A Perfect World

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Summary: Great movie
Review: Despite the what the others say, this really is a great movie. I understand why the others on here are angry but they really don't comment on how great of a story this is. The ending made my Mom cry when she saw it. Eastwood gives a good performance and I persoanlly think is Costner's best performance. Which is a break for him because he hasn't acted in any good movies besides maybe Field Of Dreams.

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Summary: Another Great Movie DVD Buyers Miss Out On
Review: Enough's been said about how good a movie A Perfect World is. I give it 5 stars because it is a touching story of an escaped convict bonding with a young boy who, at his age, needs a father to look up to. In this day and age where divorce runs rampant and single parents are a dime a dozen, this movie definitely strikes a cord.
The day this movie gets to DVD, that's when it will be "A Perfect World".

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Summary: COSTNER AND EASTWOOD ARE FANTASTIC
Review: I am a big fan of Clint Eastwood as a director. He is one of the few directors working today who has mastered the use of subtlety. In two of my favorites (Unforgiven and Absolute Power) he commands ensembles of actors with ease and still maintains his use of small camera movements and letting the characters small moments tell the story. However I think he out does himself with A Perfect World. The slow and sure pacing of a master director combined with a moving story and three of the best performances around. The young boy, Costner, and Eastwood are all fabulous. This is a powerfully moving story of missed chances and father/son regret. However I won't lie, the film has one fatal flaw: Laura Dern is awful. If only they had simply written her out completely this would have been a perfect film. But if you can put her minor role aside this a great film worthy of your viewing.

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Summary: This is a very good movie
Review: I am not a Kevin Costner fan and have found his acting to be mechancial and pretentious. BUT, Eastwood pulls this film together to rank among many of his best works and made me take a different look at Costner's performance. The plain-ness of Costner as a non-discript working man gone down the wrong path is very believable as is his subtle hints at his own lost childhood. The young boy who plays the hostage is fabulous and often times it seems as if in his innocence is actually living this story more than acting. His little tattered halloween costume is a touch of genius in the film and keeps tugging at your heart strings as well as lending a slightly macbre tone to the whole thing. Costner's character constantly tilted back and forth between slightly bad with a good intentions to a bad guy trying to claim a thread of decency and had a good juxtaposition with Eastwood's hard cop with a decent heart. Laura Dern didn't add much to the movie and her role could have been played with a little more intensity by several other peers of hers. BUT, see this movie. I saw this years ago, long before Mystic River, but they both have a similar thread despite Mystic River being much more edgy and an all around better written story.

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Summary: Watching this movie was a waste of time.
Review: I just watched this movie for the first time, and I'm not impressed. The violence and child abuse are too intense for the type of movie it is and are also very disturbing. Watching it gave me a bad feeling. A lot of the storylines are not very believable either. It's hard to believe that an escaped convict could go undetected for as long as Butch Haynes did. He was always around people who were listening to newscasts about him, and once he was even in the car with a family who went through a road block. The storylines where he wants the little boy Phillip, whom he is holding hostage, to enjoy Halloween are also weak. The only salvation for this movie are the compelling performances by Kevin Costner and the little boy who plays Phillip. I can think of a lot of other movies I would rather watch or recommend for others to watch.

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Summary: A PERFECT WORLD
Review: I THINK THAT THE MOVIE A PERFECT WORLD WAS A TERIFFIC MOVIE AND KEVEN COSTNER AND CLINT EASTWOOD ARE BOTH GREAT ACTORS I ALSO THINK THE PERSON WHO PLAYED THE 7 YEAR OLD KID WAS GREAT IT WAS A PERFECTLY PUT TOGETHER MOVIE AND A GREAT STORY LINE

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Summary: Boring movie but good!
Review: I think this movie is really good it can be cheesy at some parts but it has good actors in it like Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and Laura Dern. I don't know why they put Kevin Costner as a bad guy. He usually plays a good guy in his movies. But he was great playing one. Clint Eastwood also did a good job directing it and the performances are good too. I also think the kid who played the 7-year-old did a good job. I think he's the next Haley Joel Osmont but it's too late now because the kid has to be like 15-years-old but he did have good acting. People if you hadn't seen this movie yet go rent it you will like it.

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Summary: Wonderful and Touching
Review: I've already given up on three distinctly different reviews for this movie. So I'll stop wasting my day and just say . . . what a great, great movie. It speaks volumes about childhood, fatherhood, violence, and the responsibilities of men. Certainly the best I've ever seen from Costner, and I realize that's not saying much, but for the first time I can recall, he actually IS his character. Absolutely brilliant movie.

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Summary: The Most Underrated Movie Of All Time
Review: It isn't fair that such good movies this one don't get the recognition they deserve. A Perfect World??? No, no, no. A Perfect Movie. Kevin Costner is superb, Oscar worthy. Clint is fabulous, Oscar worthy himself as Supporting Actor and Director. It's a classic bandit robbing spree kidnap story, but Kevin just breathes such life and energy into Butch... "Are you bad Butch?" "Oh yeah." You just love him by the end of the movie that you want him to succeed and get away. Stellar film and as good as an underrated film can get.

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Summary: The good, the bad, & the ugly
Review: Kevin Costner gives (for me) his most compelling role to date as Butch Haines escaped convict. Butch, despite some other reviews, is neither good nor bad but he is (definitely) essentially good at heart.

You have to wonder about the type of person Butch would have been given different circumstances. That's not to excuse his crimes because I definitely believe that adults are responsible for their actions regardless of the upbringing that they had. Nonetheless, Butch is definitely a thoughtful and caring individual. He admires family men and abhors violence against children. Self motivated above all else but still caring. He's done what he had to for freedom. But is it fair that he suffered so much as a youth while perhaps Red (Clint Eastwood) is ultimately the most responsible for turning him into the harderned criminal that he is? That's the essential question. What's right, who's responsible, and who's to blame.

Clint is great (as always) as the grizzled hard nosed Texas Ranger assigned to hunt Haines down. But it is his direction that has to really be admired. Subtle yet powerful. The story is what drives the greatness of the film though. Good guys who aren't so good and bad guys who aren't so bad and the different ugly sides of many of the players. Why is it that Haines' escape partner is such a scumbag while Haines is intelligent and compassionate (at times). Why is a conservative law man like Red sympathetic towards Butch while the FBI man is so callous? How can a sweet little kid both admire Butch and have the guts to stop an atrocity at the same time?

Intelligent, funny, and dramatic A Perfect World has it all. A fabulous film.