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The beginning of this movie already gives away how the rest of the
movie is. In the beginning the movie tries to be style-full and
surprising but it instead is simple and predictable, as is the rest of
the movie. The movie is filled with countless predictable and foremost
improbable moments. The movie tries to distinct itself from other genre
movies but in the end this movie is nothing more than a below average
thriller that is watchable but most certainly no must-see.

The movie mainly tries to be different mostly through its characters.
It's nice to see that this time the lead is a strong independent
female, played by Jamie Lee Curtis. They try to give her a strong and
emotional involving personality but most sequences in which they try to
achieve this don't really work out, with also as a result that the
movie is filled with some too long and unnecessary sequences. It also
tries to be different with its villain and it takes a more emotional
and realistic approach, rather than a 'simple psychopathic
non-explaining' approach of the villain. Also problem here is that this
mostly doesn't work out. Not really the actor or character's fault but
more of the story and directing-style, that provides the movie with
some completely ridicules and unlikely moments. Because of this the
most emotional and realistic things don't work out in the movie, which
causes this movie to be a rather failed one, as a thriller.

I still sort of appreciate and like it that this movie takes a
different approach and tries to be original. It still distinct this
movie from most other genre movies. However something went terribly
wrong during the process of making this movie. Instead of original and
surprising the movie is predictable and simple, despite its original
approach of the story. The movie is too simply put together by Kathryn
Bigelow and the movie too often takes the simple and easy road, which
is the main reason why the movie mostly is predictable as well as
unlikely.

Really the worst thing about this movie is that its filled with some
amazingly bad and unlikely sequences. It makes the story even more
ridicules and improbable. Once again the movie makes the police look
like narrow-minded persons who can't seem to arrest a chimp and only
thrust on their own instincts, rather than facts. It all adds up to the
fact that this movie its story is unlikely as well as perhaps a bit
ridicules. Especially the way Eugene Hunt (Ron Silver) and Megan Turner
(Jamie Lee Curtis) keep finding each other gets highly unlikely and
ridicules after a while. Especially the ending is disappointingly
ridicules and far from satisfying.

The acting all around is quite solid. Jamie Lee Curtis plays a fine
strong character and Ron Silver is a good enough actor. Not really
convincing enough as a psychopath but a fine performance nevertheless.
Clancy Brown is also good, although he always has been a better
voice-actor. It was also fun to see Tom Sizemore in an early and small
role, already acting crazy as always. Also small roles are there for
Matt Craven, Richard Jenkins and Kevin Dunn, among others.

The style of the movie is quite disappointing. It tries desperately at
moments to be almost artistic like. This doesn't always work out and
instead are mostly too distracting and in contrast with the rest of the
movie and story, that is quite simple. The weird and simple Brad Fiedel
musical score also doesn't add much good to the movie its style and
atmosphere. Also this movie isn't the best example of character
treatment. It doesn't always lay the right emphasis.

Only still sort of watchable for the most hardened thriller-fan, that
wants to see something different. Just don't expect too much of it all.

5/10.

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It was gratuitously violent. It was interminably long. It was
completely implausible. It was, as I remember it, from start-to-finish,
excruciating to watch. Most memorably, the last 20 minutes! What more
could you HOPE for from a relentlessly bad movie?!

I have never flat-out walked out on a movie, and this was no exception,
but as close as I've ever come! I sat through it to the bitter, insipid
end, FULLY CONFIDENT that it would get BETTER as it went along.. it had
to!.. It just HAD to! Well, silly me, "hope springs eternal", to my
total disappointment, and dismay.. it DID NOT! Just more and more
violent and unbelievable! ..FIFTEEN SHOTS out of a six-shooter,
{somehow.. hellooo.. director??!}, and the guy is still rising up to
WALK, and even RUN AWAY??? Yea, riiight! Come on!!!

Now.. don't get me wrong, I am very fond of Jamie Lee Curtis, and at
the time I was quite set in my opinion that Ron Silver was about as
handsome as it gets!~*blink-blink*~ I think liking the actors in the
film made it worse! I thought, "Why would they do a thing like that?!!"

I often wonder why Louise Fletcher, {who has quite an interesting bio
bit to be found right within these IMDb walls}, has never taken but a
few HAPPY movie roles! Her stint as "Nurse Ratched" was in a class by
itself, in an all-time classic masterpiece of a movie. They couldn't
have done that one better, but that's separate story.

This piece took what could have potentially been an ultimately
triumphant story, and from my vantage point, ran amok with it,
hopelessly destroying it!

I've read critics reviews saying it was "fast-paced", and indeed it was
that, but.. assuming this is a plus, "fast-paced" couldn't make up for
the rest of the gaping flaws in the muddled mess, and at no point did
it ring true for me. It was like a bad wind-up doll.. like "Chucky" on
super-duper-long-life batteries, with BACK-UP! It just kept going.. and
GOing.. and GOING!

No, this one did not have me in its grips, on the edge of my seat in
eager anticipation of what was coming next. It had me checking the
bottom of my box of popcorn searching for the last tiny ort, gritting
my teeth in eager anticipation of an end to the remaining, seemingly
endless minutes of this relentlessly bloody, bad film.

A better title would have been, "THE THING THAT WOULDN'T DIE!"

Boo-hiss!.