At the end of the movie, or close to it, when HF knocks the bad guy over the building and he falls twelve stories into an empty dumpster, I laughed sooooooo hard. My friend and I both did. However, no one in the movie theater laughed. Was that supposed to be funny? Cuz it sure saved this piece of crap movie (along with the cell phone songs). Did anyone else experience this kind of confusion?
shareI couldn't stop laughing. It was great. So many movies have scenes where a guy falls from a high place, into a soft dumpster filled with soft things. Not this guy. He hit the bottom hard. And the way ford just knocked the dumpster was great.
Though I thought the I.A. Interrogation scene was just comic gold. With Ford beating the Interviewer to the phone everytime, and Hartnett going into a Yoga trance.
I must say that there were a lot of jokes that the general audience missed. Maybe because some people were there only to see Josh Hartnett, as he's so "Dreamy" that they didn't pay attention or care about the other bits.
All in all I thought this was a great film, and apparently better then "The Hulk".
If you can come up with any "funny" jokes that I may have missed that would be great. I watched this from start to finish and would say I maybe chuckled a couple times. I found the "humor" completely distracting. I did not think the interrogation scene was any good. Every joke seemed forced and overly scripted.
It certainly was not because I spent time ogling Hartnett.
I can't say that I was disappointed because I had my expectations properly set, but this is still Harrison Ford and at least he could make this watchable, right? No. This is a film that should have showcased Ford's comic timing. Instead, it made me think that Harrison should stick to incidental comedy (where the humor is derived from his reaction to a situation) as opposed to trying to be funny himself with one liners and the such.
This is definitely one of the worst movies I have rented in the last year. Indy 4 better come quick before Ford chooses other projects to further his newfound mediocrity, though I must say I enjoyed his turn in What Lies Beneath.
The psychic bit... awful. The running real estate bit... awful. Hartnett's dopey overly green cop act... awful.
I don't see what people saw in this one, but this wont be the last time. I just thought this movie played as a mess of potentially good intentions. Ron Shelton should stick to the sports thing. This and his other LA cop movie, Dark Blue, were both very anticlimactic and uninteresting...