I know some people are more sympathetic of a film than I might be, just because they like a particular actor in the film and wish to give him or her the benefit of the doubt. Well, I don't have any such limitation here, as I don't like Harrison Ford as an actor, or rather should say that I simply don't consider him a good actor at all, and the rest of the cast are also B grade actors. Mr. Ford is just not a particularly believable figure on screen, really in any film he's been in. But I have totally changed my mind about actors on certain occasions, usually ones that I didn't like when they were younger but have gotten to like as they've (and I've) gotten older. Like John Travolta. I hated that whole Grease and Saturday Night Fever era, and thought Mr. Travolta was just, well, greasy and feverish and disgusting. But you know what? He's gone on to do some really credible roles in some really fulfilling movies. I consider him to have become quite a solid actor.
So I watched this film with as little antagonism as possible. Oh, but God, what an awful, awful, awful movie it is. Every device has been done, done, done to death. I was actually yelling at the screen (I was watching it at home) on two occasions.
Possible spoilers (but not really giving much away)*** The first was when there was an opportunity to escape that was so long and drawn out that of course it would end in failure and, woops! Boy, I sure didn't see that one coming! They got caught!
The second was very near the end when "Jack" was scoping out a particular situation from a safe vantage point. Something happened, he needed to move quickly, and... he fell! Boy, I sure didn't see that one coming either! Wow, he really fell! I never would have thought that he would have fallen like that! That really slowed him down, that's such a bummer.
Yeah, yeah... it was really like that. There was no scene in the movie that was any better than anything I have said above. This kind of movie really makes me +angry+ and I would love to contact Mr. Ford personally and ask him, "How dare you to take that fall! How dare you to make a film this useless!"
Oh, but I'm tilting at windmills lately. The "I could have told you that" hedge fund meltdown, the reelection of the most imbecilic president this country has ever seen, and this awful movie. I just don't know how people can look the other way and let these things happen.
So I give this film a "1", only because negative numbers are not allowed. It is the worst of the worst, and a bad example of a bad breed.
So I watched this film with as little antagonism as possible. Oh, but God, what an awful, awful, awful movie it is. Every device has been done, done, done to death. I was actually yelling at the screen (I was watching it at home) on two occasions.
Possible spoilers (but not really giving much away)*** The first was when there was an opportunity to escape that was so long and drawn out that of course it would end in failure and, woops! Boy, I sure didn't see that one coming! They got caught!
The second was very near the end when "Jack" was scoping out a particular situation from a safe vantage point. Something happened, he needed to move quickly, and... he fell! Boy, I sure didn't see that one coming either! Wow, he really fell! I never would have thought that he would have fallen like that! That really slowed him down, that's such a bummer.
Yeah, yeah... it was really like that. There was no scene in the movie that was any better than anything I have said above. This kind of movie really makes me +angry+ and I would love to contact Mr. Ford personally and ask him, "How dare you to take that fall! How dare you to make a film this useless!"
Oh, but I'm tilting at windmills lately. The "I could have told you that" hedge fund meltdown, the reelection of the most imbecilic president this country has ever seen, and this awful movie. I just don't know how people can look the other way and let these things happen.
So I give this film a "1", only because negative numbers are not allowed. It is the worst of the worst, and a bad example of a bad breed.