We rented this movie for one reason: Morgan Freeman. Unfortunately, Morgan Freeman's largest part in this movie is on the DVD box. I like Morgan Freeman, but this whole movie, and especially his supposed part in it, is a fraud. I HATE gang-banger gibberish and subliterate street jargon, and that's all this movie is. Whatever hidden cautionary tale this movie is supposed to convey is buried under cubic yards of blithering idiocy. If you want to see what is in this movie without paying for it, just go over to the bad side of what ever city you live in and you'll see plenty of it. Whatever you do, don't waste your time or money on this movie if you are wanting to see Morgan Freeman--he just isn't there. Rating: a big goose egg -- 0. There's not one redeeming quality to this movie, not even the big name "associated" with it.
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In the Cut
(2003)
Hated it.
4 March 2004
In the Cut just didn't do it for me. Maybe Meg Ryan is trying to shed her "good girl" image, but all she managed to do for me was shed her "good movie" image. Profanity in movies has never offended me, but the profanity in this movie just seems to be thrown in for its supposed shock value. This movie appears to be nothing more than a vehicle for Ryan to get naked and Ruffalo to talk like some prank-calling pervert at a payphone. The plot was, well--absent. The characters were despicable and repugnant and the atmosphere was grimy and foul, like a back alley crack house. I had only one persistent emotion during this entire ordeal, and that was escape. The movie was misery from the opening credits, and couldn't wait for it to end.
The Omega Man
(1971)
An allegory of sin and redemption
31 October 2003
*** WARNING: SPOILER!!! ***
Chinese biological warfare agents are accidentally dispersed over the United States during a Sino-Soviet border war. This biowar agent splits the population into two classes: the dead, and the slowly dying, some of whom become night-dwelling, albino, psychopathic legalists ("the Family") bent an destroying all vestiges of technology. And then there is Robert Neville (Charleton Heston), who is immune thanks to a vaccine that came along too late.
At night, the Family tries to dislodge Neville from his well-lit fortress; and during the day, Neville tries to find "the hive" where the Family is holed up. In the course of his search he discovers that there are others alive who have not yet succumbed to the inevitable "Family" stage of the plague.
The young brother (Richie) of Neville's love interest (Lisa) begins degrading into the final stage of the plague, and Neville is able to reverse it by transfusing the plague antibodies from his own blood into Richie. Richie later attempts to take the good news of the cure to the Family, and is murdered for it. While Neville is out (after dark) trying to rescue Richie, Lisa changes over, and is drawn into the darkness by the siren-like voice of the Family's leader, Matthias. Neville is betrayed by Lisa, who has succumbed to the darkness and has been beguiled by Matthias. Neville and Matthias engage in a verbal tug-of-war over Lisa, with Neville pleading 'Lisa, for God's sake come back into the light.' Matthias hurls a spear at Neville, striking him in the center of the chest. He pulls the spear out, but is obviously mortally wounded. He falls into a fountain in front of his residence, where he is found shortly after sunrise by the others who have not yet succumbed, but are utterly dependent on Neville for his blood's antibodies to save them from the plague. As his dying act, Neville hands the bottle of serum he made to Dutch, the leader of the remnant, but he fumbles and drops it. Dutch grasps for it, but it falls in the bloody water in the fountain. With great relief Dutch recovers the bottle unbroken and holds it up, looking at the others (many of whom are children) who will be saved by the antibodies.
Dutch and the remnant leave, and the credits roll on the image of the now-dead Neville. He is lying in a fountain filled with blood, arms flailed out to his side, head bowed, knees bent, ankles crossed, in what appears to be a very deliberate allusion to the crucified Christ.
The scene in which the little girl asks Neville 'are you God?' plays out a little corny, but was probably intended as a foreshadowing of the messianic allegory that Neville would fulfill at the end. That end is one man, who is curiously immune from a plague that universally condemns all humanity to darkness and death, provides by his blood the only cure that can bring those previously condemned into light and life. Great movie, and a great allegory of the greatest message of hope.
Chinese biological warfare agents are accidentally dispersed over the United States during a Sino-Soviet border war. This biowar agent splits the population into two classes: the dead, and the slowly dying, some of whom become night-dwelling, albino, psychopathic legalists ("the Family") bent an destroying all vestiges of technology. And then there is Robert Neville (Charleton Heston), who is immune thanks to a vaccine that came along too late.
At night, the Family tries to dislodge Neville from his well-lit fortress; and during the day, Neville tries to find "the hive" where the Family is holed up. In the course of his search he discovers that there are others alive who have not yet succumbed to the inevitable "Family" stage of the plague.
The young brother (Richie) of Neville's love interest (Lisa) begins degrading into the final stage of the plague, and Neville is able to reverse it by transfusing the plague antibodies from his own blood into Richie. Richie later attempts to take the good news of the cure to the Family, and is murdered for it. While Neville is out (after dark) trying to rescue Richie, Lisa changes over, and is drawn into the darkness by the siren-like voice of the Family's leader, Matthias. Neville is betrayed by Lisa, who has succumbed to the darkness and has been beguiled by Matthias. Neville and Matthias engage in a verbal tug-of-war over Lisa, with Neville pleading 'Lisa, for God's sake come back into the light.' Matthias hurls a spear at Neville, striking him in the center of the chest. He pulls the spear out, but is obviously mortally wounded. He falls into a fountain in front of his residence, where he is found shortly after sunrise by the others who have not yet succumbed, but are utterly dependent on Neville for his blood's antibodies to save them from the plague. As his dying act, Neville hands the bottle of serum he made to Dutch, the leader of the remnant, but he fumbles and drops it. Dutch grasps for it, but it falls in the bloody water in the fountain. With great relief Dutch recovers the bottle unbroken and holds it up, looking at the others (many of whom are children) who will be saved by the antibodies.
Dutch and the remnant leave, and the credits roll on the image of the now-dead Neville. He is lying in a fountain filled with blood, arms flailed out to his side, head bowed, knees bent, ankles crossed, in what appears to be a very deliberate allusion to the crucified Christ.
The scene in which the little girl asks Neville 'are you God?' plays out a little corny, but was probably intended as a foreshadowing of the messianic allegory that Neville would fulfill at the end. That end is one man, who is curiously immune from a plague that universally condemns all humanity to darkness and death, provides by his blood the only cure that can bring those previously condemned into light and life. Great movie, and a great allegory of the greatest message of hope.
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