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Summary: Playing God
Review: This movie got an extra star only because I love David Duchovny. This really isn't a believable movie. For one thing, Duchovny a doctor? Okay, maybe if we saw him in scrubs or something it would be more believable. This movie raises too many questions than it answers. If you are going to watch this movie to kill sometime, maybe it's worth it. I have found that in my network of friends, either you love it and can't explain why or you hate it and can't explain why. My recommendation is this: rent it a few times before you buy. Make sure you really like this movie and can't explain why or else you may end up kicking yourself ...
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Summary: Bloody and Vulgar but Otherwise Great
Review: This movie has definite re-watch-ability. The plot is tight; the acting is good; and the script is packed with great lines, well-delivered. It kept even my mother, the proverbial Mikey, alternately on the edge of her seat and shaking with laughter. A true must-see for any fan of Timothy Hutton, David Duchovny, Angelina Jolie, dark action/comedies, or narrated movies in general.
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Summary: What the...
Review: This movie is terrible. Why David Duchovny, Timothy Hutton, and Anjelina Jolie decided to sign on for this film is the main thing I was thinking while I watched it. The film starts off with Duchovny's character explaining he used to be a doctor, but now he is just a drug addict. In the club where he is buying drugs a guy gets shot and Duchovny saves him. This leads Timothy Hutton's character, a gangster of some sort, to track him down for further services. This gets Duchovny mixed up with the wrong crowd who are in the midst of a gang war and an FBI sting operation. Anjelina Jolie plays Hutton's girlfriend who eventually falls for Duchovny. This movie is laughable it is so bad. Absolutly nothing is explained in the plot. What does Hutton do? He says he is bringing the American way of life to China, but how? Jolie falls for Duchovny, but why does she all of a sudden feel Hutton is a bad guy? And what is up with the rediculous portrail of the FBI? NONE of these things are explained in the movie. The acting is terrible, in part to awful direction Andy Wilson. I'm with Leonard Maltin, it is a X-File mystery how this movie ever got made.
Rating: 
Summary: Playing God
Review: Weak movie. Sometimes, it seems to be okay, but other times, I can't get through it. I love David Duchovny, but this is one movie I don't think he should have made. It's almost as if this was the wrong role for him. And the movie didn't flow well. Maybe that was just due to bad editing. Don't recommend buying this one until you have rented it and are sure you like it.
Rating:
Summary: Playing God
Review: Weak movie. Sometimes, it seems to be okay, but other times, I can't get through it. I love David Duchovny, but this is one movie I don't think he should have made. It's almost as if this was the wrong role for him. And the movie didn't flow well. Maybe that was just due to bad editing. Don't recommend buying this one until you have rented it and are sure you like it.
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Summary: Muddled
Review: What Hutton is doing in this is anyone's guess. I suspose he takes what's offered nowadays. Duchovny gets by on easy charm. His approach to acting may even be original, it's just hard to tell in the drive by shooting that is Hollywood film making. Actually, the bizarre humour of the second half rather won me over, but why America should want to habitually portray itself to the world as venal and indifferent to human suffering is one for 'The X-Files'.
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Summary: Subversive ,and Sublime!
Review: While this movie is not for everyone, if you have a wicked sense of humor and the taste for a witty, dark, and subversive look at life, this is the film for you! I can't tell you how much I LOVED this movie, both as a "cinema consumer", and as an employee at an independent video store. Not only did Playing God serve up large helpings of wry, sardonic humor and a wonderfully frenetic plot, it provided a nice-- and rare!-- opportunity to send the most jaded patron home with something "new". If you're easily offended by violence or irreverent humor, please stay far away; if not (and I'm guessing that if you're a Duchovny fan the answer is a ringing "NO!" :) then buckle up for a wild ride. The only fault I have with the movie is based on industry heresay: apparently in it's original incarnation it featured a much heavier, grittier romantic angle between Duchovny and Jolie, which would have been a welcome edition... oh, well, guess you can't get everything you want.
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Summary: POINTLESS
Review: Why, oh why, oh why did I stay up late into the night to watch this? I had read the reviews which were dismal. I thought I would give it a chance. For one thing, I did not know that Angelina Jolie was in this film. It alone would have been enough reason to avoid it. I just don't like her. However, she was not that bad. David Duchovny is not convincing to me as a film star. He is too wooden and not versatile enough. He does not disappear into his roles, and to me, despite never really watching the X-Files, he will always be only Fox Mulder. As a doctor (which he plays in this film), Eugene Sands, I can maybe believe that. As a drug addict, not really. Somehow getting mixed up with some weird criminals, Timothy Hutton for one, who is a terrible criminal, is just not believable. He just does not have the face for it. Sands saves some guy who gets shot in a nightclub. Jolie (Hutton's girlfriend) sees it and is amazed. Sands goes home, gets high, and the next thing he knows, total strangers are in his house taking him away to meet someone. He meets counterfeiter Hutton and his girlfriend and entourage of bodyguards. All the while Duchovny treats us to some of his dimestore philosophy in the form of voiceovers. It takes itself too seriously and really is a meandering, terrible, and pointless story. Do not waste your time.
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