let's note those 88 items on the director's check list:
1- every 10 minutes, introduce a suspect with a possible motive
2- out of ideas to get pacino out of trouble? Do a fire truck action sequence. audience won't remember anything after that.
- The Guy on the Phone is Anton Chigurh from no Country For Old Men.
(I'am watching this movie right now, i think that's his new Hobby.. if i'am not gonna see him, i know it's him)
- Psychology Class lengths about 5 mins and contains smalltalk about legal insanity. Additionally comes 2-3 Minutes of wasted time the Teacher spends receiving Phone calls
Smashing his phone to smithereens, his only link to his would be killer and his assistant, and uttering a completely underwhelmed "Oh. No."
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I thought the first scene was particularly stupid when the asian girl says something like "why would anyone want to kill princess diana? She is so nice and pretty." ?!?!?
shareCan someone remind me what the "milk scene" was? I saw this movie this past weekend, but forgot a lot of it right away.
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the milk scene was at the very beginning where pacino has that plate of cookies from the first victim's sister and he makes a big deal how everybody should have a glass of milk with the cookies, pretty funny thinking back on it
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Holy crap, now I remember. Wow, that was a goofy scene. Thanks for the reminder.
shareIt is amazing that people pick things like Pacino's hair and a fire truck to condemn a movie. I wish you that do that would announce the brilliant films that you like but you never seem to do that. Just nitpick as though you were some sort of genius director. You must get very little enjoyment out of life.
shareI haven't seen anyone mention this..
but it cracked me up how good the quality of the murder video was that they showed Pacino in the conference room. Didn't he pop in a video tape? Widescreen? That clear? Not to mention how smooth the panning was... but maybe that's just me..
And no delay on the live interview...
This movie was so bad that I stopped watching about 10 minutes from the end and started reading these comments, which were about one-hundred-thousand times more entertaining.
You all got most of the glaring flaws in this movie, but I had a couple of favorites:
* Pacino blatantly grabbing Alicia Witt's breast and holding on for a minute or so after the car bomb went off. Maybe he found it comforting amidst all the chaos?
* Just before that, Pacino and Witt running out of the burning apartment building and waving their guns around in the middle of a crowd. None of the emergency services thought that was odd? Maybe they assumed it was protection against the maruading bands of homicidal fire fighters.
* The whole $100 cab ride thing. Why not just tell the guy where you want to go and let him drive? That's how taxis work, Professor.
* Pacino's "sister" was clearly his daughter in an earlier version of the script. Perhaps they changed it so he wouldn't have to exert himself "acting" upset when he related the gruesome story to his assistant.
Yes, cruz blade, you are right about the whole daughter thing because in the home video she is calling out to her dad who is filming her and it kept confusing me because I thought she was his daughter.
It was funny too how the plot kept jumping around from scene to scene and he's off in a mad dash to find out who is behind the whole thing, then there is a several minute scence in the taxi with him opening up about his "sister's" murder. Also, 88 minutes is not a very long time. He could have hung out in the police station for less than an hour and a half and probably been perfectly safe.
The cab ride was so weird. At first I thought the driver was going to be left behind and I thought thaht $100 isn't a lot of money for "stealing" the cab, then when I noticed that the driver was in the back seat, I thought "WTF" why wouldn't he just let the driver drive so he could concentrate on making his phone calls?
I just saw it on tv. One of the worst thriller ever.
shareBest thread on imdb.. makes me wanna see this film again!
shareman, what a dumb movie, but this thread just made my night. i read all 180 posts! here are a few more:
- when you are trying to hide the fact that you are a lawyer, tell your mark that you went to law school.
- kill the star witness on the day you are going to be executed, because that automatically overturns your conviction.
- in 88 minutes you can create a copycat defense AND frame the star witness AND kill the star witness (and lots of other people).
- once you get to be a professor, you can call into MSNBC any time they want, and get warrants, and order the FBI around.
- when you get a death threat, suspect all your students who have been very supportive of you. because when someone wants to kill you, they tell you from 20 feet away, surrounded by dozens of other people.
- when your remote starter doesn't work on the very first push from 50 feet away, suspect a bomb.
- if your boss gives you a top-secret security code for everything he holds near and dear, including the audio tape of his sister's/daughter's murder, write the code on a sheet of paper and keep it on your desk.
- if you get a mysterious audio tape while you are being hunted down and simultaneously framed, don't play it. same for video.
- remind a person how much time they have left, because in 88 minutes it's so easy to lose track of when 11:45 is.
- in fact risk identification by writing on his overheads in full view of everyone, just to remind him again
- the day someone is trying to kill you is always the day you get a new doorman.
- it's easy for a girl with two hostages to scale to the top of a 150' atrium and hang a pulley.
- the innocent ex-boyfriend will somehow always manage to be in every scene that could implicate him.
- when you want someone dead, you should kill the ex-boyfriend who is about to kill him, and then try (unsuccessfully) to kill him yourself.
- its easy to get into elite schools with an alias - no one ever checks those things.
- when trying to implicate/taunt another person, use your catchphrase every 3 minutes.
- create that catchphrase 9 years earlier when it makes no sense.
- a person whose sister was brutally murdered is giddy on the day of the execution, and brings cookies to everyone involved.