The United States of Leeland?
#3
DVD Talk Special Edition
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 1,806
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
saw it saturday night cause Man on Fire was all rented out, and I enjoyed it a lot. It definitly will need a second viewing, but the actors and the score and directing were all top notch. The story was decent too I guessed, I just wished it either delved deeper into the plot and/or give a better reason for what happened to the movie, instead of leaving it up to the audience (which was the intent, I think...). Overall, definitly at least worth watching once, if not blind buy.
#5
DVD Talk Platinum Edition
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Twin Cities, Minnesota
Posts: 3,807
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Great performances by everybody involved. Rented this without really even knowing what it was about and I was very impressed. Don Cheadle was good as usual and Ryan Gosling was very good as well. Hell, I even thought Chris Klein was decent in this movie and I usually don't like him that much. I would recommend this to anyone.
#6
DVD Talk Gold Edition
I was sorely unimpressed by the film. So much of it felt useless and the characters motivations (especially Klein's) felt weak. I feel like it had a hard time finding it's place, but at least it tried. I enjoyed the performances all around, except for Jenna, she was horrible.
I think it just had a hard time focusing on the problem at hand and kept diving into too much backstory, and not even completing that.
I was really hoping for a Spacey/Gosling breakout scene, but with ten minutes left in the movie, I lost hope while they tried to scotch tape the rest of it together.
I think it just had a hard time focusing on the problem at hand and kept diving into too much backstory, and not even completing that.
I was really hoping for a Spacey/Gosling breakout scene, but with ten minutes left in the movie, I lost hope while they tried to scotch tape the rest of it together.