Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: Two ballyhooed books are classic examples of how to -- and how not to -- write a great thriller...
...chat with Jones can be like an entrance exam to a higher, harder life form. Sit with him at a restaurant in Memphis, where he is shooting the John Grisham thriller The Client, and ask something innocuous, like what he reads. "The New York Times once a week . . . and also some secret trash books that will go unnamed, stashed hither and yon. I don't trust you enough to tell you the titles of all the books I'm reading." Well, which of his parts might he call a breakthrough role? A frown. "Breakfast roll? Oh, breakthrough role...
...joke about X-rated action in Hong Kong movies, where the corpses pile up as artistically as in a Pilobolus production number. But Woo might have guessed that when he came to America to make the Jean-Claude Van Damme bayou thriller Hard Target, the gentlefolk on the Motion Picture Association of America's rating board would not be amused. They surely wouldn't think Woo's cult reputation as the world's most gifted director of rapier-edged action films (A Better Tomorrow, The Killer) entitled him to any special dispensation. So they saw Hard Target and sent...
...Fugitive" is by far the best movie of the summer. How's that for objectivity? But seriously, it was the best action-thriller keep-you-on-the-edge-of-your-seat movie in a long while, and definitely welcomed relief from what could have been a very long summer drought. There has to be something to this movie if it can keep someone like me with the attention span of a gnat engaged from start to finish...
...BOTTOM LINE: Reimagined instead of recycled, an adaptation of a '60s old TV show emerges as a first-rate thriller...