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Summary: Usual
Review: This is your usual band of hoods needs something from somebody flick. The storyline kind of plays out like the way a City Transit Bus operates: it may take different routes, but in the end it always ends up in the same place. The movie was still watchable, but to drag a movie of this manner into a two hour flick is a bit of a stretch. Michael Douglas spends his days trying to get information out of a traumatized little girl's head. If he doesn't, then the band of hoods will kill his daughter. I have a question, "does the daughter ever get killed". I'm just saying, the children are either killed at the beginning of the movie or taken hostage. I just want something different just one time. Anyway, there is one thing I like about the movie and we all know what that is...."I'll never tell." Classic one-liner. This movie gets a C from me. Don't buy the DVD, you'll probably only watch it once.
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Summary: Don't Say A Word - Michael Douglas
Review: Don't Say A Word is a interesting, entertaining and exciting film. Starring "Traffic's" Michael Douglas" Making over $104 Million dollars worldwide at the box office. It's a mystery of I'll Never Tell that needs to be solved. In order for the father of a kidnapped girl "Douglas" to save his daughter he needs to find out a deadly secret from a disturbed young girl. It takes alot of time and power and thats just the beginning.
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Summary: Fantastic DVD- average movie
Review: I have given this DVD 5 stars because it contains the greatest collection of special features I have ever seen. It is a whole master class on film production, including screen tests, storyboards, lots of commentaries, dailies, a set tour, etc. The movie itself is a fairly average thriller, with some interesting moments. The bright spot is Brittany Murphy whose performance as a severly disturbed young woman is extremely well done. I must say, Sean Bean is one of my favorite villains. And any chance to hear his voice with that adorable accent is welcome.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: When a psychologist's (Michael Douglas) daughter is abducted. He must negotiate with the kidnappers on opening up the mind of a disturbed mental patient who knows the location to the 'treasure' they are after. It is up to Douglas to use his skills to get inside her head before his daughter gets it! Despite many familarites with other abduction films, Don't Say A Word is, itself an entertaining movie with great performances throughout. Douglas still hasn't lost his acting talent and manages to pull off the psychologist's role successfully. Although a slightly predictable and happy ending ensue we expect it and if one watches the film we can accept it. Overall, very entertaining film throughout.
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Summary: A tense enjoyable thriller
Review: This is a good movie. In the opening sequence we are introduced to the villain of the story. Bankrobber Patrick Koster (Sean Bean from "GoldenEye") steals a 10 million dollar diamond, but he gets conned out of it by one of his accomplices and is sent to prison.
Ten years later the diamond remains unfound and Koster is released from prison. The only person who knows the whereabouts of the diamond is the catatonic young woman Elisabeth (Brittany Murphy). Koster kidnaps Dr. Nathan Conrad's young daughter Jessie to make him get the information from Elisabeth's troubled mind. The story is nothing extraordinary, but the actors and actrices are a treat to watch. Michael Douglas, Sean Bean, Famke Janssen, Brittany Murphy, Oliver Platt, Jennifer Esposito. They're all right on their game, and that's why this movie WORKS!
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Summary: Well, i got a word or two about this..
Review: Ok, as in every year, M.Douglas pops up again in his obligatory role as a rich guy who's had his daughter kidnapped, wife murdered, money robbed, chiuhauah stolen or baseball cards thrown into a bowl of spaggheti. In this case it's the the first scenario.
The film consumes about half an hour at the start drlling your brain with how surrealy perfect Mike's family is. The wife is beautiful and has a broken leg which is why she stays in bed through out the film saying stuff that doesn't make her Confucius's daughter. Then Mike's also got a kid who is sweet as a bag of sugar and has the annoying habit of hiding everywhere in the house so that the perfect father of the century (that's Douglas again) can go find her and we can all hug as we are overtaken by the sweetness. Then we are shown Michael's great house, his cool furniture, his nice car, his witty colleagues, his great-going job and his nice hair along with other nice stuff too.
By the way, the film is filmed on this planet (i think....).
