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| 1147.1 | As if! | HOTLNE::S_COLLINS | | Tue Aug 06 1996 02:52 | 12 |
| I heard this film tried too much to be like "The Fugitive."
Shame on Andrew Davis, since he is one of the best action film
directors around. I guess he couldn't find anything original to make.
I bet he was trying to repeat somehow, the success he experienced with
his brilliant adaptation of the 1960's television hit "The Fugitive."
This is the second film in a row that was a letdown for his fans.
Remember the Andy Garcia film?
Hopefully he can bounce back...
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| 1147.2 | | KERNEL::PLANTC | The Truth is out there..... | Tue Aug 06 1996 05:22 | 8 |
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re -1
which Andy Garcia film?
Chris
:)
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| 1147.3 | | HOTLNE::S_COLLINS | | Tue Aug 06 1996 05:30 | 1 |
| Steal Big, Steal Little
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| 1147.4 | | KERNEL::PLANTC | The Truth is out there..... | Tue Aug 06 1996 06:56 | 6 |
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thanks again...haven't seen that one!
Chris
:)
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| 1147.5 | Not bad, not great | EVMS::MARION | So many fish ... | Fri Aug 09 1996 14:48 | 15 |
| Saw this last night and I thought it was ok. It was a fairly
enjoyable, if not terribly original, action film. It didn't really
grip my attention as much as i'd hoped, but it's worth a matinee
price.
I guess that's a fairly lukewarm review for me.
What I liked: Keanu Reeves is easy on the eyes. Morgan Freeman's
character is splendidly ambiguous ... no easy guess as to whether
he's one of the good guys or one of the bad guys. A few good
explosions, and an interesting chase scene or three.
Maybe *** out of ***** or so, depending on my mood at the time.
Karen.
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| 1147.6 | Stick around | QUARRY::reeves | Jon Reeves, UNIX compiler group | Thu Aug 15 1996 22:05 | 3 |
| >A few good explosions...
Sit through the closing credits, or you'll miss one of them.
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| 1147.7 | Chain Reaction | WMOIS::TARDUGNO | | Tue Aug 20 1996 11:27 | 2 |
| I didn't sit for ALL the closing credits.....So what did they
show????
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| 1147.8 | not for me | POLAR::BRASSINGTON | Settle Down you arm pit | Fri Aug 23 1996 01:33 | 7 |
| I saw this one tonight and was very disappointed. Freeman and Reeves
were ok, but the rest were terrible. Freeman is on of my favourite,
but I found this was a bad movie for him. Lost of dragy parts. I
personally would't even recomend this one for video.
Pete
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| 1147.9 | Not as critical as -1 | POLAR::LARABIE | Just my $0.02 and worth every penny | Fri Aug 23 1996 01:47 | 9 |
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Sorry Petey but I gotta disagree, I think you're being a little harsh
there pardner.
Granted it wasn't the most exciting action flick I've seen, it did
fairly well in keeping me entertained.
I will concur that I was expecting a little more from the actors, but I
went in knowing this wasn't going to be Oscar caliber material.
All in all I'd give it maybe between 2.75 and 3 out of 5.
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| 1147.10 | | POLAR::BRASSINGTON | Settle Down you arm pit | Fri Aug 23 1996 01:54 | 6 |
| I think my main problem was that I was expecting to much. I like both
Freeman an Reaves and was expecting something awsome from them and I
ended up being quite disapointed.
Pete
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| 1147.11 | The screen was to small too! | POLAR::TYSICK | Rest yur beer on yur head or genitals | Fri Aug 23 1996 09:45 | 7 |
| I went into this one wanting it to suck...and it really wasn't to far
off from that. They could have done more with the story and the acting
sucked if it didn't come from Freeman and sometimes Reaves. I
fortunately didn't have to pay for this one so I didn't care much about
it. I'd give it a 2 outta 5...maybe save it for video...maybe.
J
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| 1147.12 | | COMICS::MILLSS | No BOOM today. BOOM tomorrow. There's always a BOOM tomorrow ! | Fri Aug 23 1996 10:57 | 7 |
| > I went into this one wanting it to suck...
...then why go see it ?
Simes %^)
a.k.a. "Confused of Basingstoke"
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| 1147.13 | Later Davey! | POLAR::TYSICK | Rest yur beer on yur head or genitals | Fri Aug 23 1996 16:20 | 7 |
| RE: .12
It was one of our buddies last nights in town so I would have even gone
to see "Striptease"! [^;= Unfortunetly this was the film picked for
the evening...I would have prefered "Trainspotting"...Oh well!
Jay
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| 1147.12 | Expending more than double the energy | NEWVAX::BUCHMAN | Neolithic UNIX master | Wed Nov 13 1996 17:27 | 16 |
| 1147.13 | | REGENT::POWERS | | Mon Feb 10 1997 09:18 | 34 |
| > <<< Note 1147.12 by NEWVAX::BUCHMAN "Neolithic UNIX master" >>>
> -< Expending more than double the energy >-
>
> > working on a privately funded project to try to extract
> > the hydrogen, from WATER, as a way to generate clean and
>
> Right there is a good place to lower your expectations. It requires at
> least as much energy to break the chemical bond between the H2 and the
> O as you get by burning hydrogen (byproduct of the burning is *water*,
I was disappointed that they didn't make some effort to explain away
the science of the situation. I can accept that maybe they were working
on a way to cheat the chemistry so that it took less energy to break the water
apart than they'd get from putting it back together.
Hence the laser and the sonoluminescence.
"Sonoluminescence" was flashed briefly on the some of the computer screens
in the movie during their test runs. Sonoluminescence is a little-understood
physical process in which ultrasonic sound pulses can cause light-emitting
bubbles of gas to occur in a liquid.
So the writers did have a trick up their sleeves about just this aspect,
but it apparently got left on the cutting room floor.
The tenor of the movie was apparently intended to evoke aspects
of the cold-fusion controversy of a few years back, but they couldn't have
a nuclear explosion in south Chicago. The news reporters specifically
said "teh FBI reported that no nuclear material were involved" (paraphrase).
So for a sci-fi fan, it was a waste of a couple of perfectly good premises.
For an action movie fan, it may be a take, though there are significant
plot holes that rival ID4 (how'd he drive into a secure construction site
and pick up a badge without any challenge at all?).
Fair - pick it up as the second movie on 2-for-1 night.
- tom]
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