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...hearty dash of scandal, intrigue and romance. Sounds like a recipe for potential disaster, and it too often is. Although Rappeneau’s recreation of this war-torn era is undeniably excellent, his grasp of plot and characters is tenuous at best and not enough to redeem the film??s many faults...
...what is to be done with Tinseltown’s unfortunate state of affairs? Well, studios can start by moving away from its reliance on test audiences. Producers remain convinced that test screenings are the best way to gauge a film??s potential success and target audience. This is largely ineffective. Paramount Pictures must somehow have found the only ten people on the planet likely to enjoy Twisted, branded them a focus group and gave the movie a green light. The movie failed to recoup even half its budget. Most of the movies in this week?...
...audience with the kind of potent visual poignancy unseen in his previous directorial work. The telling of the story is equally effective, as screenwriters Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald (Wise Blood) find most of their narrative might in the passion plays’ minor characters. Though violence is the film??s major theme, what resonates from The Passion of the Christ is not necessarily its brutality, but rather the significance of his sacrifice. There are only glimpses of Christ’s words in the movie, and his resurrection is given minimal screen time, but these are provided...
...passionate about this presence, who, in the film, shows as much depth as Tyrese in 2 Fast 2 Furious. Oddly enough, the only deeply felt character is Pontius Pilate (Hristo Naumov Shopov), who comes off as nuanced but ultimately unwilling to risk a rebellion to save one madman. The film??s violence is physically exhausting and, ultimately, numbing; ultimately, these shots begin to resemble pornography, complete with a money shot...
...futures, but who gets to date Sally. In one significant way, Mooseport diverges from its “Leave It to Beaver” sensibilities, ultimately telling its audience that government is best left to cheats and liars. It’s a message that dovetails nicely with the film??s in-your-face easygoingness, but one that seems distastefully simpleminded near the start of an election year that is likely to be one of America’s most ugliest and most bitter...