From what i have read on here, it proves we all have different opinions!
I actually liked this film! Christian slater is very cool as usual. The storyline was good too! Its got what films like phone booth lacked.
More proof that straight to video films arent that bad these days, especially when it has good actors in it.
Im not saying this is oscar material or genious, but its good!
I just cant understand how you like this movie it's just-- how? how?
shareI thought the film was quite entertaining. However I did get weary of hearing Slater's voice time and time and time again.
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This film was entertaining and wasn't a bad watch but I was waiting for them to use that tracking formula at an earlier time in the movie. The secretary getting booted out of her job where everyone was like family, what the hell was that about? Easiest way to get a mole in there is to get someone fired.
The funny part was when this "security expert" said we'd have to follow Slater's character the old fashioned way when he didn't take the drink with the tracking formula and he never noticed them in his mirror all the time they follow him - LOL.
Just watched it - this is a good film. Not brilliant, but good (as in 7 out of 10 stars). Focusing on the ruthlessness of corporate headhunting is current and relevant and an admirable topic to tackle. Too bad the headhunter had to be psychotic, though. This is an over-the-top element which undermines the realism of the premise - unless there is a study that shows that these kind of headhunters are in fact often psychotic... which wouldn't surprise me one bit.
Anyway, I don't know why so many people think this movie sucked - if they don't like *this* movie, but still watched it, how many other movies that they really, *really* hate must they also be watching? And no, I don't wanna know.
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Ironically, it was scenes like the one featuring the phone booth which ruined this film for me. What the hell was a pay phone doing there...in a phone booth...and one that still takes incoming calls too? Just a little something to give the characters a little something to do, I guess.
Also there was the lecture about corporate espionage early in the film. Perhaps the filmakers thought that their audience would be ignorant about such things as electronic surveillance. However, it still took "Ben", a genious, almost the entire film to figure it out.
And then there was the...
It was on "peasant vision" (i.e NON-cable TV) last week, less than 2 years after release, so I should have known.
To me it was like a bullet -- a whole lot of powerful velocity at the beginning, but it lost steam very quickly and at the end because of the distance it had to travel it had little oomph left to make any kind of a significant impact.
I was impressed how the villain (Slater) appeared so evil at the end yet the writers had him be such a "nice guy" to the daughter and wife -- although the wife was a complete idiot to not see early on that it was just an act. And any claim to realism went out the window at the end, when the techie (Bellows) is all like Dirty Harry -- well I was not entirely disappointed to be interrupted by a phone call and so I missed a few of those concluding details :rolleyes:
I'd give it a 6/10 because it started with promise, and I knew early on it was "comic book thriller" not "Tom Clancy thriller" therefore my expectations were low and it *almost* reached them. :)
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Chipping away at a mountain of pop culture trivia,
Darren Dirt.
I thought the first 60 minutes or so was excellent in a classic stalker movie way. But like most thrillers, the writers (probably victims of studio pressure) can't let the bad guy win and create an implausible ending to let the good guy victorious.
For me, it jumped the shark shortly after Ben discovered the tracking systems. Personally, I think most people who love their wife and child wouldn't risk their lives just to keep a job. Loyalty is one thing, but over your family? Then the Palmer (who's supposed to be an ex-Navy Seal) doesn't notice a guy trailing him for hours into his rather private compound? His place has absolutely no security? Again, an ex-Navy Seal gets shot and loses in hand-to-hand combat with a guy who went to business school? And lastly, his company is just fine??? The main backer is dead and Ben is looked at as a crazy guy after getting busted - how could the IPO been successful?
So I gave it a 7: First 30 minutes (9), Second 30 minutes (9) and Last 30 minutes (3) - a rounded average score of 7.
PS - I thought Christina Slater was brilliant. If the writers had a little foresight, they could've made this a series (e.g. - Saw) where he relentlessly pursues his target - with the next one finally complying. Missed opportunity.