Derailed
2005 Directed by Mikael Håfström
Synopsis
He never saw it coming.
When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.
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Vincent Cassel, Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen are having the lead in the thriller full of betrayal.
I always have a soft spot for Clive Owen and I am a big fan of Vincent Cassel. Vincent Cassel again didn't disappoint as the ruthless but also very charismatic La Roche, unfortunately Clive didn't deliver as I had hoped. Jennifer Aniston surprised with her performance which is quite different from her sit-com role within Friends.
Unfortunately this movie is pretty much standard and after 30-35 minutes you can guess where this movie is heading too, it is only the acting of Vincent Cassel which keeps this movie from being boring. It is a shame that his role wasn't even bigger.
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There is absolutely no chemistry between the leads, so the story fails in its suspension of disbelief, even before it begins.
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Derailed gets half way interesting after 75 minutes, which is way to late. Not even the excellent performances of Cassel and Esposito can make up for it.
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Mikael Håfström directs this slow moving film starring Clive Owen as a run-down father and husband who falls into a seedy affair with Jennifer Anniston, only to be the target of a scam that threatens to drown him in debt, lose him his family and everything he's fought so hard to build.
It's not clear where the lines of deceny and truth are in his morality tale, with the usual twists and gangsters out to cause trouble for an ordinary man thrown into an extraordianry situation.
Owen is pretty miserable throughout the film and boring to watch, as Anniston does her best to play victim as she is drawn into the scam also, but deeper than it looks.
There are better thrillers out there, this is only for die hard Owen/Anniston fans as it offers nothing really new to the genre.
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Vincent Cassel, Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen are having the lead in the thriller full of betrayal.
I always have a soft spot for Clive Owen and I am a big fan of Vincent Cassel. Vincent Cassel again didn't disappoint as the ruthless but also very charismatic La Roche, unfortunately Clive didn't deliver as I had hoped. Jennifer Aniston surprised with her performance which is quite different from her sit-com role within Friends.
Unfortunately this movie is pretty much standard and after 30-35 minutes you can guess where this movie is heading too, it is only the acting of Vincent Cassel which keeps this movie from being boring. It is a shame that his role wasn't even bigger.
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A crime movie starring Jennifer Aniston - here's a once-in-a-life experience for you. It's also moderately good, if not brilliant. Owen was appropriately hapless, Cassel was customarily evil and charming, and Aniston as femme fatale was a bit far-fetched.
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“Entgleist” hat mich schon ein klein wenig enttäuscht. Das was ein spannender Thriller hätte werden können, entpuppt sich als ein Film, der versucht mit wirren Plotwendungen den Zuschauer bei Stange zu halten. Clive Owen überzeugt zwar in diesem perfiden Spiel als Opferfigur, doch kann er den Film mit seiner Darstellung leider nicht retten. Dies will auch Jennifer Aniston nicht so recht gelingen. Aniston zählt für mich bei “Friends” zwar zu den interessantesten Figuren, doch zeigt sie in “Entgleist”, dass die mit Rollen in Spielfilmen ein wenig überfordert scheint. Zumindest scheint dies bei ernsten Filmen der Fall zu sein, denn in Komödien wie “…und dann kam Polly” überzeugt die schließlich auf ganzer Linie.
Was dem Film auch nicht gut tut ist die Erzählweise die Mikael Hafström (Zimmer 1408) für seine Regiearbeit gewählt hat. So wie er die Geschichte erzählt fällt es schwer dem erzählten zu folgen und zeitweise war ich sogar kurz davor abzuschalten, da so wenig spannendes passiert.
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A nothing film: nothing to like or dislike, get excited about or remember it for. Vincent Cassel is the best thing about it but this has to be his least interesting role.
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I thought it was pretty good. The characters were flimsy, the plot totally unbelievable, and the acting was a bit ham, but what do you expect when they cast Vincent Cassel as the pantomime villain? But it kept my attention throughout, and I genuinely didn't see the twists coming. I can think of worse things to do with 90 minutes of my life.
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Starting and staying less than average it had a really nice plot twist. Too bad we have another case of "how can you be so stupid? just call the freaking cops!".
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This film is beyond bad. It seems to want to set up this film with you liking the character of Clive Owen and then toward the end, you are suppose to still like him even after he cheated on his wife, got a friend killed, killed a lot of people and stole money from his company. It didn't work for me at all. I liked some of the film, but most of it was unwatchable to me. I get that it was trying to go for a film noir, but it didn't seem to work. There was a twist with one of the characters and the twist was easy to see for any person who has seen a film noir movie before. I like Clive Owen but he seemed really off in this movie.
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I like Clive Owen. Except in this film. Here he's a blithering idiot. Plus it has one awful twist too many that is so obviously studio exec interference it might as well have had a big sign saying "Tacked on ending" for the whole final act. Average at its best, painfully stupid at its worst.