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Summary: A Well-Rounded Movie
Review: I thought it was a good movie. It stands on its own, why spend time comparing to the 1955 original? It's got everyting: a good plot, lots of action, and DeNiro's facial gymnastics. Maybe it's not a classic, but it is entertaining and even a bit uplifting.
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Summary: Sean Penn's best work
Review: I thought it was a GREAT great movie. Funny, sad, thoughtful, but especially, I thought Sean Penn was dynamite! He manages to completely lose himself in the character and become this humble, bumbling, simple 'priest' while maintaining his reality as Robert DeNiro's fellow escapee.
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Summary: not as horrendous as some say
Review: Its only a little bit funny , but it is touching in an unusual way . Sean Penn is great and so is Bob , but the film slows down a bit in the middle and Bob growls his lines too much . But this is watchacle and entertaining if you have patience and a light heart .
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Summary: We need to praise it like we should
Review: Lighten up, film buffs; the 1989 version of We're No Angels may not be a great film, but that's because you're comparing it to other works made by these people, not to mention the 1955 version, which I haven't seen and so don't care about. It's an amazing array of talent: Robert DeNiro, _the_ best actor of his generation; Sean Penn, one of the best of his; Ray MacAnally, one of the finest Irish actors of any generation; Neil Jordan, who went on to direct the greatest Irish movie to date, "The Butcher Boy"; and David Mamet, who, well, writes great plays. Personally I don't rate Mamet as a film-maker, except that he can turn out workmanlike scripts when called upon to do so, and he does so here. The fact that this is probably the worst film that any of these people have ever been involved in is one of the things that makes it so entertaining. When I saw it first, as a teenage drama student, I was somewhat perplexed by DeNiro's wincing, shrugging performance as the useless con who's forced to masquerade as a priest, but looking at it now I laugh my ears off. His timing is actually very good, and while DeNiro has never been brilliant at comedy (Rupert Pupkin is the exception that proves the rule - Pupkin is so desperate to be funny that he's actually painful to watch) you can, if you watch this movie enough times, end up rooting for him. He's so obviously telling himself "Keep it light, Bob, this is meant to be a comedy" that he gets a sympathy laugh, from me at any rate. Sean Penn is actually very good, although I can't help wondering what this utter innocent could have done to have wound up in prison in the first place. His sermon improvised from a Colt advertising flyer is a beautiful piece of acting. Everybody likes to dump on Demi Moore because she got delusions of grandeur and started taking herself seriously, but here she has moments of real power and pathos, which work the more because it's based on a lightness that she hasn't really allowed herself for a long time since. I mean, yeah, it's a preposterous movie. But I still laugh aloud at it, if for the wrong reasons, and I'd rather watch it than probably anything by the Farrelly Brothers, if only because it's so...unguarded. The Farrellys always know what they're doing; here it's as though everybody made a bad decision, and that makes them endearingly vulnerable for ninety minutes. "Go with God", indeed.
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Summary: De Niro is hilarious
Review: Ok, so maybe if you're not a De Niro fan, you won't like this movie. I don't know. Since I *am* a fan of his, I'm kind of biased. The movie itself is fairly decent, but Robert De Niro's facial expressions are enough to rate it 5 stars. Hilarious! It's always fun to see him in a comedic role.
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Summary: Waste of time, talent, film, you name it!
Review: Save your money. Save your time. This movie makes Ishtar seem bearable. If you have not seen the original film of 'We're No Angels' - whose cast was better than this version's by the way, and the script far surpassed this dud, then find a copy of the original. It's got Humphrey Bogart and Peter Ustinov - two of the best reasons I know for watching a movie - along with the inimitably villainous Basil Rathbone and the bumbling likeable Leo G. Carroll (aka Mr. Waverly in 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'). Sean Penn left comedy behind with Ridgmont High and can't seem to find that magic again. Robert DeNiro is certainly capable of comedy but first he needs a truly funny script. Everyone has something they don't want on their resume, and I'd guess that for both actors it's this movie.
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Summary: Why all the negative reviews?
Review: This is not a bad movie. Is it the best movie of all time? well, no, but it's amusing in its own right. It is no worse than a thousand other movies that people hail as terrific! The premise is unusual and funny. The outcome is touching and uplifting. In between are some comedic moments. Not a terrible flick.
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Summary: the big movie now, is "The Passion of Christ"
Review: this is the big movie now; but this movie; maybe one needs to be Roman Catholic to totally get it and in that way; some might brace themselves for some sacrilege but it really is not so; it is a very spiritual movie; Penn and Deniro both put out top ranking performances; I watched it on USA network quite a few times before I knew the title of this movie and that some years prior, Humprhey Bogart made a movie with the same title but that the plots are not exactly a like. We see, some redemptions in this movie; Hoyt Axton writer of a song that had some swearing and that is the song "The Pusher" plays his role as Monsignor (or what ever precisely he was in the movie), absolutely devoutly, jovial (like an Irishman which he may well be) and perfectly; I believe, the order of Monks of which they are, are like Benedictines; the nostalgia of the movie is great, the humor, where Penn sees the sign reading some quotation from Galatians or similar; in saving their necks and getting a ride from an elderly lady, after they break out of prison. Well, is that saying a lot? Didn't follow it? Well; Sean Penn's role finds redemption in his role, iut is very inspirational; Hoyt Axton seems to find redemption in the role; the deaf girl daughter of Demi Moore, is certainly saved and redeemed; Demi as well; really, it seems that only Robt. Deniro's role, lacks the redemption and he seems to continue his scalawag ways; Comedy, how grand on a scale, when, through miraculous "God works in strange ways" events, Demi Moore's daughter loses her status of deaf mute and the first thing she can say, is "Convicts" she recognizes Penn and Deniro as being the escaped convicts, but Deniro turns it around to that she said "Converts" and saves themselves there. Deniro is worldly, Penn experiences a spiritual awakening; that ending could bring tears to the eyes of some, at least me; A+ plus plus is this movie for me.
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Summary: One of my favorite movies of all time
Review: To me any movie with Sean Penn, or Robert DeNiro is going to be a good movie, and the combination of both of them in one movie is a masterpeice. The movie was Funny, and exiting. I hope whoever reads this review, sees the movie and enjoys it just like I did
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Summary: Forgive us for this mess
Review: When Robert DeNiro is good, he's incredible. Sadly, DeNiro has made his share of clunkers too. This is one of them.
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