SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling
Freaktana A Major Disappointment
ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.
charleyroth-205-559528 A boring mish-mash of crap! We had taped it and it was indicated to be a four star movie so we watched it. How does one get revenge on an unknown someone who has to be nuts to give it more than one star? The French female lead has lips that made you think that if you had to leave her for a while that all you had to do was stick her to the wall with them and she would be there when you returned.I kept hoping that Harvey's boomerang would come back and hit him in the head and put us all out of the misery of this whatever-it-was.We know someone who says he is a "screen writer" but has never yet sold anything after years and years of trying. When we see a piece of stuff like this, we turn to each other and say, "Dan could have written that!"
gringogigante SPOILERS!! I feel like I got drunk and wandered into the middle of a very strange conversation between a guy who is obsessed with dog racing, a crazy French woman, and a caveman. I think I can see what they were trying for, but oh my did it fall short. It was disted, disorienting, and confusing.You start the movie and some enormous leaps of logic are made about the cabbie being the killer....why the heck did he focus on this cab? How could he have noticed this cabbie's freaking ring, but not a cab number or company? Then you're transported to the future where there is a very strange French woman that sleeps is crazy, drinks a lot, and sleeps around. Who is this crazy lady and why is she obsessed with her neighbor.Then comes Harvey Kietel. Man, I love HK, but the direction, editing, SOMETHING was just off with him. Talk about a caveman. My gosh.I gave this every chance I could, but it was not good. I gave it two stars due to a couple of cool cinematography shots, angles, etc. But that is it. Don't waste your time.
darciecal ***SPOILERS***SPOILERS***SPOILERS**** I watched this movie because I'm a big Norman Reedus fan. I would have preferred if he'd had more screen time for character development. My review contains SPOILERS! Alice (Emmanuelle Beart), a small woman with lips like a cartoon duck, is supposedly so beautiful she can get any man she wants. Predictably, she wants the one man who doesn't want her: Vincent (Reedus), who finds her annoying. He's also hung up on his wife's murder of 3 years prior, which he believes was committed by a cabbie in a yellow cab with a dented door, and wearing a red shirt and a ring. Now, you'd think they'd be able to find this guy. Granted, there are tons of cabs in NYC, but not all of them are yellow. You think they'd be able to find cabs that were on the road at that time and check for dented doors, and also check dispatch records to see which cabbies were driving. But no, with all the information they have, they can't find the killer.Alice decides that if Vincent can only get over his wife's murder (by killing the killer), he would immediately and automagically fall in love with her, despite the fact that he doesn't really like her. She then dupes aging cabbie Roger (Harvey Keitel) to think that the most beautiful woman in the world could fall instantly in love with an aging cabbie who has a boomerang fetish. She dents his cab door (no explanation how she could duplicate the size, shape & location of a dent she's never seen), buys him a red shirt (as if the cabbie wouldn't have changed his shirt in 3 years) and a ring, which again we don't know how she could duplicate.She steers Roger toward Vincent, who arranges Roger's death but does such a bad job of it (despite being helped by a gang) that Roger lives, seeks out Alice (returns to her like a BOOMERANG, get it?) and after Alice tearfully confesses everything to him, decides he still wants her. After doing a weird dance with a booze glass at a jazz club, he insists that he and Alice leave NYC. The minute he falls asleep in her presence, she murders him. Since the NYC police are portrayed as completely incompetent, we are left with the idea she gets away with it and she, Vincent, and his dog all live happily ever after, because of course the need to avenge his wife really was all that was needed for Vincent to fall madly in love with Alice.I liked the look of this film, and I did keep wondering what would happen next. The acting is decent but Reedus is only given a one-dimensional character to play, and the numerous implausibilities hampered it for me. I generously give it a 7, because it gave me a couple of hours to look (on and off) at Norman Reedus.
starpatchsam Not much of a plot and until I read other reviews I could barely figure out what the whole point of the movie was. I cannot believe Harvey Keitel would be in a movie like this. It needed A lot more explanation and at least some action. The dog races had nothing to do with the story. They needed to have the wife in the movie so the viewers could at least try to understand the importance of any of the story At the end you didn't even feel like it should be the end. Just as confusing and boring as the rest of the movie. The actors were not very good as you can tell by looking up their past movie history they haven't done too well before or after this movie. Thank goodness I had a free Redbox code so at least I didn't waste any money just wasted time watching it.
