The Courier
2012 Directed by Hany Abu-Assad
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$1 Million Dollars to Deliver a Breifcase to a Man Determined Not to be Found
A specialist carrier is hired to deliver a mysterious case to the underworld's most dangerous hitman. (IMDb)
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I was suckered in by it's poster and trailer since I dig B-grade films. It turned out to be okay, but certainly not anything new. I wish they'd used the green screen to it's proper potential, instead it looked overly cheap and felt embarrassing to watch at points. I'm giving it a very lenient two and a half star rating.
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Once again the proof, that a list of producers longer than the list of the cast couldn't result in a good movie. It's also possible that the fact that Til Schweiger is on both lists leads to this crap. ;-)
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I often think that films are like letters. You can receive a letter in many different ways. It can come wrapped in pretty paper with a bow tied around it. It can come in a envelope marked for your attention only. It can arrive in a joyous moment of celebration or it can arrive in a time of sadness.
This film is the equivalent of receiving a jiffy bag with a hastily scrawled address on it. It piques the interest but also confuses.
You open the seal and dip your hand inside the envelope looking forward to the surprise... Only to find a stone cold turd, a fucking corpse of a film nestling in the bottom. GOTCHA!It's too late. You've realised some witless fuck hoodwinked you into getting poo on your hands. Is this really the shit that passes for 'Action/Thriller' these days?
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Decent action, sloppy plot, poor acting from some of the supporting cast. It was an OKAY film.
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I'm a fan of JDM since Grey's Anatomy. He's not so bad!
This kind of lost its way. Had great potential (as all the best say) however I think they, yet again, got bored of writing the script.
Some predictable plot twists (will this not ever get boring to script writers?!), but not hatable... Left open for a sequel, which I won't be subscribing to. -
Very good action mind twister with a bitch of an ending
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I was suckered in by it's poster and trailer since I dig B-grade films. It turned out to be okay, but certainly not anything new. I wish they'd used the green screen to it's proper potential, instead it looked overly cheap and felt embarrassing to watch at points. I'm giving it a very lenient two and a half star rating.
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Aside from one sequence, nobody in The Courier seems to give a shit. Jeffrey Dean Morgan could be a great DTV action star -- he's got a unique persona that'd stand out against JCVD, Seagal, Kilmer, Willis, or whoever else is slumming it these days -- but he gets no opportunities from this script or director. The film is plagued with bad green-screen, weak action, and a cast as misused as he is. Only one brief torture scene with Lili Taylor and Miguel Ferrer is memorable; then it's right back into the muck with an ending that rips off one of the most popular crime thrillers of the '90s, and poorly at that.
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10 minutes was enough....did not bother finishing this
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What an utter piece of shit. The torture scene is all this film has to offer. Move along,nothing to see here.
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Once again the proof, that a list of producers longer than the list of the cast couldn't result in a good movie. It's also possible that the fact that Til Schweiger is on both lists leads to this crap. ;-)
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I often think that films are like letters. You can receive a letter in many different ways. It can come wrapped in pretty paper with a bow tied around it. It can come in a envelope marked for your attention only. It can arrive in a joyous moment of celebration or it can arrive in a time of sadness.
This film is the equivalent of receiving a jiffy bag with a hastily scrawled address on it. It piques the interest but also confuses.
You open the seal and dip your hand inside the envelope looking forward to the surprise... Only to find a stone cold turd, a fucking corpse of a film nestling in the bottom. GOTCHA!It's too late. You've realised some witless fuck hoodwinked you into getting poo on your hands. Is this really the shit that passes for 'Action/Thriller' these days?