JCVD & Ringo Lam's follow up to Maximum Risk and it's a big step down in quality, but kind of a step up in gonzo?
Ludicrous sci-fi premise. As a crime-thriller, the story is nonsensical. Poor production design and a poor supporting cast. The Seattle locations looked staged and scrubbed of any personality or realism. The wardrobe for the entire cast looks borrowed from Goodwill or a thrift shop from 1991. The cast chosen to support JCVD and Rooker are complete…
More Rock Hudson and snowy mountains. This has got to be one of the worst disaster movies ever made. Poor filmmaking. It felt like they ran out of money and couldn’t pay for reshoots to fix broken scenes. Roger Corman produced. Didn’t know there’s a MST3K version. I should’ve watched that instead.
Best line. When Mia Farrow asks Rock Hudson’s mother where he is, she answers: “He’s up his ass in celebrities!”
They knew 😉
If you ever wanted to see David Fincher direct a Lifetime Network murder-mystery, this is it. Perfectly cast, including Ben Affleck and Tyler Perry, surprisingly. Of course, the female cast was impeccable with Rosamund Pike, Carrie Coon and Kim Dickens. But, I found the male casting particularly interesting. Fincher selected male actors that have real life public personas that are or have been "unlikeable" mainly Affleck and Perry. He also chose male supporting actors that usually play sensitive and emasculated…
Looper is the perfect example of creating an original film that was inspired by a classic one. James Cameron's The Terminator has better action. Rian Johnson's Looper has better drama. It's probably no coincidence that Emily Blunt's character is named Sarah, like Sarah Connor.
Like the original Terminator, this is a low budget sci-fi action film. Yet, the production design, photography and editing are top notch. The performances were fantastic, especially the young Pierce Gagnon. If I have one nitpick,…
