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Summary: Worst $5.00 I have ever spent
Review: Movie jumps from scene to scene. Don't know whether you are watching the past, present. Boring. Don't waste your money renting this one.
Rating: 
Summary: talent wasted
Review: seeing spike lee's name associated with this film gave me reservation, but with so many talented actors i had to give it a try. it is supposed to be about a man's last night of freedom before serving a seven year prison sentence for dealing drugs. one of the biggest problems is that you never really feel any sympathy for him. even his best friend says "he made money off the sufferings of other people. he's getting what he deserves." as a matter of fact you never feel anything for him at all. the feelings that he must be going through, counting down the hours until he goes to prison for seven years, are completely ignored. more time is spent on his two friends who are nothing but stereotypes, not real characters. the rich good looking playboy whose life is miserably empty and the dumpy, geeky intellectual who lusts after an underage student of his. one scene everyone mentions is where edward norton's character insults every race and /or religion he can think of. but his insults are pathetically weak. "black people playing basketball and running 6 or 7 steps without dribbling the ball, orientals selling stacks of over-priced fruit....." wow, controversial stuff there. this should have been a really good movie, but spike lee directed it. the usual scenes with bad music blaring way too loud, characters that are never developed, and speeches that go on and on but say....nothing.
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Summary: Absolutly Incredable! A masterpiece!
Review: While watching "25th Hour" I was treated to one of the most incredable and emotional monolouges that I have yet to see. It is done by Edward Nortons character of Monty, and in it he says something bad about probally every religion, race,and type of person that there is to make fun of. It was so powerfully moving, and it uses the f word a strong number of times. But the cursing doesn't matter because during the segment you can feel for the character of Monty, because I'm sure that everybody has had a comment to at least one of the people that Monty says something about. The movie stars Edward Norton, Barry Pepper, Brian Cox, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Edward Norton plays Monty Brogon, who is a drug dealer that decided that he was going to be legit, but he was too late, as the cops discovered drugs in the padding of his couch. He decides to spend his last night of freedom with his two best friends Jacob and Frank, as well as his girlfriend Naturelle Riviera. Monty is not the only one going through problems. Jacob is a teacher who have a crush on one of his students Mary D' Annunzio, who enjoys flirting with him. Frank is an investing banker, who can't believe that Monty and Naturelle allowed the police to find the drugs. Monty starts off his evening by having dinner with his father, played by Brian Cox. He then goes to a nightclub with his friends, and he also meets his drug lord boss Uncle Nikolai. As the night grows old, Monty begins to wonder who is the one who turned him in to the cops, and he begins to get to the fact that he cannot rust anybody, not his friends, not his girlfriend, nobody that he knows, because any of them could be a traitor. At the end of "25th Hour" you do find out who is the person that turned Monty in, and I was surprised. I am trying not to reveal anything that could ruin the movie, but the person who turned him in is the last person that I suspected. But as the night wore on and it was almost time for his to go to jail, I was interested. This movie was a seris of conversations between people. There was ten minute long conversations, five minute long conversations. But its through these conversations that you could determine who may have or may have not turned Monty in. I saw "25th Hour" about a year ago, and I loved it so much, that I remembered it to include it on my Top 10 List of 2003. See "25th Hour" and just listen to what the character's say. It's a brilliant film that I recommend. Also see this movie for the preformances. I love Edward Norton as an actor, and thought his preformance in "Death to Smoochy," showed that he could do comedy as well as hard drama like this. Phillip Seymour Hoffman is great in this as he is in everything. "Punch Drunk Love," "Along Came Polly," "Almost Famous," and many other titles stand under his name. He is a brilliant actor that should get more respect, especially in this movie. Edward Norton should have won Best Actor during the Oscars last year for this. The is a classic film. A+! ENJOY! Rated R for strong language and some violence.
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Summary: The 25th Hour is worth your time
Review: The 25th Hour, directed by Spike Lee is kind of one of those movies that is liked by some but not all. It is about Edward Norton and his last 25 hours until he goes to prison. He spends the day with his friends, girlfriend and visits many New York spots. I would say this movie has alot of truths to it and as in many of Spike Lee's movies it has lasting power. If you want to see a great drama and one of Edward Norton's finest movies, definetly give 25th Hour a shot. I thought the ending was nice and it leaves on a sad/good father-son moment while not being cheesy or fake.
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Summary: 911+a man going to jail=????
Review: This is very mixed up film. Spike Lee tries to draw parallels between the destruction of the main characters life with the devastation of 911. This does not work well at all. It's good for a film to capture a certain time and space, but the post 911 setting it is too overpowering in this film. Spike Lee uses Edward Norton as a vehicle to push his usual politics and vent his many frustrations. The most obvious example of this is the monologue in front of the mirror. His outburst seemed totally unprovoked and out of character. I found it hard to care about Norton's character, and at times I even forgot about him. The ending, whether it was a flash-forward or a dream, was laughable. When I think back on the film, all I remember is Spike Lee complaining and screaming, and he wasn't even in the film.
