idcook
Joined Apr 2006
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A thriller made for people who haven't yet escaped their teenaged levels of perception. That space where you're not yet aware enough to recognize how smart your aren't and may never be. Easy explanations and escapes for everything.
This could've been a good movie if they'd considered the subject more seriously.
This could've been a good movie if they'd considered the subject more seriously.
In an effort to make something of him the folks involved in getting this film made could only have been hoping his name would be enough to make it appear they had something to offer the film-going public.
To support this, sorely needed, are a litany of music and dance routines sprinkled throughout the picture. Which gave me the impression that the studio saw this as an opportunity to get some of their less useful (thus less profitable) performers a chance to earn their keep and maybe a little practice for future work.
Rooney, his usual heavy-handed delivery telegraphing every line that comes out of his mouth, is surrounded by people who're usually sitting down. Even he's seated often enough to keep us from paying too much attention to his diminutive height. By this means, at one point, we get to see Mickey talk down to his former employer, a small-time crime boss who comes replete with slick black hair and mustache villainy.
Oh yeah and tough-talking Mickey has to be double-teamed by a couple of thugs who're each twice his size.
To support the illusion they also provide us Sally Forrest, a lady short enough to make it possible to believe she'd could regard Rooney an attractive catch.
Beyond the big-name music acts this film has little to offer and drags from start to finish.
To support this, sorely needed, are a litany of music and dance routines sprinkled throughout the picture. Which gave me the impression that the studio saw this as an opportunity to get some of their less useful (thus less profitable) performers a chance to earn their keep and maybe a little practice for future work.
Rooney, his usual heavy-handed delivery telegraphing every line that comes out of his mouth, is surrounded by people who're usually sitting down. Even he's seated often enough to keep us from paying too much attention to his diminutive height. By this means, at one point, we get to see Mickey talk down to his former employer, a small-time crime boss who comes replete with slick black hair and mustache villainy.
Oh yeah and tough-talking Mickey has to be double-teamed by a couple of thugs who're each twice his size.
To support the illusion they also provide us Sally Forrest, a lady short enough to make it possible to believe she'd could regard Rooney an attractive catch.
Beyond the big-name music acts this film has little to offer and drags from start to finish.
I never made the least effort to see this when it came out in theaters. I KNEW it was going to ruin the story, and I wasn't at all comfortable with the cast selected to fill the major roles.
But I happened upon it on television tonight.
This thing is all but a total bore to sit through. I switched the channel a couple of times to see if anything else was on then decided to give it a chance for one reason and one reason only: Choreography. HA!
I sort of enjoyed the ballet like movements of Brad Pitt. He used a sort of signature trot when he ran and is especially amusing when he takes medium length leaps before jamming his sword into an opponents neck. His movements give a measure of grace to his one-on-one swordplay scenes. This was the only thing that made it possible to believe that he was the preeminent warrior of the story.
Early on, Pitt's light gymnastics led me to expect beautiful full-scale battles for Troy, but such was not the case. No one else knew how to dance.
The only other oddly distinguished battle character was a grizzly large guy, with a long handled hammer as his weapon, that I supposed to be Hercules.
The music was unsteady and often needlessly schmaltzy.
Overall this film, despite having come from brilliant source, is entirely uninspired except for Brad Pitt's dancing.
But I happened upon it on television tonight.
This thing is all but a total bore to sit through. I switched the channel a couple of times to see if anything else was on then decided to give it a chance for one reason and one reason only: Choreography. HA!
I sort of enjoyed the ballet like movements of Brad Pitt. He used a sort of signature trot when he ran and is especially amusing when he takes medium length leaps before jamming his sword into an opponents neck. His movements give a measure of grace to his one-on-one swordplay scenes. This was the only thing that made it possible to believe that he was the preeminent warrior of the story.
Early on, Pitt's light gymnastics led me to expect beautiful full-scale battles for Troy, but such was not the case. No one else knew how to dance.
The only other oddly distinguished battle character was a grizzly large guy, with a long handled hammer as his weapon, that I supposed to be Hercules.
The music was unsteady and often needlessly schmaltzy.
Overall this film, despite having come from brilliant source, is entirely uninspired except for Brad Pitt's dancing.