Random Hearts

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Summary: Harrison saved this movie
Review: Harrison Ford was,as usual, a believable actor with not the best role. Kristen Scott-Thomas came off as a typical cold-hearted politician. Their match up was poor casting. Overall I liked the movie and would recommend it. I felt empathy with Harrison's character, but not Kristens.

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Summary: THE BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR.....
Review: RANDOM HEARTS, proves to be the most well acted, directed, paced, involving picture of the year. This picture proves to be nothing but a milestone on Harrison Ford's and Kristen Scott Thomas's reputations. This is a story about betrayal, passion, and obsession. While investigating the truth behind his wife's affair with Kay Chandler's lawyer husband, Dutch forms a relationship between Chandler that is something more... something great... something all to rare. Harrison Ford is great as an obsessed truth seeker, and Kristen Scott Thomas is wonderful providing a character that straightens out Dutch, showing him truth... happiness... but most of all... love. The only thing that is wrong about this movie is the stupid and distracting subplot about a corrupt cop. RANDOM HEARTS.

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Summary: LOSER
Review: I'm not disppointed because Ford did this movie and I only'like him as an action charcter. No way. I'm disppointed simply because the movie has a bad screenplay, that left Ford and THomas totally without control of their lousy characters, with no life at all. Bad motion picture. Don't recommend it to anyone.

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Summary: Impressed by this movie
Review: I thought this would be another formula movie with Harrison Ford but I was surprised that this film didnt fall into any easy characterization. Director Sydney Pollack is plumbing some uncharted emotional depths and the result is a thoughtful and deliberate movie that while not completely succesful will leave you thinking about it after its over. Harrison Ford is very convincing in his role and while Scott-Thomas leaves something to be desired in the range of her acting abilities they actually make a believable pair.

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Summary: Surprising disappointment
Review: This appeared to have the makings of a great film. Harrison Ford, Kristen Scott Thomas, Sydney Pollack, mystery, etc. I certainly understood that this was not the typical Harrison action film. No booming special effects, no endless numbers of murders. However, what I didn't expect is that nothing really happens. Yes, it is a mature subject. How would any of us deal with not only the sudden death of a spouse but the discovery that said spouse died along with her lover, also married? Harrison delivers the shock, the rage and the desire to uncover the mystery quite well. At first. Unfortunately, the writing and the dialogue never take it any further. He just stays angry throughout the film. Kristin Scott Thomas plays a potentially strong female character who really just reacts to everything going on around her. Along with the main plot line, we see Harrison uncovering police corruption in his job with Internal Affairs. I have to say that this entire sequence contributed nothing to the overall film; it was confusing, and it fizzled.

It took me 2 days to watch all of this film. I was determined to see it through to the end and kept thinking that I just wasn't getting the deeper meaning and needed to give it a chance. I have to agree with the critics though. This film had great potential on all levels but failed to meet any of it. Rent it if you have to see, but I don't recommend investing in the purchase.

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Summary: Was this a contract-fulfillment movie?
Review: At least that's what I wondered during the first hour of watching this Harrison Ford movie. Nope, this is absolutely nothing like "Air Force One," "Patriot Games" and especially the Indiana Jones trilogy. Quick plot recap -- Ford is an Internal Affairs sergeant whose wife dies in a plane crash. He soon discovers his wife was on the plane with her lover -- the husband of a congresswoman. He obsessively tries to find out more about the affair, much to the distress (and eventually the attraction) of the congresswoman (Kristin Scott Thomas). I kept waiting for Ford to show some emotion other than looking confused, but then I realized he hit it right on the money. Put yourself in his (and her) shoes -- what would you want to know if your spouse died CHEATING on you? Would you want to know why or try to put it behind you? Charles S. Dutton is predictably good, but is absolutely wasted in his role as Ford's cop buddy as they investigate a crooked cop (Dennis Haysbert -- also wasted). Bottom line -- rent it first.

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Summary: Boring, boring, boring, boring, boring, boring, boring.
Review: Well this movie is really slow and has a weak storyline in some parts when they try to put some action like in a scene when Harrison Ford goes to a bowling alley and fights only one minute of action also there was a little shooting scene the whole movie is him and Kristin Scott kissing or worrying about each other or spending time on the wild at least if they made it interesting or funny nop they treat us like if we weren't there I think that this is one of Harrison Ford's worst pictures even worst than Sabrina! Don't waste precious time of your life go see something else or something. I hope What Lies Beneath that should be out later this summer to be something better now that director Robert Zemeckis who directed The Back To The Future Trilogy and Contact is directing this new movie with Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer for DreamWorks.

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Summary: Why is there not a '0 Star' rating?
Review: I like Harrison Ford, I like Kristin Scott Thomas, and I even like Charles Dutton (except for Alien 3, yakk). But this movie is a clunker. If it were a horse I would have shot it to put it out of my misery.

There is no real suspense and there is no one to root for. Ford's character is driven to find the truth, and the truth is simply the obvious. There is no twist, his wife was sleeping with Thomas' husband. We know it, their friends know it, their co-workers know it, but we have to follow this loser as he spends 2 hours of my life (that I will never get back, I might add) on figuring that out himself. Rent this film at most, do not buy.

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Summary: This Turkey Had Me Shouting for CLOSURE!
Review: Harrison Ford plays an internal affairs cop with a wife (Susanna Thompson) currently in external affair and soon to be submerged in a Southern Air flight among the fishes and her paramour (Peter Coyote). The adulterous couple were on their way to a weekend tryst to Miami when something went terribly wrong. And something else goes terribly wrong from this point on --- the script.

Harrison looks up Coyote's wife (Kristin Scott Thomas) who is a congresswoman running for re-election. Harrison just can't let this thing go for two more torturous hours. I still have nightmares involving the extent of boredom this movie injected into my psyche.

I would rather watch Night of the Lepus five consecutive times in an uncomfortable chair than to watch Random Hearts once again in my custom Lazyboy comfy recliner.

Random comments I made to Movie Queen* during this viewing included: (1) Is it over yet?, (2) Surely this is the end!, and (3) If Harrison touches another phone answering machine I'm outta here!

*my better half

gz 4/25/00

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Summary: Random Nothing
Review: This movie has an extremely weak story line. Though Harrison Ford finds out that his wife was having an affair with Kristin Scott Thomas' husband he keeps looking for something. Scenes in this movie come out of no where. This movie is incredibly boring and is not worth watching at all. When I finished this movie I thought I had been sitting there for 4 hrs. The only good thing about this movie is that it ends. Using Leonard Maltin's scale I would give this movie BOMB meaning this is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I would not give this movie any stars except I can't do that with the field. So I have to type BOMB.