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post #16 of 24
2/16/09 at 5:17pm
Not horrible, not that good.
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post #17 of 24
2/16/09 at 6:18pm
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Originally Posted by mack11211 View Post
Plus: based on the early 90s scandal of The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). When I think of BCCI, I think of Giando, a mob-friendly restaurant at the foot of Broadway in Brooklyn, which through some BCCI link made the cover of the NY Post.

Good read, thanks.


Movie sounds just meh, but the combination of Clive Owen and the topic matter probably means I'll watch it someday.
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post #18 of 24
2/16/09 at 6:41pm
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So I saw the movie on Sunday, it gets a 1 &1/2 "mehs". I wouldn't say embarassingly bad, because the writers obviously gave Clive nothing to work with and he somehow manages to pull a two dimensional character out of what was a one dimensional plot, but yea, underwhelming.

He's really good at that. I remember being struck by how much of an impression his character in The Bourne Identity made on me despite being on screen for a total of like 5 minutes and having three or four lines.
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post #19 of 24
2/17/09 at 2:05pm
Saw it yesterday. Should have been good, but wasn't.
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post #20 of 24
2/17/09 at 2:12pm
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Saw it yesterday. Should have been good, but wasn't.

Did the bankers twirl their mustaches?
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post #21 of 24
2/17/09 at 2:13pm
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Taken was infinitely better than this not quite festering turd.
Since Taken was probably the worst movie of 2008, that's quite a claim.
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post #22 of 24
2/17/09 at 2:18pm
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Did the bankers twirl their mustaches?
No. They saved that for the sequel. Seriously, it could have been very interesting for a movie of its kind, but it wasn't. Everything was too disjointed. Resolving everything generally makes for a bad movie, but this took lack of resolution to a whole new level, in my opinion. It either needed to tell the story with better background, or to resolve something.
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post #23 of 24
2/17/09 at 6:20pm
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Since Taken was probably the worst movie of 2008, that's quite a claim.

Really? Taken made no apologies for being what it was. Liam Neeson as James Bond after marrying Moneypenny, having a kid and getting a divorce. I imagine RJ and GDL didn't like it because it has Neeson shooting/beating up a bunch a bunch of Frenchmen and blowing up parts of Paris, but just so long as you didn't expect it to be a Bourne-quality movie I see no reason anyone should have been dissapointed with it.

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No. They saved that for the sequel.

Seriously, it could have been very interesting for a movie of its kind, but it wasn't. Everything was too disjointed. Resolving everything generally makes for a bad movie, but this took lack of resolution to a whole new level, in my opinion. It either needed to tell the story with better background, or to resolve something.

^QFT.

This is a perfect example of the whole being less than the sum of it's parts. It had some highlights; Armin Mueller-Stahl's character for example, and the Guggenheim scene was dumb-fun in its purest form, but ultimately the plot failed to be enough to bind the parts in a coherent whole.
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post #24 of 24
2/18/09 at 2:48pm
For an action move I thought it was good although not as enjoyable as The Transporter.
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