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Summary: Disappointing
Review: My review may be tainted by my distaste for Jeff Bridges, but his presence throughout this movie is a real downer. The man is a ham, an eye-sore. This performance is typical of his recent work. Robbins, on the other hand, is brilliant as always. Cusack an excellent supporting actress as well. The plot is OK, the cinematography fine. You get a little lost, but then again you are supposed to I guess. The ending is not storybook, which is a welcome change to most of the garbage that we see these days. However, it is entirely implausible. And for a master plan to hinge on so many variables takes away from the overall movie. However, if this was Harrison Ford playing the sad paranoid, with many of the easily discardable scenes cut out, this movie could have been far more digestible.
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Summary: Engaging movie, terrific ending
Review: Definitely worth seeing. Do not read any reviews or watch any trailers. This movie is much better without any prior knowledge. A must for anyone who likes intelligent suspense.
Rating: 
Summary: Awful!
Review: This movie was horrendous. What a terrible ending. If I had seen this movie in the theater I would have walked out MAD!
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Summary: Not possible, but hey it's got a message.
Review: I am sure the MTV director of this movie is happy with his "bad guys can win" message at the end, but I agree with a reviewer who said the bad guys would have to have ESP. It's that simple. Die Hard had more realism than this flick. Another great example of a movie written backwards so they could reach the ending they (the writers) desired.
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Summary: Alternate title - Villians with ESP!
Review: I am absolutely stunned by the rating this movie gets. It was absolutely horrible. The plot required such a huge series of coincidences that its success could not have been by chance. It did in fact require ESP. So many idiotic things were done by the "hero(s)" that it is a wonder that they have operated toasters without killing themselves. Its hard to describe whats wrong with the movie without "ruining it" for those who have not seen it, but one scene that is especially stupid is when the son is seen in the back of the delivery van. What when on there behind the scenes? "Hey kids, we're going for a ride in a liberty express truck today, and we're going to drive like lunatics!" This Movie was horrible!
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Summary: Good Premise Undermined by Improbable Conclusion
Review: The film starts out quite nicely as a sort of Twilight-Zoneish paranoid thriller (remember the episode where all of the neighbors accuse each other of being aliens? Well, this time it's terrorists)buoyed by terrific performances all around, but loses it entirely at the climax. The ultimate resolution doesn't make much sense and carries with it all of the incoherent ingredients of a fever dream. I tried to figure out the logistics of the villain's plan, and it was just too risky. Too many things could go wrong with what they were planning. To reveal these errors could be regarded as spoilers, so I am trying to keep it vague, but many other customers at the video store tend to agree with me. Maybe the alternate ending on the DVD makes more sense.
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Summary: Surprising ending
Review: There is one thing that makes this movie worth watching and that's the ending. I never was so surprised by an ending than in this movie. And more: The ending is probably the only one that actually makes sence. So, just for the ending, WATCH IT!
Rating: 
Summary: WONDERFUL, A MUST SEE
Review: This movie is fantastic. One of the best films i have seen in years. Terrific acting from Bridges, Cushack, and Robbins. Suberb directing and photography and an excellent script make it the most orriginal film in years. The DVD is also very very good. It is also filled with wonderful extras like a documentory and an alternate ending. Not to mention a commentary by bridges and robbins. Everyone in this movies deserves an award for excellency.
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Summary: CALM DOWN
Review: WARNING: This is a smart scary intelligent piece of Cinema very possibly the best movie of this year.This is not a movie for all of you people looking for a predictable 80 min. splatter flick.
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Summary: An interesting movie, but...
Review: I began watching this film not knowing what to expect, other than what I read on the short blurb on the back of the DVD packaging.Initially I was intrigued, only to be disgusted by an improbable sequence of events at the end. Without giving away the ending (which is rather interesting), I can only say that the final car chase is a ridiculous sequence of events that could probably never happen in D.C. without someone getting caught by the police. Furthermore, how the movie's antagonist could have set up this chase to lead to the movie's unpredictable end result is also puzzling.. For what it's worth, this film was enjoyable, a good romp I suppose, with a very bleak message at the end. It did keep me guessing most of the way through. Sound was moderate, nothing special even in Dolby 5.1 with a home theater system. Picture quality was nice and crisp. For those of you who own JVC DVD players, be advised, accessing the special features section of this DVD can lead to some strange hardware malfunctions. When I tried watching the "Alternate Ending" my player froze, then would not play this movie at all. I finally had to hard reset the player in order for it to work again. (Instructions for this can be found on www.jvc-america.com, under customer support FAQs) This is a known problem with this DVD and JVC players. Perhaps a later pressing will rectify the problem, or JVC will release a firmware upgrade.
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