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Summary: Above all, I like the music!
Review: Above all, i liked the music. The story was a little weired, but okay. It is just one of Hollywood's love-story movies. Kinski was so beautiful. I wanna looking for her another movies. The music made movie fantastic.
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Summary: empty, maybe?
Review: Director Mike Figgis followed up his triumphant "Leaving Las Vegas" with this disappointing film.Wesley Snipes takes a rare (understandbly so) turn as a dramatic actor. Kinski attempts to resurrect her career (and fails). Only Ming Na Wen escapes unscathed from this vacuous "drama". Unfortunately, she is now voicing computer generated characters in "Final Fantasy - Flop".
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Summary: Disappointing follow up to "Leaving Las Vegas"
Review: Director Mike Figgis followed up his triumphant "Leaving Las Vegas" with this disappointing film. Wesley Snipes takes a rare (understandbly so) turn as a dramatic actor. Kinski attempts to resurrect her career (and fails). Only Ming Na Wen escapes unscathed from this vacuous "drama". Unfortunately, she is now voicing computer generated characters in "Final Fantasy - Flop".
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Summary: A great cast can't save this movie.
Review: Empty and pointless story. Poor screenplay. And worst of all, characters that the audience just doesn't care about. The final plot twists lack purpose and leave the viewer thinking: "So what? " This movie strives to be insightful, full of suprises, and make the audience think... Unfortunately the story is shallow and fails miserably.
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Summary: Much better than I'd expected...
Review: First of all, Robert Downey, Jr. is superb in this film, as he always is. Wesley Snipes is impressive as a man more sensitive than his previous film appearances will lead you to expect. The pace of this film is a bit leisurely, but it's worth your patience. I don't want to give the ending(s) away, although many viewers will be quicker on the draw than I was ;) A good movie: to be enjoyed rather than discussed.
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Summary: This is one of Wesleys Best Movies I think
Review: I am a Wesley Snipes fan...I have seen all of his movies. I think this one was great. I saw it as a way to show that love at first site , and fate, can come in the most weirdest forms, and at the strangest times, and that there is such a thing as "soul mates". I think this is one of Mr. Snipes best performances, and the ending was just like, "WOW" , I kind of had a feeling it was going to end differently than it did, but it didn't. Anyone who likes a movie that is a little romance, comedy, serious, and sexy, or anyone (like me who thinks Wesley Snipes is the best) will love this movie.. Many a girl will wish she was the "ONE NIGHT STAND" with him... But I feel this is a must see....
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Summary: Find your Bliss
Review: I am suprised by many of the comments contributed here. Either others have missed something or I've read to much in to the movie. The main character (Max) played by Snipes is a man who apparently has everything. He goes back to New York and visits his best friend Charlie(brilliantly played by Robert Downey) who has contracted AIDs and when he can't catch his flight home, Max stumbles into an intimate incounter with Karen played by Kinski. When he returns home he finds that there is something missing in his apprently perfect life. This is one of those rare movies where the sex scenes aren't gratuitous. The contrast between the sex scene between Max and Mimi and the love scene between Max and Karen are dramatic and telling. In the former Mimi is giving Max instructions while they are having sex. The sex is loud and energetic but lacks give and take, intimatcy and tenderness. There is no real emotional connection between the two. In contrast, in Karen's scene Max and Karen connect emotionally. and that is what is missing in Max's life in LA. There is no emotional connection for Max with his wife, with his friends or with his work. So his life is empty. The scenes with Charlie are central to the story. This is where the theme of the movie is revealed and that is what pulls story together. The acting was good across the board. Robert Downeys performace makes the movie worth seeing by itself. He avoids all pathos and portrays Charlie as a sympathtic character, not a pathetic character. Yes there are a couple of plot contrivances that stretch suspended disbelieve to the snapping point but the movie has enough strenghs carry the viewer through.
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Summary: Seedy Love Life Makes Good Story
Review: I liked the whole story (partly because I'm nuts over Ming Na Wen). The tone is seedy kinda like the Game with Michael Douglas. You get this "awkward, deep, uncomfortable, yet curious" feeling from this flick. It is a great story, but falls short to movies like Gattaca and Before Sunrise in where the story becomes truly memorable. A definite see!
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Summary: the best role of wesley snipes' career...
Review: i think wesley is a much better actor when he's playing sensitive ,intelligent males. not just guys who live by their guns. the supporting cast is also very good. notably robert downey, jr. as a dying gay man. natsssia kinski looks lovely as always. there was some controversy when this film was released about wesley's wife being an asian woman instead of white woman. he said they didn't want to offend the black females who would be watching this movie.and cheating on an asian woman with a white woman would make black women less offended? go figure. still a good film. i pity the reviewer who made the "mandingo" remark a few reviews back. only an insecure, jealous white male would say something like that. people should be free to love who they want.
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Summary: Beautiful, quietly subversive, Existentialist Masterpiece
Review: In order to truly appreciate this film, you really need to compare it to another film on the same subject of random one-time infidelity that came out ten years earlier: 1987's "Fatal Attraction." That film provided us with graphic voyeuristic pleasure alongside moralistic self-satisfaction, titillating us with a sensationalistic view of adulterous casual sex which leads to divine/karmic retribution as the spurned One-Time Other Woman morphs into a vengeful psycho. The message of "Fatal Attraction" was crystal clear and clicked with Reaganite America: stick to the safe and narrow, or terrible things will happen to you! In contrast, 1997's "One Night Stand" implies the opposite: let things flow and DIVERGE from the safe, familiar everyday even just once...and incredible personal and interpersonal transformation blossoms. For many, it's a disturbing subtext: take a chance, walk on the (somewhat) "wild" side, and your bliss just might follow! It's easy to see why this film got such mixed reviews here in the States, and such good reviews in Europe: it bravely refuses to follow the standard American cliches about sexuality, marriage, materialism, "success," AIDS, death and life itself. And there's a brilliant unspoken reversal of popular racial stereotypes and typical Hollywood stock roles: a Chinese-American woman (Ming-Na) is loud, aggressive, and sexually voracious while her African-American husband (Snipes) is quiet, introspective, intellectual, and sexually subdued in comparison. A beautiful blonde woman (Kinski) is actually a super-intelligent astrophysicist. A straight black man and a flamboyantly gay man (Downey Jr.) are longtime best friends. The gay man is dying of AIDS but refuses to engage in regrets or self-pity. And the sex scene between the two initial adulterers, Snipes and Kinski, is actually very restrained, non-sensationalistic, and emotionally substantiative---not the frantic animal lust portrayed in "Fatal Attraction" but two fragile human beings taking blessed refuge in each other during a passing fortuitous moment. And that's what this film is really all about: life as a series of passing moments, which must each in its own turn be honored and lived as fully as possible. The cinematography and score are seamlessly stunning, so the DVD format should serve well. Granted, there are a few contrived plot turns, the dialogue does sound a bit written in two or three places, and it does put a LOT of things on your plate. Bittersweet and poignant and a feast for both eyes and ears and even the gray matter between the ears. This is not some simple-minded, focus-group-pandering, saccharine feel-good Hollywood schmaltzfest but a mature, subtle, and passionately challenging film that Mike Figgis probably would never have had the chance to make were it not for the success of his "Leaving Las Vegas" which preceded this movie. Too bad for Hollywood...
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