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...business by two vicious thugs. Thanks to his surprisingly adroit gunplay, they're dead and he's a hero, with a sudden fame that makes him uncomfortable. His unease escalates when some other toughs, led by one-eyed Fogerty (Ed Harris), drop in, declaring that Tom is one Joey Cusack, notorious gunslinger in a Philadelphia mob, and insisting that he go back East with them to clear up some unfinished business. Despite Tom's earnest protests, the local sheriff and even Edie wonder whether he really is the man they've respected and loved for 20 years...
...pleas of the film's press agents and not reveal who's who and what happens. Suffice to say that this adaptation of the graphic novel by John Wagner has four outbreaks of jolting violence to give some kick to a penetrating character study; and that the real Joey Cusack has a savory showdown with his mob-boss brother Richie (played by William Hurt with a rich pleasure in menace). Mortensen, whose Tom is as stalwart as his Middle-Earth Aragorn, is completely convincing and utterly hunky -a man worth loving, no matter...
...impartiality demanded by the Times pulpit. Harvey Weinstein, the former Miramax head and one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, notoriously put his arm around Mitchell and said he was his “favorite film critic” after the premiere screening of the 2001 John Cusack romantic comedy Serendipity, according to The New York Observer...
When Casey comes home one day, caught in a slew of lies she must tell her mother in order to go ice-skating—yes, ice-skating—Cusack responds to her costume, which inadvertently falls out of Casey’s wholesome (read: dorky) backpack, with the vigilance that many parents might have had it been cocaine. The melodramatic scene begins as a slow-motion close-up as the backpack falls to the ground and Casey’s ice-skates and little red costume tumble out, and then cut to mom’s horrified...
...ending leaves much to be desired and the “there is no shelf life on your mind” vs. “you have to want it” lifestyle debate is played out with more than a little heavy-handedness. Cusack and Cattrall, however, manage to shine in suffocating stereotypical roles...