I agree with you. The film had a 12 certificate which meant that everything had to simplified and dumbed down. Darker and more complex plotlines were removed. The source novel is so much better than this mediocre adaptation. You wonder if someone like David Fincher had directed it, would it have been a better film , with a better script as well.

posted 5 years ago in The Circle (2017)

The actress who plays her is big in Bollywood. I have only ever seen her in a The Lunchbox, an Indian film where she plays an unhappy wife who makes lunch for her husband everyday. Well worth a look. In Homeland, she plays a Machiavellian character working for the Pakistan intelligence service, the ISl. Shows her range.

posted 5 years ago in Homeland (2011)

The backstory re General Irwin would have been a better movie than the one depicted in The Last Castle. He disobeyed a presidential order during a peacekeeping mission in an African state. As a result, men under his command were killed. I am a huge Robert Redford fan, but this film is dull.

posted 5 years ago in The Last Castle (2001)

I like the David Duke comparison. A White supremacist in a business suit to present himself as respectable. As for Gary Hart as Stillson, can't see it. Hart was a moderate Democrat , he was the presumed candidate in 1987 until his name was linked with Donna Rice.

posted 5 years ago in Betrayed (1988)

How bizarre! Guy Ritchie pays homage to this scene in his latest film The Gentleman. MAtthew McConnaughey appears to be driven away to his death.

posted 5 years ago in The Long Good Friday (1982)