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Déjà Vu (1997)
What was Dillane thinking when he took this role?
This viewer came away from this movie with the idea that Victoria Foyt and her husband must have been very generous with the cash to purchase such great actors for such a silly little movie. A check of Victoria Foyt's "acting" credits at IMDb shows that she hasn't been in any "real" movies, only those that she puts on herself. Foyt can't act her way out of a wet paper bag, and repetition and loud lines don't compensate for a lack of talent when supposedly working extemporaneously. I love Dillane's work, and to give him credit, he did his best to stay professional in this odd story. His best scene, though, was the one with the doorway, when he could just act, and not have to (one imagines) suppress winces at how awful it must have been to work with Foyt.
I do like that Vanessa Redgrave and her mother Rachel Kempson together, but they didn't have anything to sink their teeth into. Anna Massey is wonderful wherever she is. But she was wasted here.
Jun 27, 2010: Author's note. A one-star rating on this review is not unexpected or in any way dismaying. This film has been adopted by a lunatic fringe touch-feely group (I can't be bothered to look them up, but a Google search on this film will let you back-track to them) that gives away free DVDs of the film to members who join. It's just the silliest thing you won't waste your time on, and again, I'm sorry they managed to fool so many really good actors into joining this enterprise.
This first appeared on Amazon, and I wanted to share it here without having to watch that nonsense again. I looked in at IMDb and see she has a couple of more "films" to her credit, still make with the husband who must have deep pockets.
Bones: The Resurrection in the Remains (2015)
Oddest of the Odd
No spoilers, but no love, either.
Bones is a comedy drama mystery that stands alone in the over-the- air television marketplace. It is so well written that a few words, a look, or a small gesture can speak volumes. The plots are complex and cleverly conceal the one who-done-it in plain sight and use science and deductive reasoning to reveal motive. They get to the bottom of everything. One imagines that there must have been some behind the scenes eye-rolling as this episode was underway as science had to either ignore or validate the supernatural nonsense that seeped in from Sleepy Hollow.
The actors aren't the same as their characters, and while early network promotions suggested the actors enjoyed the merger, the characters in this episode worked so much against type that there should have been resistance when the Sleepy Hollow crew were invited onto the set. The scientific and procedural verisimilitude of Bones went out the window when the fluffy nonsense of time travel and the undead came for a Halloween visit to solve a mystery or two.
In a program that prides itself on laying the groundwork, there seems to have been some back story between the FBI agents Booth and Abby whats-her-name. Who is Corbyn? I don't watch Sleepy Hollow to know who they were talking about, and Bones gave us no clue as to those conversations - I thought perhaps they were discussing contemporary British politics.
In the future if you've viewed this Bones episode and wonder about the rest of the story, don't bother to hunt down the Sleepy Hollow episode find the few Bones and Booth scenes. They were punting - there is nothing to see there.
The viewers of Bones are loyal, so an occasional "odd" episode won't cause them to flee the enterprise. In hindsight fans will be able to watch this episode as a mystery regarding a dead woman and dismiss the Sleepy Hollow nonsense in the archives as Halloween static. The seasonal pranks were clever - I hope the writers visit Christine's school homeroom one day soon to show us just how those homemade treats from Dr. Brennan are received by the teacher and kids.