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This has got to be...

posted 20 years ago by DJFRYER
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... in the runnning for the worst movie ever. It's not often I get angry, and even less so over a movie, but this pile of Hollywood drivel has really pinched a nerve. Maybe it's the bleeding hearts strings that assualt my ears everytime the small boy comes on screen. Beggin to get a tear out of me. Maybe it's the rain that appears on cue everytime Alec's brooding character sets foot on the screen. Or maybe, just maybe it's the complete lack of originality. direction, writing and suspense that really gets my goat. I know it's supposed to be your typical action, popcorn affair but please, please make it at least half entertaining. Worst. Movie. Eva.
And the kids names Simon, as in 'simple' Simon. They really just were'nt trying with this one.

[–] jejozi 12 years ago

Yeah, there are so many films out there where the government is out to assassinate a 9 year-old. And you said "Eva". JFC.

This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.

[–] surgecess 12 years ago

Well knock me down with a feather, I'll tell you what, this movie really sticks it in my craw! Phew, what a stinker.

.. I am, in a word, terse.

[–] franzkabuki 10 years ago

As far as dumb, super corny action/suspense movies go, it actually managed to be rather entertaining - certainly more easily watchable than I thought it would be after realizing Willis would be spending the entire movie with that annoying kid in tow. Kind OK for a piece of temporary distraction - which, however, doesn't change the fact it's a cliched piece of work through and through (hero has a traumatic experience in the beginning; is relegated to desk work ("you had your magic, but you lost it" lol); turns to booze and pills; keeps having ultra-hokey, heavy handed flashbacks of the original trauma; has only one honest cop he can trust (of course a black man for PC reasons); at some point picks up an absurd & arbitrary female sidekick with a heart of gold... and all ends in a big showdown between the hero and the main bad guy on top of the skyscraper. A bloody machine could have put this script together, based on previous movies of this type).

"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

[–] milstar 10 years ago

I dunno for you people, but I find this movie depressive. A very depressive - experience as movie and watching it. Even the look of the film is somewhat somber.