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Miss oppotunity

posted 12 years ago by pj2105
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For the talent on hand, the movie falls short of hitting its mark. We have no empathy for McQueens character and his attempt at lip syncing boarders on ridiculous, and should have been cleaned up in editing.
McQueen and Remic are A graders, but the long drawn out sceans are just redundant and things that could have come across quickly just take ages to develop. The acting is better than good (except for the lip sync but we can forgive McQueen here).
The fault with the movie is that Henry shows no love towards his wife and child and therefor we care little of his fate.
The realisation of his wife st the end of the movie that the marrage is over and that it was just a stage of her life, "we sure do get around", sums it up.
The title of the movie descibes Henry, the rain can stay up there foa a long time but in the end its gotta fall. Henry is 'bad' and its just a matter of time before the law catches up with him.

[–] zuzupetal_99 9 years ago

I don't know why, but I didn't have much empathy for Henry either, despite his sad back story, and the fact that he goes back to prison at the end and loses his family. It sounds sad, but I didn't feel for him the way I should of.....maybe because I am a woman, and I have been a single mother, I felt the most for Georgette & Margaret Rose. They were the ones that tore at my heart the most. Ordinarily I enjoy Steve McQueen's performance in films, I didn't like him much here - part of it was his character, and yes, the lip synching was atrocious. He did such lunk-headed things, gambling with not just his life, but his family that had sacrificed so much to be with him. And it just felt like he threw it away rather easily. I thought Lee Remick was wonderful in the film, and while I did find the movie interesting to watch, her performance as well as that of Margaret Rose & Slim were also perfect, it's not a movie that I will revisit often. But still, a movie worth watching.

"Are you going to your grave with unlived lives in your veins?" ~ The Good Girl

[–] ellie246 9 years ago

agree with both posts.

There was something missing in this film, even McQueen said he didn't really understand the role !!