fantasia

I'm thinking about pre-ordering both Double Jeopardy and the Bone Collector. I've never seen either. I'm not a very picky person -- I tend to like mindless mainstream movies :-). What did you people think of these 2 movies?

Frank A

I enjoyed Double Jeopardy as an action flick. The plot has many holes and is pretty implausible. But their are some good performances and plot twists. The story moves along nicely without dragging. I'm a big fan of Ashley Judd, and she is wonderful in the movie. Tommy Lee Jones' performance is pretty much the same as the Fugitive movies. The DVD, though lacking in extras, features great picture and sound quality.

Calistoga

I saw both at the theaters, and although I enjoyed both, I preferred Bone Collector. I'm not buying Double Jeopardy since I don't feel it has repeat value. The plot definitely had holes in it. Bone Collector will be going into my collection, but I'm a fan of Denzel Washington, so may be a bit biased.


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jonathan.e

Sorry to be so violently opposed to the two reviews above but Double Jeopardy is one of the lamest excuses for a main-stream "major" movie I’ve seen in years. It’s like some made for tv movie that ended up in the cinema, it’s that bad. There’s a classic scene where you realise just how bad this movie sucks when they show the passage of time by dissolving from season-to-season, surely the lamest way of getting it across. Also be warned Tommy Lee Jones doesn’t even appear until well over half an hour into the movie and then spends most of the rest of it chasing Ashley Judd’s character in some lame reprise of his Fugitive/US Marshalls character. For the life of me I cannot understand why this flick made so much money, I can only assume there was an unusually strong female turnout for it, putting, as it does a wronged woman at the center and watching her exact her revenge on the evil ex-husband.

The Bone Collector is yet another of Denzel Washington’s bad career choices (how does this guy choose his movies? with a pin and a blindfold??!!) and reaches such heights of implausibility that I’d probably run onto two pages if I listed them all. It’s also unecessarily very graphic in it’s depiction of the crimes, in a lame "seven" kind of way. The only good thing about it is the score by Craig Armstrong.

I wish I could be more positive, but I really couldn’t recommend either of these.

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Patman

Fantasia, based on your described tastes in movies, both of these films will provide you with a couple of hours of entertainment each. I do like seeing 2 films with strong female protagonists.

jonathan, these are popcorn movies, go with the flow, bro. Maybe Denzel just wanted to kiss Angelina, and someone threw the Bone Collector script his way...

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fantasia

Patman-
Yup, "popcorn" type movies are my favorite (I actually liked movies like "The Mummy", "Godzilla", and "Wild Wild West"). As long as the movie is reasonably well paced (not boring), I'll be happy .

Nathan Robinson

Loving such movies as Seven I went to the theater to see Bone Collector, hoping for a similar experience.

Let me be clear: Bone Collector is the worst movie I've seen in a theater in five years. Its laughable theme, terribly obvious revealing of key plot elements, lack of suspense, absurd villains, and even more ridiculous hero make this film virtually unwatchable.

I hated it. It was embarrassing to find myself walking out of the theater.

jonathan.e

Patman - Armageddon, The Matrix, American Pie, Big Daddy these were popcorn movies - big, dumb and crass but entertaining. I don’t think you should have to go into a movie theater with low expectations in order to enjoy any flick. They should all succeed on some level otherwise they’re just bad. I took a friend with me to see Double Jeopardy and I apologised to her afterward for inflicting it on her as I had no idea it would be awful and I ended up buying her dinner to make up for it and still felt guilty.

However in the end that’s just my opinion (and hers too!) so I guess that’s all she wrote!

ps fantasia - rent them first, you’ll thank me.

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