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Just Saw Edison

posted 19 years ago by keysersoze64
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I really wanted to like this film! I've just watched Edison on dvd and I have to say I haven't been so bored in a long time! It's really disappointing as I think it could have been a good film, potentially, and I really wanted to like it, as it has my favourite actor Kevin Spacey in it! But it's just a badly made film, imo - badly written, directed and edited. It's certainly not the actors. Kevin, Morgan Freeman, LL Cool J, Justin Timberlake (not that bad at all in his first serious acting role, imo), they're all fine in the film. It's just something in the overall pacing and the dreadful cliched dialogue they have to spout! I was almost embarrassed for poor Kevin, watching him in the film, thinking "what the hell is he doing in this crap?" I guess it must have seemed ok on paper! Lol.

I just found the whole film so cliched, all the exploding cars, guns blazing, the good cops vs bad cops. All done a million times before, but a million times better. Really, Kevin just seemed to be going through the motions in it, to
me. Like he was only in it to do someone a favour or he needed the money or something! Lol. He barely has much screen time anyway. Morgan Freeman does his
best, of course. I don't think I've ever seen that man give a bad performance in anything. LL Cool J is pretty good, but doesn't really have much to do in it, except stand around looking worried and concerned at all the stuff happening around him, lol. Piper Perabo hardly has any screen time and is completely wasted in it. John Heard is ok but hardly at his best. Dylan McDermott is completely over the top. Some of the characters are so one-dimensional it's like they're straight out of a comic book! As for Justin Timberlake, while his performance is far from being Oscar-worthy, I think he shows a lot of potential to be a decent enough actor, once he gets more experience, if people are unprejudiced enough to give him a chance and not condemn him outright, just because he's been in the pop charts!

Anyway, a hugely disappointing film for me. Just my opinion of course, and maybe a lot of people will like it, but I certainly won't be sitting through that again, except to fast forward to Kevin's scenes. It's worth it to see that wonderful man on the screen, if nothing else. I'd happily watch him read the Yellow Pages.

And I so wanted to like the film too! Lol. Oh well.

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[–] mslsng 19 years ago

where did you get the dvd from? because i found it in germany... but it does not work in american dvd players...

[–] keysersoze64 19 years ago

A friend in Germany sent it to me. I'm in the UK and can play German dvds here.

"Ack! Ack!! ACK! Aaaaaaack!"

[–] Desiree_Durcan 19 years ago

If you really want to buy a bootleg you can play Region 2 and Region 4 on your computer if you have the correct dvd-player program. I use PowerDVD, however I don't recommend buying bootlegs, not only is it illegal, but you're also taking away money from the people who worked hard to make this film.

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[–] Purple_Princess84 19 years ago

I work for best buy and i can tell u that those cheep dvd players that u see for like sometimes under $40-$50 are the ones the are multi-region.
Go Talk to someone is home theater and they should know what ur looking for just ask for a dvd player that plays multi-region dvds.

[–] moviedvdfreak 19 years ago

yeah i got a cyberhome progressive scan dvd player from best buy on sale for $29.99 around xmas time.thing plays everything.i got some import ali g dvds from england,and some other dvds that have different region codes.this is the best dvd player i ever bought,very reliable.ive had edison on dvd for about 4 months,you tellin me it hasnt been released yet?i totally forgot about this movie,i figured it would of came out by now,same with guy ritchie revolver which i also have on dvd,whats the deal with this one?

by the way edison sux,and revolver is decent.

[–] dchauvey 19 years ago

I got my bootleg from Iraq.

I am totally convinced that during shooting of this film, someone switched the script. because none of these actors would have signed on. that and the overall film could have been great if it didn't have that *beep* ending..

[–] maadbonez 19 years ago

I TRIED to like this movie...and I don't know why I kept watching after the 1st 30 minutes, but I did. Its amazing that a director can get a bunch of A list actors and musicians into one movie, but completely throw it out the window. My girl and I were trying to understand the director's direction; but I think I would have had to smoke some PCP myself before following this story. I can't ever see it ever being picked up and distributed throughout North America but then again, I have seen worse movies.

P.S. Not only does Justin Timberlake put on a disgrace of a performance, I think he needs to start taking some testosterone pills to "man up" a bit. Not only does he dance like Michael Jackson in his onstage personal, he actually sounds like a 12 year old prepubecent boy.

[–] lilacrose12082 19 years ago

That's merely his voice. Some actors lower their voice when they're shooting films. Terrence Howard does, his voice is whiney as hell. Apparently, he wasn't given direction to do that. He does have a higher voice, but he's also had surgery on it. As someone that's met him in the past, he's manly enough.

