hold2file
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Wow. What a great idea: Christina Applegate, Jean Reno, the reverse of the plot of Mark Twain's "Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" in the hero goes forward in time, and great cinematography. What a disappointment. Jean-Marie Gaubert (whose real name is Jean-Marie Poiré) has both miss-directed this mess and miss-cast it. All of the "tricks of the trade" are there: the beauty, the lost hero, the comic sidekick, the deceitful boyfriend, excellent cinematography and state-of-the-art special effects. But it all seems superficial. Applegate lacks passion, Reno lacks intelligence, and Christian Clavier (the side-kick) ISN'T funny.
A lot of money and effort seems to have been spent on this movie, and in other hands it might have been very good.
A lot of money and effort seems to have been spent on this movie, and in other hands it might have been very good.
Despite the title and the time frame (and the misunderstanding of the movie by other reviewers), this is not a typical war movie. This movie is really a biography and personal study of the obsessiveness and dedication that is necessary in the technological nature of warfare today. In one respect it is too bad that the movie stars John Wayne because the expectation is that it would feature a "gung ho" performance. Instead it is an amazing acting effort by Wayne as a suffering, crippled, insensitive Navy officer and author whose vision and commitment made much of the Naval air force possible. It is an excellent performance by Wayne and almost more of a "stretch" for him than Dustin Hoffman portraying an autistic "Rainman."
This movie is also shown on American TV as "The Professional."
As the previous reviewer stated, it has awesome performances by Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, and an unknown child actress named Natalie Portman. Reno's character is successful as an assassin mostly because he is so dysfunctional as a human being. Which is also why Oldman's character is so successful as a whacked-out corrupt cop. It takes Portman's transition form an innocent child, unaware of her parents' drug dealing, to a determined young woman to bring both Reno and Oldman a sense of humanity that is eventually their undoing.
This is a great movie with excellent acting, exciting, realistic action, and a neat plot. It shows Portman definitely as "an actress to watch in the future," and of the "whacked-out" villain roles by Oldman, this is probably the best.
As the previous reviewer stated, it has awesome performances by Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, and an unknown child actress named Natalie Portman. Reno's character is successful as an assassin mostly because he is so dysfunctional as a human being. Which is also why Oldman's character is so successful as a whacked-out corrupt cop. It takes Portman's transition form an innocent child, unaware of her parents' drug dealing, to a determined young woman to bring both Reno and Oldman a sense of humanity that is eventually their undoing.
This is a great movie with excellent acting, exciting, realistic action, and a neat plot. It shows Portman definitely as "an actress to watch in the future," and of the "whacked-out" villain roles by Oldman, this is probably the best.