The fact is I didn’t want to see this movie, I didn’t see this movie in the theaters and only saw this on DVD because I had ditched my friends a couple of times and if I ditched them for this I would lose the said friends hehe.
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The main reasons I didn’t want to see this movie were:-
1)I wasn’t enthusiastic about seeing a 62yr old unfit Michael Douglas as the star in a thriller with some action, Eva Logoria is no doubt hot but highly overrated (2 times hottest woman alive no way) and only prove a distraction.
2)I don’t care if the American president lives or dies and indeed there are more people who would prefer him dead haha.
3Lets assume you like me knew the plot, think about this
a)In a 100 min or so movie how many characters besides the stars can they develop (4 stars totally), 1 maybe maximum 2, now obviously one of these people (including the 4 stars)got to be our man.
b)so we have 6 possibilities before the movie even starts, how much time before we can reduce that to 1 or maybe 2 halfway through the movie at most?
c)Do you think the person who is supposed to die will die?
THINK ABOUT THIS....
I WAS RIGHT AND TRUST ME 90% OF You’ll WILL BE RIGHT TO...
This was what I thought at the beginning of the movie.
HERES WHAT I THOUGHT AT THE END.
1)Indeed Michael Douglas may not have been the best candidate for the role but he carried of his role with panache, his acting was convincing and once his role was explained he actually did a great job of playing his role.
However Eva was worst then expected, her acting talent was ordinary she looked ordinary and to add insult to injury she was fully dressed throughout , I mean if you are going to hire and actress for acting talent why would you hire Longoria and if you have hired her might as well have her wear skimpy clothing. Her awkwardness on screen especially in the tense scenes showed and her fully clothed role only became more and more irritating as the movie progressed.
2)Trust going by the amount of time they spent on developing the presidents character even an American citizen wouldn’t care if he lived or died. Even if I wanted him to die I would have been better of.
3)Trust me even the simplest of minds will reduce the possibilities to 2 halfway through the movie most smart people will reduce it one in the vicinity of the halfway mark.
SO BASICALLY WE HAVE A THRILLER WITH NO THRILLS AND A PERSON WHOSE LIFE AND DEATH WE Don’t CARE ABOUT?
So why the high rating?
1)The sub-plots and minor twists in this movie are really, really good (no doubt thanks to the book that I now cannot read for obvious reasons), they are the best part about the movie and actually make this movie good.
The insights given into the government agencies, their working and the people who work in them was also really interesting and good.
2)The acting was quite convincing from the entire cast save Eva and predictably so from the main cast of Douglas, Sutherland and bassinger.
3)Technically this movie was good but then which movie with the decent budget isn’t.
AND THE NUMBER ONE REASON.....
4)This movie exceeded my expectations I expected total Bullshit and I got OK, so it would be unfair to give it a low rating based on this.
In all an ordinary movie at best which is better mainly due to the sub-plots.
Watch only if you are in a mood for a thriller and you feel you have seen anything better out there.
-s Eva longoria, no thrills, don’t care for the main plot.
+/s Michael Douglas, good interesting insights, difficult to make a good thriller in movies.
+s exceeded expectations, great acting, great sub-plots.
total 7/10 (factoring in exceeded expectations and how difficult it is to make a good thriller, on absolute terms this is much less)
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