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Arlington Road

Arlington Road

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: One of my favorite movies....
Review: i was a fan of Ehren Kruger after i heard he was writing Scream 3. when i heard that i started looking into his earlier work and found Arlington Road. the immediate thing i heard was that the ending was awesome and something not seen in most mainstram movies. Arlington Road is one hell of a movie. it is wonderfully acted and directed and the movie moves along at a quick crisp pace. like i said above the ending is awesome and has to be seen to be appreciated.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: stunning
Review: thuis is a good film

great acting all the way through and the plot is damn fine too

the twists in the stroy kept me hooked throughout and the ending is absolutely mind blowing

what a film

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Chiling
Review: WOW this was a chiling story! How the pesky nieghbor frames this other guy and the FBI jsut blames one person. Everyone thinks this guy is crazy about his nieghbor being who he really is a terrorist. He tries to prove he is but still. And whatat the terriostist does at the end...oh my. I never expected it, it was scary!! Thought it was well acted, a must see for all movie lovers.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Don't let the Contour detour you
Review: This is an intelligent and compelling look at our government and how it has given birth to the Tim McVeigh's of the world. Things are not always what they seem or what our mass media tells us. This film is a wake-up call. All the performances are great, and this is the film which made me take notice of Joan Cusack. Watch the subtleties of her work. I was thrown off momentarily by 2 different red Ford Contours, but this was only a film-makers error, and they are meant to represent the same car. I was disappointed that they did not address this error in the DVD commentary.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the best movies ever!
Review: This has to be one of the best movies i've ever seen. I was surprised at how good it was because i had never even heard of it. I t is an excellent, if very depressing movie, and has most surprising ending ever(besides the sixth sense) so if you like movies that are a little different from your typical Hollywood blockbuster, check this one out. you wont be disappointed!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Definitely worth seeing
Review: Perhaps it really was marketing that kept this film from being a success, and that's a shame. Jeff Bridges, a very underrated actor, is very good in this film about paranoia and conspiracies. Joan Cusack is also memorable. Overall, a great premise, solid execution, and remarkable conclusion.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Everyone except you
Review: I absolutely loved this movie.
Tim Robbins was really, really, better than good. With Jeff Bridges, who is a terrorism teacher whose wife was killed, while working as an agent for the FBI. Brillant!! Five stars isn't enough

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: RE: Makes too many assumptions.
Review: Maybe I wasn't paying close enough attention, but the ending completely caught me off guard. I was so engrossed with the movie and the excellent acting therein.

You get the feeling though that director Mark Pellington would not be shy to have a non-standard plot line. Half way through the movie I found myself wondering if Tim Robbin's character really was a terrorist. Especially when Tim Robbin's character confronted Jeff Bridges' character. For a moment I wondered if Mark would risk making a movie about a terrorist that isn't actually a terrorist. But then I realized that would be a pretty boring movie.

Getting back to the end of the movie, it brought the whole thing together. It tied in with the classes that Jeff Bridges' character taught. He said in his classes that these terrorist that blow up buildings usually have good things going for them (just got a raise, etc.). Everyone that knows them says, "I just never imagined that he would do something like that." The question is: Why would they commit an act of terrorism? They seem to have no motive. The answer? Watch the movie.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Quite implausible, though still holds your attention
Review: This is yet another thriller about an evil neighbor (played by Tim Robbins) settling into a typical Norman Rockwell-ish community and of course, sooner or later, brings hell into the life of a family, with Jeff Bridges investigating the newcomer's past. I liked both of the performances by the leads and the director does indeed know how to work up some occassionally genuinely frightening chills. But overall the script is not as strong as it should have been and for anyone who at least has half a brain wouldn't believe most of the goings-on in the film. Yet another thing I enjoyed about the film is how fast paced it is and how interestingly (if, once again, implausibly) the film worked up to an exciting ending and drove home a potent message: good guys don't always finish first. I'd say that this would have been a much better thriller if the writer added some more surprises, took out some silly contrivances, and added at least one original idea!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: At last a decent ending in an American action movie...!
Review: I would imagine that this film doesn't appeal to the average American viewer, but see it! Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins give first-rate performances in this great thriller which tells a story about a college professor who thinks that his neighbor is a terrorist. Bridges hasn't been this good since The Big Lebowski and Robbins is absolutely terrifying as the poker-faced Oliver Lang.

The opening scene - which is one the best I've seen recently - sets the tone for the things to come. The plot is good, although there are some weaknesses. For instance the course on terrorism, which Michael Faraday (Bridges) teaches, seems a bit trivial to be taught by a history professor. (Well, what do I know, I'm a student from Europe...)

Anyway, the film does remind me of films by the great Hitchcock (see North by Northwest or The Man Who Knew Too Much...), and the claustrophobic mood is great.

And last but not least, the ending kicks -well you know what. It's definately in the same league as Sixth Sense. At last a great ending in an American action movie!


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