Category: Directed by Michael Apted
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Denise Richards is not convincing as a nuclear physicist. That statement made, Apted might get her best performance ever in this film. It’s still awful. Her lack of charisma is painful; one has to wonder how Brosnan and Apted were able to put up with it, given the rest of the film’s considerable accomplishments. The…
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With Conrad L. Hall shooting it and James Horner (pre-Titanic and fame) scoring, Class Action is great looking and sounding. Apted’s composition is frequently excellent. But it’s a vehicle for Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and it, rather unfortunately, eventually just works on that vehicle level. There’s no real surprises, no real content… just running time with…
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Thanks to a frantic trip through the New York skyline and Danny Elfman’s familiar score, Extreme Measures’s opening credits play like an unused Batman sequel opening… until the two naked guys run out on to the street. It’s an odd opening (and the naked guys and their plight are compelling enough one forgets Elfman until…
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Should be good, but isn’t thriller has blind musician Madeleine Stowe getting a cornea transplant, only to have someone target all the recipients of the donor’s organs. Aidan Quinn and James Remar are cops, Peter Friedman is the doctor. All of them are romantically interested in Stowe, maybe dangerously. Great performance from Stowe can’t save…
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