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Overdone?

posted 21 years ago by cousinolaf
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I have to say, I gave the film a seven, and it was quite a feisty little piece with some good acting, a reasonable story, an ending that wasn't quite apparant which way it was going to fall out until the end (either that or I'm just dumb, but I thought there were a number of ways it could go right up to the final scene). But I found the whole joining-the-film-at-the-end-then-backtracking-to-see-how-we-got-here thing just a little unneccessary, along with some of the fancy editing. There seems to be a school of thought that tries to cram stuff into movies and make them as convoluted as possible, and I happen to think htis was kind of good enough to carry itself without this kind of tinkering. Am I an idiot?

That is all.

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[–] getgoingtim 21 years ago

I agree. I really did not think much of the movie ether. I though Rachel Weisz, and Dustin Hoffman were the best things going for it. The con was not clever, and the plot was a rehash of con movies of before.

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[–] dumb2ugly 21 years ago

The movie itself is mess but some of the performances more than made up for the problem. I though Rachel Weisz performances was actually the best of all the actors because she made a very flat character very interesting, and if you seen The DVD commentary, you will hear that her character was more three-dimensional but was watered down because of the inconstancy of the script. A script that was not very thought out to begin with.

[–] therevue8 21 years ago

I agree that the movie needed a lot of work, especially with a script that was more of a plot summery than a screenplay. Ed Burns was good but he needed to drop his annoying New York accent, and Paul Giamatti who needed to be in it more. I do agree with the majority here that Rachel Weisz, and Dustin Hoffman give stand out performances in this movie because they at the very least were interesting in their parts. Weisz made a cheap throwaway part into a classy and sexy role, and Hoffman’s glorified cameo was a real hoot.

[–] The_Commander 21 years ago

The movie was fine. I don't know why people always freakin' complain about scripts and crap. For the record, the only time you do that is when you're watching a B-Movie.

I agree. I really did not think much of the movie ether. I though Rachel Weisz, and Dustin Hoffman were the best things going for it. The con was not clever, and the plot was a rehash of con movies of before.

Also for the record, all con movies are about cons which means about the same plot, in case you forgot. And the con was clever, it kind of reminded me of Ocean's Eleven. Andy Garcia(Dustin Hoffman in this movie) thought he was on top of everything, when in the end we find out he wasn't. It was TOTALLY clever the way it went down. So stop complaining, I gave it an 8. Good script, actors, and I loved the colors they used in the background.

You people must not live in the US, I can tell.

[–] getgoingtim 21 years ago

With all due respect. If you can see the ending of the movie when the movie begins, then there is something-major league wrong with the script and trust me there is. The movie does not try to be original, instead, it plays on every cliché ever done in a con film. Am I asking for the smartest movie ever made? No, but I’m asking for a movie that at the very least try to be clever. This movie was not clever at all, and I felt real bad for all the actors involve (Especially Rachel Weisz and Dustin Hoffman) who did miracles with the one-dimensional parts they had to work with.

By the way. I’m American, so don’t turn around and say that Americans could only enjoy this film, because in reality, that’s not true. A good film is a universal language, as well as a bad film.

[–] teddy_34 21 years ago

Hey guys, I really enjoyed this movie so this may be a little bias, but I think all the acting was quite good! Some actors tend to get crapped on for no apparent reason, Ed Burns is a good actor, mins hes no Deniro or sumthin, but he aint that bad, and the rest of the cast wasnt that bad at all, the movie just had some holes nonetheless, but yah gotta take movies for what they are, you expect to much from a movie u get dissapointed(Such as the hype that ruined Titanic and Armageddon for me)