Manic was an example of what a film festival should support. Also I would be doing a great disservice if I didn't mention the quiet commanding presence of young actor Cody Lightning (only 14 years old!!!!!)See this film!

A popular hit at this years Sundance Film Fest, Lift showed how love and money, family and friends can become confused in the search for status. Niecy works at a ritzy department store which covers for her real job as a steal to order shoplifter. All her friends love her as long as she delivers the goods. Even her mother pressures her for extravagant presents. Her boyfriend smokes pot, dreams of being a rap producer and looks down on her shoplifting "business" while hypocritically Nicey looks down on him for smoking pot! When she has to join forces with a gang leader to lift an especially expensive gift for her mother the pressure and fate conspire and her world crumbles. Filmed in Boston with an almost completely African- American cast, Lift doesn't take the easy cliched way out, but explores the well drawn characters emotions and their limitations. A solid, well crafted drama.

Just saw the film (and I think it's a FILM not just a movie) and it was well written ,acted ,directed , everything is right on the mark. I am SUPER critical of emotional string pulling and manipulation. Once again director Zemekis shows hollyWOOD the meaning of SUBTLE. Tom Hanks is a very honest and truthful actor when handled correctly. Compare this to how ham-fisted Shpielberg "uses" Hanks' simplicity and economy of expression in the inferior "Private Ryan". Had S.S. directed this we would have had to SEE the wedding ring reappear, Kelly's picture would have slowly faded etc... Now the only problem is that S.S. has gotten his hands on Kubrick's last project "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" and already produced a schmaltzy trailer with the silhouette of a little boy right out of his schmaltzy Dreamworks logo(you KNOW he designed that cutesy / pukey image).GREAT FILM.

I think IMDB was invented for me to get this off my chest, S. Speilberg is not a FILMmaker as in film as art. SS is a movie maker,a talented hack who's success has gone to his head. Jurrassic Park, great escapist fantasy,Raiders, handed to him on a platter by Lucas, Jaws, brilliant horror,Close Encounters, a virtuoso UFO riff. In Schindlers List and Amistad we see two oppressed groups, the Jews and the African slaves are unable to help themselves without help from the oppressive white man who is subjugating them to begin with! Wouldn't a story about the Holocaust or Slavery be more satisfying if it showed how the oppressed helped themselves instead of implying that THE STORY to tell about this particular period of history makes the victims unimportant, interchangable, of NO consequence except to motivate the "HERO"?? Also who is reading these scripts? Isn't the little girl in the red coat the SAME plot device( I don't even know what to call it, motif, ornament, twist??) as having Tom Hank's character release the german soldier that ultimately kills him.?!? In short I think SS should stick to the kid stuff. There is a terrible rumor that he wants the rights to Kubrick's last project "AI"!!!PS I hated E. T.

i've just joined imdb and i'm confused by the criteria people use to rate films. PI is by no means the greatest movie ever but it is imaginative, truly mysterious and original. don't compare apples and oranges ( HK cinema and hollywood CGI no plot epics etc.) PI has a hard boiled detective, metaphysical sci-fi' conspiracy flavor that anyone can enjoy. the performances are great,sets imaginative, the camera work shows atechno world built on garbage. the film isn't about technology but the weakness of people who want an ANSWER for the worlds problems. well worth a rental.

i'm a guy ,i think cruise is an enviably good looking, but i think i'm a good judge of charisma and tommy doesn't have any that i can see. i had to pay for two tom cruise movies this year(something i swore i'd NEVER do ) Eyes Wide Shut( i'm a big Kubrick fan, don't get me started, i don't know what happened there) and MI2. it appears the marketing and styling (production design) in this movie were agonized over to the point where MI2 has no teeth, it's like an action movie directed by a fashion designer stuck in the late 80's. i enjoy john woo's work so i'm blaming this on tommy. however when cruise takes the gloves off and really acts (MAGNOLIA) he's great. i don't get it.