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Summary: Don't waste your time!
Review: It was so bad I don't know where to start. In the first 5 minutes, I left the room and was tempted to turn it off right then, since you hear what sounds like the crying of a dog in pain getting beaten to death before you even SEE ANYTHING on the screen. Gee, Spike, that's a great STATEMENT you're making, there. A dying, bloody dog lying in the street is the first thing we see...NICE. Real nice. Not something that grabs a normal person in for a good time. I managed to make it through about 40 minutes or so and fell asleep when there appeared to be no real plot in sight.In that time, there was one halfway decent scene where Norton's character stares at himself in a mirror ranting on about everything he hates about life in general, which hits home with probably everyone to at least some degree. Apparently, to Spike Lee, the more his character repeats the phrase, "F**K you," the more depth and meaning one will find in his movies. Hoping to find SOME meaning in this "genius" of a movie, I turned it back on a day later to finish it and realized it really doesn't get any better. The title, the 25th Hour, would lead you to believe there's a lot this guy needs to do in the last full free day of his life for the next 7 years, but there is never any real action except for two bloody fight scenes. One when we find out, finally, who ratted Monty's drug-dealing out, which really isn't a big deal to anyone anyway, it seems. I certainly wasn't interested enough in any of the characters to be concerned. And the other one was towards the end in the last few hours where he begs his friend to beat him up and "make me ugly" before going to jail with his pretty white-boy face. This is so dumb, for a minute I couldn't believe I dropped $2.99 to rent this piece of crap. One can predict that the friend refuses at first, but finally gives in and starts slugging, only after Monty makes him mad enough with accusations and by hitting the other friend for no reason. Meanwhile, his dog from the beginning of the movie that Monty ended up saving, is going nuts watching his master getting the snot beat out of him. At that point, I turned it off and still do not know how it ends and couldn't care less. The characters, all of them, are so shallow, that the movie would've had a little more appeal if I felt like I cared about or liked any of them. The only thing I liked about Norton's character was that he saved the dog's life in the beginning of the movie and seems to actually care about it. But the friends, especially Hoffman's character, is a little too concerned with his own life and being attracted to a high-schooler in his class (WHO CARES!) that he can't even think of two thoughtful words to say to Monty in a toast when the two are sharing a private moment together--their last for the next 7 years. I guess the effect of 9/11 was supposed to draw you in and bring meaning to all of this and what the character was looking at as his next 7 years, but Spike Lee's arrogance in doing that for us is not only ineffective, it's insulting. This movie lacks everything one would consider entertainment. It lacks a good, thought-provoking story, a plot, colorful characters, drama, action or concern of any kind on the part of the viewer. Spike, maybe you're trying too hard to make a statement with everything you do--is it necessary?
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Summary: Boring and unrealistic.
Review: This film, directed by legendary racist and "Whitey-hater" Spike Lee, and starring Edward Norton, is about a guy. Now, this isn't some regular guy, this is a guy with a pretty bad-@ss goatee. This automatically makes him awesome. Anyway...Edward Norton's character is being sent to prison for seven years. He has one last day to enjoy his freedom. Now, in real life the police would automatically take the man into custody and arrest him, but in Spike Lee's fantasy land, Norton's character gets one last day to do whatever he wants, whether that be to leave the country or to go on a murderous rampage. Norton's character, however, decides just to meet with his friends for a pretty lame party. Really, the ONLY good things in this movie are the ending and Norton's scene where he rants to himself while looking in the mirror. I give The 25th Hour two stars.
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Summary: Spectacular post-9/11 saga
Review: Spike Lee's latest, 25th Hour is a 5-star winner. Focusing on drug dealer Monty's last day of freedom before going to prison, the film carefully weaves in background stories from his past and that of his girlfriend and two best guy friends from childhood. It's a post-9/11 saga of New York, full of sadness and helplessness - and rage. There's a beautifully acted bathroom scene, a soliloquy in which Monty pours out his heart to his own image in the mirror - that alone might garner as Oscar nomination. The mark of a good movie, for me, is one in which every character undergoes some significant, if small, change - and 25th Hour scores A+
Terrific in every way.
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Summary: What would you do in your last night before going to jail?
Review: "25th hour" is about the last day of Monty, a low-key drug-dealer, before he goes to jail to a seven-year punishment. In this last day, he wants to make amendments with his father, go out one last time with his two best friends (one the complete opposite of the other) and try to discover if the love of his life is not the person responsible for his ordeal. But, much more than that, "25th hour" is a sensible movie about feelings of loss and impotence. Action is practically non-existent, and it should be that way. What makes it great is the dialogue between the interesting and different characters, always dense, tense and moody. On top of that, Spike Lee created an "open" movie, instead of his previous and most famous movies dealing with close subjects, which, for me, was a great development. And he took his time to make the movie. All characters have lots of time on screen, creating very well-developed relationship situations. Grade 8.8/10
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Summary: valentine to NYC
Review: A gem. Edward Norton is amazing and the story is great.
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