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silenthunterstudios
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I had the chance to see it tonight, and passed. Thx for the heads up. Better to spend the money on renting it, and some pop your own popcorn, than a hundred bucks at the movies!
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I saw it last night; and, it is not even worth the price of a DVD rental. It is a stupid, dull, poorly acted, poorly directed, low budget, plodding, contrived, piece of trash. If you liked that classic scene from Rambo II where Stallone hides in the mud along a river bank and pounces on some unsuspecting thug, you are going to re-experience that moment here; they obviously ran out of ideas and used that ploy at least ten times in this mess. This movie shows what happens when an interesting thought goes horribly wrong. See Karl Urban run around half naked in snow while Moon Bloodgood spends the entire movie bundled up as a shapeless baglady. I am surprised there have not been a series of lawsuits from various cast members to force the distributor to delete their names from the credits - for anyone involved with this thing - the release of this movie was certainly a career limiting move. This thing makes Istar look good.
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The Washington Post absolutely blasted the film in its review by Stephen Hunter, a suspense novelist of no mean ability in his own right. He tore into the film, summing it up as follows:
To those who say that I should not expect better of Hollywood, I will note that we have moved into a "post-literate" culture where people obtain what information they have from means other than reading except for the snippets, here and there, that they pick up from the Internet. In this situation, it seems to me that those people who produce the materials from which people DO gain their information have an obligation to get it more or less right. I will note that we have all excoriated the various TV news shows for their inability to get reports on forearms correct. We are distressed because the misleading information being passed out is injurious to our cause. Well, bad history can be, and freqently is, injurious to any number of people.
To see the entire review, look here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041201836.html
To those who say that I should not expect better of Hollywood, I will note that we have moved into a "post-literate" culture where people obtain what information they have from means other than reading except for the snippets, here and there, that they pick up from the Internet. In this situation, it seems to me that those people who produce the materials from which people DO gain their information have an obligation to get it more or less right. I will note that we have all excoriated the various TV news shows for their inability to get reports on forearms correct. We are distressed because the misleading information being passed out is injurious to our cause. Well, bad history can be, and freqently is, injurious to any number of people.