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Review: Se7en??? Just alotta gore. Does Morgan Freeman's character undergo any change at all? I mean, aside from throwing a metronome across the room... FALLEN is a great film. See it and judge for yourself. Is it a thriller involving the supernatural? Or is it a thriller involving the most paranoid p.o.v. utterly enhanced by a Rolling Stones soundtrack? You decide. I think it well worth watching. But that's my humble opinion.
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Summary: Great movie
Review: This is one of the most unpredictable thrillers I've seen. Once you see it you have to watch it again to appreciate how well written and acted it is. It has a great plot and story line, and the ending is incredibly different. This is a must see movie.
This is definately in my all time favorites list.
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Summary: A Demonic Thriller
Review: Fallen is a horror movie, starring Denzel Washington and John Goodman. The movie is a story about a demon named, "Azazel," whom possesses human beings, moving from one human host to another. Azazel ends up stalking police detective John Hobbs (Denzel Washington), whom at first was occupying the body of a man whom is believed to be a serial killer. Hobbs catches him and is present during his execution, but after the serial killer died; Azazel moved to another human being and began pursuing him. Hobbs at first, does not know what's going on, but finds out that his stalker is Azazel and tries to find a way to kill the demon. Fallen is a great movie for those looking for a suspenseful and demonic thrill ride!
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Review: This was the best, most surprising ending in the history of film. GREAT movie.
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Summary: Good until the ending
Review: I was thoroughly enjoying this movie until the very end. If you actually listen to the ways that Denzel can stop Azazel, you will realize that the ending is silly and doesn't have to turn out that way. That ruined the entire thing for me. I don't want to give away any clues about the movie, but seriously- don't be surprised if the ending is a giant disappointment.
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Summary: "Art" imitating ART!
Review: Hey, I've got a great idea! How about, you go back and watch the Twin Peaks series, and then after watching that series, you completely rip it off and make a movie you claim as a "original". Fallen has fallen into the plagarism trap and tries to pass itself off as being it's own. If you go back and watch the Twin Peaks series you will find that Fallen is nothing more than an inferior [imitation] of perhaps the greatest television show of all time. From the general plotline all the way down to the details, the cat at the end of Fallen is a complete [copy-cat] of the owls in Twin Peaks. Go back, watch it, it's all there. Fallen has the cabin in the mountains much like the rural setting to Twin Peaks and even the last shot of the movie is a verbatum replay of the exact same shot at the end of Episode 16 of Twin Peaks. Trying not to give too much of either away both revolve around "carriers" going after the main character, who is in both, you guessed it, just happened to be police officers. The one difference is the poor quality of this Twin Peaks remake. It is nothing more than a b-rated [imitation] with A-list actors going along for the ride. Both main characters even sang for crying out loud! Twin Peaks must be rolling over in it's grave right now thanks to this harsh injustice it has been served. I could write for hours but to save me the disgust and you the boredom I will end this review by stating...WATCH TWIN PEAKS! Throw Fallen in the garbage and watch the original.
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Summary: Denzel meets Fred Flintstone
Review: The script of this film is fantastic. It begins in the classic 3 act structure whereby act 1 introduces you to the story. We start off with Denzel running in the snow and his internal thoughts being translated to us through voice over. He carefully states that he is in a near death experience, but because of the style of the genre that we have become used to, we assume that Denzel is going to die.
Act 2 takes us back into the life of Denzel prior to the moment when we engage with him at the beginning of the film. He works alongside his colleague, John Goodman, in a police station, and they are both eventually possessed by an evil spirit, or more rightly termed, a fallen angel. John Goodman becomes the antagonist possessed with the fallen angel, out to take possession of Denzel. Denzel is forced to impose a slow death on Goodman in the middle of nowhere, and takes a lethal nicotine injection so that when the spirit leaves Goodman and enters inside of him, he is already dead, thus putting an end to the travels of the fallen angel. Once the spirit realises this and enters inside of Denzel, we see Denzel running in the snow as at the beginning of the film.
Then, Act 3 kicks in. We still have in our minds that Denzel is about to die. And he does. But the internalisations that we hear are not the words of Denzel, but the fallen angel. The fallen angel manages to live on beyond Denzel's death by entering inside a white wolf, thereby double crossing the audience through the use of drama synchronised with a familiar voice. A very clever piece of writing.
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Summary: Don't mess with a demon.
Review: If you are with the opinion that The Bone Collector, also starring Denzel Washington, sucked because the "clues" left by the killer on purpose to make fun of the cops was way too exaggerated and it had a very lame ending, this is what you need to watch because this one is dealing with that both cases near perfect. Everything is just fine in this movie; cast, plot, direction, music, ect. The story will keep you nailed to your seat from the very beginning to the ending credits. And Rolling Stones will keep you watching the ending credits. The atmosphere is dark and mysterious, although it would be better if the writer didn't feel it necessery to reveal in the very beginning that the killer is in fact a body shifthing evil soul. Music is excellent, you can't help but get drawn into the movie with that music playing in the background. And it was so nice to see Elias Koteas in his role, someone i really admire for his Han Solo part in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But that's not the only suprise in the movie, it has its exceptional ending. I strongly disagree with the idea that ending was anywhere near predictable. I hate to give away clues about a film's ending, but my title already does. Only thing i was sad about the movie, i would love to see John Goodman playing basketball. About the DVD, it has not much but some cool features. Like, it has the best feature for me, both full screen and wide screen formats. And then we have a running commentary, trailer, cast & crew and similar stuff. The picture transfer of the film deserves credit and apperiance is ok, too. So this film is a buy. The only reason that this cool film got 4 stars from me is because, i've seen Se7en.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: I thought this movie was great. Well worth every penny I paid for it.
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Summary: The Less You Know Going In, The Better
Review: This was a terrific film that spends the first half being a mystery and the second half in gripping suspense. I thought the blending was unique and satisfying. The only problem with this picture is that the first second of any given commercial for it or the first few lines of any review of it give away the entire mystery so that the first half of the film could turn quite boring as you wait for something unexpected to happen. IF you do not know the plot (or can pretend you don't!) the first half is really intriguing, leading up to a powerful sequence revealing what is going on and then speeding and chilling at a nice pace towards an amazing ending. The film borders on horror without being a gore fest. Chief merit of this film, which bump it up to the four stars for me: Films dealing with supernatural villainy tend to become stupid when they don't respect the power of the villain. There is nothing wrong with creating a monster that is unrealistic or unusual, just there must be some sense of rules to how he functions. See that AWFUL mummy movie that they have now even, shamelessly, sequeled, for a perfect example of what not to do: make a monster in theory very scary for its power and then make him extremely unscary in practice when you realize that he can be stopped by tying his shoe laces together so he trips when he tries to chase you. The superficial conquering of or escaping from a creature of great power reveals his power to have been not anything worth being scared of. A power is not made scary as a promise but by a practice. SO, this film for making its villainy frightening and the resolution of the film one which depends on the particularities of the powers the film is about so that the ending result for the monster is fitting to its nature and not simply a dumb way to try an end a movie that started with a good but impractical (or impractically conceived) super-villainy and didn't bother to consider the ending when starting.
In honor of this film's use of intriguing character rules that set limits on how the evil can be destroyed and how it cannot (tying shoe laces together not being among the options), and its resolution in accordance with those rules, and in honor of a nicely frightening experience, I hereby bestow upon "Fallen" four Amazon.com stars. Oh yeah, Goodman and Sutherland... terrific.
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