Pursued (2004) 5.2
A fast rising hi tech executive must protect his career and family from the ruthless tactics of a homicidal corporate headhunter. Director:Kristoffer TaboriWriter:Maggie April |
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Pursued (2004) 5.2
A fast rising hi tech executive must protect his career and family from the ruthless tactics of a homicidal corporate headhunter. Director:Kristoffer TaboriWriter:Maggie April |
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| Christian Slater | ... | ||
| Gil Bellows | ... | ||
| Estella Warren | ... | ||
| Michael Clarke Duncan | ... | ||
| Conchita Campbell | ... | ||
| Kevin McNulty | ... | ||
| Tyler Labine | ... | ||
| Sarah Strange | ... | ||
| Chelah Horsdal | ... | ||
| Saul Rubinek | ... | ||
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Scott Hylands | ... | |
| Camille Mitchell | ... |
Jen (Real Esate Agent)
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Candus Churchill | ... | |
| Kirsten Robek | ... | ||
| Enid-Raye Adams | ... | ||
Wall Street's leading headhunter Vincent Palmer isn't just extremely good in finding the ideal executives for corporate top jobs and offering them a deal hard to resist. His special knack is making them sign even if they really don't want to. Such a hard nut is Benjamin 'Ben' Keats, who invented a brilliant persons tracking device and is committed to his partners and staff to use it to launch their firm VizTrack on the stock exchange. Vincent pulls all seductive stops with Ben, his wife and daughter, in vain. Then he hints even murder is in his repertoire. Ben checks out that's true but decides ti fight back. Written by KGF Vissers
I like Christian Slater, I'm a fan. And I understand he may want to try out a bad-guy role like his co-star John Travolta in Broken Arrow, but this movie makes Slater annoying. Everywhere you turn - he's there with that grating voice and midwestern accent and pushy personality.
The movie is contrived and predictable. Yes, Slater did a good job of acting because his character evoked the desired emotions as the pursuer. But the pursuee scientist Ben Keats is a genius in the lab, but is so dumb outside as to be impossible. Never thinks to call the police. His wife is equally as dumb to believe obvious contrived stories of their chance meetings.
So about 1/3 of the way into the movie I stopped caring and just watched to see if the movie really was as predicable as I thought. I am so good, unfortunately, so I wasted 1 hour. Thank you, the movie is only 95 minutes.