[–] spoiltapplez 19 years ago

I agree. This movie was awful. All of the actors did their best, but when a movie's writing and direction are as fundamentally flawed as they are in Edison, there's no hope for salvation. I watched this movie because there are some mixed reviews on this message board, and I hoped that the negative reviewers were just haters like so many jackasses on imdb, but let me assure you, Edison sucks. I'm living in Beijing right now where buying a movie costs less than renting a movie in the US. I've watched a film every evening for the past ten months, and nothing I've ever seen has sucked as much donkey d!ck as "Edison"...

[–] denizg 19 years ago

Damn...I fell a sleep (I AM NOT JOKING!!) during this movie. How sad is this. My friend woke me up at the end!!

[–] Pussycatdoll_06 19 years ago

I really like this movie oh man where there sum Shady ppl in the film but overall good movie!

"Welcome to the Suck"

[–] jordan_goodine_9 19 years ago

It started off slow and crappy, but in the end, it ended up being decent. I think we're lucky, Timberlake Could have done worse. All the other actors/actresses were fine, and the plot was followable. However, being Decent when people have huge expectations for a film isn't a good thing. I expected brilliance, a true revitalization to the thriller/action genre. What I got was a mediocre offering and the thought that the film could've been so much better. If you go into it with lowered expectations, you won't be disappointed, but if you had high hopes, skip it.

[–] kessingler 19 years ago

WARNING: A *beep* LOAD OF SPOILERS!!

the spoiler being that the movie sucks?

i saw this one, DVD, it couldnt get any more bootleg than the version i saw (so chssst!!). The movie lacks a coherent plot, it has one, but its more of an impediment for the movie to go anywhere, it starts with a bunch of really bad guys who solve crime (called here "FRAT") on a ficticious city called Edison (when i was about to see this thing, i thought the movie was about some brazilian soccer player), and to our surprise, one the guys on the group happends to be a good guy, who eventually kills everyone in the end.

Trainning day?... maaaybe. Its not a bad movie, theres just a lot of things that the movie lacks and a whole lot of different other things that are there for no apparent reasson.

Justin Timberlake is there for no apparent reasson for example, his high pitched michael jackson-like voice gets annoying from the start, as does his character in the movie, whose motives are never all that quite clear since hes pretty much the generic reporter who keeps going after the bad guys after they beat him up AND his girlfriend, you kinda want him to get killed, yet, that sadly never happends because of some sort of movie law that prevents singer/actors from diying in any movie.

When i sayd in the beginning that the good guy "kills everyone in the end", i mean that, its seriously ridiculous, at one point L.L. gets his hands on a flamethrower, so we get to see some of those CGI flames scorching what appear to be people who werent fast enough to dodge a slow, short range little camp fire (with all that sayd, this *beep* could be considered science fiction alright).

[–] tsuchinoko 19 years ago

kessingler...

SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!

law that prevents singer/actors from dying in a movie?

how many times has queen latifah been killed off in her movies?

Bjork died too

"No creepy bleeding poisonous organic carousel horses were harmed during the making of this game"

[–] Fotip 19 years ago

Unfortunately Madonna died in Body of Evidence. An amazing performance from her, one of the few.

[–] phoeberascal-1 19 years ago

Justin's hot. The movie blew chunks.... terrible script. He did a decent job acting though. :o)

[–] piper_fan87 19 years ago

Ahhh god yeah terrible script, and I'm sorry but I can't stand seeing Justin Timberlake trying to act. It's painful. Please JT, stick to music. I love Piper Perabo though, and she did ok, just a shame she gets beaten up early on in the film.

[–] Don_Flamenco 19 years ago

"some sort of movie law that prevents singer/actors from diying in any movie"

Tell that to Madonna(Dick Tracy, Body of Evidence), Queen Latifah(a whole bunch), Sheryl Crow(some movie with Owen Wilson), 2 Pac(Above the Rim, thaat cob movie with the living Belushi), X Zibit(Derailed), Mandy Moore(that crappy movie she made her film debut in), Method Man(Derailed, Venom), Red Man(Seed of Chicky), Jon Bon Jovi(Cry Wolf), Ice Cube(Tresspass), Ice T(a bunch), AaliyahQueen of the Damned), and a bunch of others

[–] Blad33 19 years ago

No way! Seriously! I heard this film was bad! But!? This bad! This! Bad!

Really! Thanks for your opinion keysersoze64! Thanks! For! Your! Opinion!

"Yeah, Morgan. It's a real rarity that we'd be out drinkin'." -- Good Will Hunting.

[–] bigbro501-1 19 years ago

This was not that bad of a film. It did have tons of cliches in it but even with those in place, it is, in my opinion, better then half of some the mainstream crapt that comes out of Hollywood. Justin Timberlake impressed me with his acting. The rest of the cast was good as well. I think it is worth renting on DVD. It comes out tomorrow 07/18/06

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[–] Fotip 19 years ago

Just finished watching it. I liked it. Is it a favorite? No. Will I buy it? No. But I was pleased and I thought the acting was good. Over the top, fast, and different. 8/10