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...vinegar. The greatest failing of Halicki’s supposed masterpiece is the script. A significant amount of dialogue is given as voice-overs during car-chases or while the main characters are repairing stolen vehicles in the auto shop. Thus, the viewer is so focused on the action on-screen that he/she completely ignores the voice-over comments. And yet, even without abundant voice-over, the original “Gone in 60 Seconds” would be utterly confusing. The audience is plunged into a network of thirty-something men who talk too quickly and run around town...
...permit, but Bobo and Hutcherson are up to the challenge. I found myself laughing at some of the one-liners delivered by Bobo, a cute combination between a younger Macaulay Culkin and Rupert Grint (Ron from the “Harry Potter” series). His on-screen brother, Hutcherson, displays a charmingly bratty demeanor with such lines as “Get me a juice box, biotch.” The same compliments cannot be given to the grown-up actors in the movie. Dax Shepard, minus his “Punk’d” partner Ashton...
...pose the pertinent modern question: do men need to serve as the providers in order to feel relationship fulfillment? Not to sound like an Amish prude, but Rafi and Dave’s sex life takes up too much screen time. While Thurman and Greenberg do have fabulous on-screen chemistry, watching their sexcapades all the flipping time gets old really quickly. Most of Rafi and Dave’s relationship screen time is spent having sex, walking around post-sex, or trying to get to sex. When not having sex, they are either fighting or noticing their age difference...
...young hero is shot, the country’s leftist guerillas attack and the boy is saved.Before that happens, though, a soldier shoots another boy in the back of the head, and the camera lingers on him as he falls forward, breaking film conventions against showing violence against children on-screen.“Innocent Voices,” Mexico’s official submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, is built on the experiences of its co-writer, Oscar Torres, from his childhood during El Salvador’s 1980-1992 civil war. Torres lived through these...
Directed by D.J. Caruso Universal Pictures 2.5 Stars Al Pacino in manic mode is arguably the best on-screen energizer working today. Redoing his schtick as a possibly corrupt businessman (see “The Devil’s Advocate”) seems like a sure bet. But even Pacino in hyper-speed, and co-star Matthew McConaughey, is not enough to save D.J. Caruso’s (“Taking Lives”) latest film, “Two for the Money,” a mediocre spin on the sports drama genre. McConaughey plays Brandon Lane...