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...Enter the hope for salvation in the person of Stuntman Mike (Russell). He's a grizzled charmer who amiably boasts to the girls about the stars he's doubled for in movies, until he realizes that these kids can't be impressed by people they're too young to have heard of. To the pretty, troubled Ferlito, Mike gruffly coos, "There are few things as fetching as a bruised ego on a beautiful angel." The movie's one moment of unforced charisma comes when Russell catches the camera watching him, and smiles. The viewer just naturally smiles back. Why would...
...fashioned competition: stunt driver vs. stunt girl. Nonetheless, Zoe is asking for it. If you strap yourself to the hood of a car going 120 mph, don't be surprised if you and your friends get in trouble, with or without the menace of a Stuntman Mike. And if you're a filmmaker who wants to build sympathy for your heroines, don't make them as bat-poop crazy as the villain. Also, don't give Zoe three or four chances (when they momentarily lose Mike) to get off the hood...
...says, referring to the stunts in the movie. “You certainly want the audience to feel like they’re really watching me go through all these things and not feel like they’re cutting away to a stuntman constantly. So [I did] more than was probably safe, but, you know, we survived, so it was worth it.” But Wahlberg says that what distinguishes “Shooter” from other action films is not its stunts but rather its focus on character development. That appeal prompted the 35-year...
...David Blaine frees himself from a locked gyroscope spinning some 40 ft. above a Manhattan street corner by the end of Thanksgiving Day, the stuntman plans...
...dime, watched a Fresno State defender fly by and darted across the field for a 50-yd. touchdown? Perhaps his quantum leap over a UCLA cornerback, legs split high in the air la Michael Jordan, finished with a flip into the end zone like a Hollywood stuntman? Bush, downplaying his theatrics, won't pick a favorite. "It's just like playing football with your friends out in the street," he told TIME...