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In the Cut (2003)
Better than I was led to believe
I had heard so many discouraging things about this movie I almost did not try to see it. In hindsight, I am glad that I did.
The movie was a competent mystery, and that is saying something from me. It did keep me guessing most of the way through the movie. Although the movie was somewhat hamfisted about throwing out the red herrings, it still left plenty of opportunity for guess work, and deductive reasoning.
I also liked the fact that Meg Ryan finally did something with a little bite. I am sick of all of the sickeningly sweet roles she has cast herself in for the last decade or so. She is a good actress, and finally she has allowed herself out of her dependent relationship on the romantic comedy.
Campion's use of lighting and color was very distracting through the movie... almost to the point of annoyance. However it did get a message across. I am going to go back and watch this one again to try to glean more information from the cinematographic narrative that she put together.
Again, although this movie was hamfisted and clumsy at times, overall I think that it was one of the best mysteries that has come out in a long time. Finally a whodunnit where you don't know whodunnit until near the end.
Strange Luck: Soul Survivor (1995)
Brilliant but Cancelled
This is another great show that stood to do well. However when FOX revamped its schedule and moved Strange Luck's excellent lead in, "The X-Files," and replaced it with a truely lame show (it was so bad I cannot even remember its name), they effectively killed the show.
"Strange Luck" was a fun and witty, hour-long television show that not only poked fun at itself, but at the never-ending, crime-solving mysteries that permeate the airwaves.
I really hope that this, along with another great show, "Now and Again," will make the transition to DVD that many of these critically acclaimed but network bombs are doing these days.
Swordfish (2001)
Did anyone listen to the beginning of the movie?
Travolta's monologue at the beginning of the movie summed the movie up well. What if the bad guys were really bad. Forsake human life for the cause. This movie took advantage of that to the fullest. The initial explosion through the finale showed this.
Although Gabriel was a man of his word, he was also a great manipulator and a masterful villain. Jackman was the altruistic ex-felon who served time for his beliefs. Together they perpetrate a crime while never trusting each other.
Ruthlessness is the catch word here. The allusion to " Dog Day Afternoon" was taken to it's fullest here and the villains....
Enjoy this movie for what it is...an action packed heist and twisting suspense film in the most enjoyable light.