OK, two cops, one a rookie, the other a burnout, are sent out in a hurricane to evacuate people in a hurricane.
It’s a hurricane, get it??A force of nature characterized by heavy rains. right?
Emile Hirsh is a terrible miscast. Doesn’t seem like a cop at all, and always looks…too small for the job.
Anyway, the cops go an apartment building, encounter Mel Gibson, who is very good, some other weird folks, not nearly as good, and a team of heavily armed thieves looking for stolen art.
Too many scenes where two characters have long discussions alone to talk about their pasts, hopes and dreams, while in a crisis situation of being hunted by armed thieves and killers.
Here is the part that took me right out of from the beginning. They are in a hurricane. Heavy rain. No one, not one single person, not the cops, the killers, the citizens, has a raincoat. Or commented about maybe needing one. It’s like they did not know they existed.
The Wolf of Snow Hollow. The last role of Robert Foster. Much better than I expected, a lot of tension and good acting. Very stressful, but I recommend it. On Amazon Video.
Yeah, I’d second all of that and much better written than my post. I’ve read that Jim Cummings had a previous movie called Thunder Road that was very similar, so maybe the werewolf hook was enough for him? The main character did have something of a redemption arc, but you’re right that he was such an asshole by the end that it didn’t really matter. Riki Lindhome did an excellent job.
I strongly suspect that Mason got the role because he had played Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita, something I was unaware of when I first saw the film.
Another “times change” thing. I re-watched (for the umpteenth time) North by Northwest over the weekend.
After the secret agents have pulled off their convincing (to everyone by Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant’s character) performance that Roger was an irresponsible drunk driver, his mother comments “Roger, just pay the two dollars” I remember the line well, and frequently recall it – in 1959 Drunk Driving, (now DUI) was regarded as a minor infraction, with a fine of only $2. Even with infltion, that ain’t much.
I give a full five stars to the Netflix movie: “Til Death”!!
It is a psychological thriller that had my SiL digging her fingernails into my forearm far too many times! LOL
If you want the full effect of this movie, absolutely do NOT read any synopsis or access any spoilers whatsoever! You have to see it unfold without knowing what is coming next!
Heh, yeah. I started reading a book last night that was first published around 1900. The edition I was reading was published in 1930, and the flyleaf blurb was talking about how many people were happy this book was in print again. First edition copies were selling for $25!
Yeah, I caught that the first time around. Also Carol Kane in a very early role as the ‘young whore’ (which is how she’s credited in the film) that goes with Quaid. People probably remember her mostly from being Latka’s girlfriend Simka on the series Taxi, but she has been a very busy actor for about 50 years.
Go Back To China (2019, Prime) - Pampered freeloading 20 something socialite gets her credit card cancelled by estranged father, to get the money faucet turned back on she must work in her fathers factory in China for a year. Throw a stepsister into the mix and predictable hilarity ensues.
Overall, a cute chick flick, I guess I’d give it a B-. It’s not my genre, I put it on to occupy my wife while I worked on my laptop but it pulled me in so that’s something.
I just found this in the “trivia” section of the imdb page on this movie. Evidently the $2 fine is NOT the real fine he would have paid:
I’ve done a quick look, and I can’t find the circa 1960 fine for drunk driving. It WAS still seen as a minor crime, but even sixty years earlier the maximum fine was a couple of hundred dollars (!)
Random thought – Leo G. Carroll played the leader of the spy group – “The Professor”. Later he played Alexander Waverly, the head of U.N.C.L.E. in the TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. Edward Platt played Thornhill’s lawyer. Years later, while Man from U.N.C.L.E was still on the air, Platt was tapped to play “Thaddeus”, the head of C.O.N.T.R.O.L. in the TV series Get Smart!.
A hit man traumatized from accidentally killing a young girl during a job is given the mission to eliminate her mother, and begins the ultimate fight to save her life.
Surprisingly good shoot ‘em up. Guns and murder and intrigue and guns and murder……lot’s of fun.
Make sure to have your English subtitles on. Some of the characters speak English, some Korean, some both
Lady Gaga was very good. Jared Leto was also, though unrecognizable. Al Pacino was Al Pacino.
Good as a biopic, but it ended suddenly after the murder and just showed her conviction. I would like to have seen some of the investigation and the drama there.
I honestly thought Jared Leto’s ‘performance’ was one of the worst I’ve ever seen by a professional actor. I kept asking myself is he meant to be funny or is he actually playing this straight? There were certainly stifled laughs in the screening I was in.
The kindest description I read was: “Leto delivers his lines in a string of high-pitched whoops that suggest he is attempting to communicate with whales” -BBC
I’d never seen it. Essentially a buddy cop movie, just with no actual cop in the film. We have Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin getting on each other’s nerves and the whole thing is a lot of fun. Grodin was a master of…a kind of acting I can not quite describe. Being a nuisance?
A very fun movie and one of the better performances I’ve seen from De Niro, who is very hit or miss in things.
Yeah, he was well directed and I actually enjoyed his performance. It’s in part because Charles Grodin is so good at the type of character he played and De Niro could react to him instead of having to force a performance to come out.
The scene where they fake-test $20 bills to see if they are counterfeit was terrific.
What comedies has De Niro done aside from this and the “Meet the Parents” movies, where he basically plays a tough guy with no humor?
Edit: I found a ranked list and you are right. This is the only genuinely good one and also one where he is funny, not just people around him.