Right. After we are done with that the daughter gets kidnapped by mean people who want something that Michael doesnt fully understand but he's willing to go get it anyway (fetch, fetch).
And then, Michael goes and gets all the bad guys so he can restore perfectness and put new life in the dream of the perfect american family that exists only in stunnigly poor films like this.
There's not much more i can say, everything about this thing here is aweful, the script, the acting, the plot, the filming, the director, i couldnt find one thing that seemed to work.
And i happen to be a big Douglas fan too. Imagine i weren't...
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Summary: Dorky Snorer....
Review: My favorite scene (as a lifetime resident of Manhattan's upper west side) is the one with Michael Douglas driving home (to the upper west side). His wife asks him to pick up something at Fairway Market & he asks her what the cross street is for the store.She tells him 74th street. Correct. In the next scene he's carrying Fairway grocery bags to his apartment at the ANSONIA APARTMENTS! which are across 74th street from Fairway Market. Hunh?! Well, the rest of the movie has the same credibility.
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Summary: Intriguing story marred by typical Hollywood hokum
Review: The story is certainly intriguing enough, and I'll agree with the Amazon reviewer that that makes it suitable for 'rainy day viewing'. Unfortunately, it's too bad that the filmmakers seem so enamored with their own technique that they simply have to pile on one cliche after another: slow-motion flashbacks, cute kids that are unusually smart, tinkling piano music to remind us that it's a tender family moment, bedridden wives that suddenly turn into Linda Hamilton in "The Terminator". On top of that, we've got Jennifer Esposito pretending to be a tough cop and Michael Douglas wearing more makeup than usual. The whole thing almost begs for someone like Leslie Nielson to come in full Airplane mode and spout "I am serious - and stop calling me surely". Underneath all this is probably the makings of a potentially interesting story, one that ocassionally reveals itself when you least expect it. Otherwise, this is pretty routine affair.
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Summary: Rainy Day Special!
Review: What makes this rather far-fetched story line work reasonably well is the terrific acting skills of Michael Douglas and a strong supporting cast, including a bravura performance by Brittany Murphy (Girl Interrupted) as the disturbed yet profoundly gifted young woman caught in the snares of a secret that is tearing at the threads of her very sanity. Douglas is also superb in his portrayal of a psychiatrist determined to unlock the secrets to this tortured young woman's soul, but who gets locked in the grip of things he neither appreciates nor understands in the process. As a result, both of the two characters walk emotional and rational tightropes in trying to see this through to the conclusion. The visual effects surrounding the ordeal of the two main characters are both provocative and intriguing, and one senses the attempt on the part of the director to focus us into the evolving and progressive nature of their interior feelings through the kinds of synthetic environments they crash through on their way to the conclusion. Parts of the movie don't make a great deal of sense, and the plot is so complex and convoluted one wonders why they keep running, yet the production values and the acting are good enough to continue suspending one's critical faculties long enough to see what happens. As a surrealistic thriller this is only fair, but as an absorbing character study of the two main protagonists, it is entertaining enough and interesting enough to make you want to watch this movie. Like many of the current crop of thrillers, it is not terribly realistic, yet it rushes through so many exciting pathways with such sound and fury that one likes going along for the ride. This is a good action/suspense thriller! Enjoy!
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Summary: An intense thriller.
Review: Michael Douglas plays both an awesome psychiatrist and a terrific father of an eight year old girl in this tense thriller about a group determined to get a ten million dollar jewel lost in a robbery ten years ago. One of Michael's patients is the key to that jewel, and the terror group knows it. They kidnap his daughter, eight year old Jessie and unless Michael is prepared to use his psychiatric expertise to pry a six digit number from his patient's head, his daughter, and perhaps others will die. The only part I couldn't relate to was the mother of 8 yr old Jessie, played by Brittany Murphy, who spent most of her time with a broken leg in her bed. Her acting in some scenes was great, but for the most part I just felt she didn't act like the mother of a kidnapped daughter would act. Her grief didn't seem real, her terror not quite plausible, otherwise, a great film well worth your time.
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