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Summary: empty, maybe?
Review: It seems a good story line, and yet it wasn't fully developed as a good movie at all. Yes, it makes sense for Wesley's charactor to be attracted to subtle and beautiful Kinski and leave his aggressive though not bad looking wife for good. But, is this the only reason, which was not explained well in the story. A empty story, maybe, but I guess the script is not that good after all. Robert Downey Jr. as a friend of Wesley's charactor and a guy dying of aids looks never so beautiful in his acting, whether on stage under the studio's lighting or on his death bed, which is among his best performances of his career, not to mention the best performance in this movie. It has some beautiful shots and good music though, if not for anything else.
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Summary: Lame
Review: It started out looking like it would be interesing although the trailer left me wondering - another 'man leaves family for a something different' movie? There was the non-depth of the characters that never sorted itself out. Why did this take so little thought or so very little emotion, I wondered. Then the acting. Karen - was this a really passive come on or just an undefined character? In the end you have her casting fond looks at her once-husband (played as well as the non-character chould be played) as she had earlier cast looks at Max and you wonder if it's about to happen all over again. And why did Max just suddenly wake up one day and find his energetic, explosive wife with personality so uncomparable to the limp Karen who has silent orgasms? The ending is no surprise at all even though they really give it a very obvious try to be clever. Lame. I give it 2 stars rather than one for for the orange story's presentation by Charlie.
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Summary: Great Movie!
Review: Nastassja Kinski is on her best, the story is fascinating and malicious! A must see!!!!!!!
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Summary: Interesting film.
Review: Not really good, not bad. Interesting. Downey's performance was excellent and heartbreaking. He amazes me with his versatility. He can be totally silly, like in Friends and Lovers, or utterly brilliant, like in Restoration, which is a masterpiece, and everything in between. The man is a superb actor. He was definately the shining star in this one, although his part was small.
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Summary: TO BREATHE OR NOT TO BREATHE
Review: ONE NIGHT STAND is a thick movie. You know, one of these movies during which you'd better stay awake if you want to appreciate all the subtle ideas the director has put in his work. Most of the time these movies are boring and end up their career in little cinematheques in front of two or three Woody Allen clones.Fortunately the cinema of Mike Figgis is light and always interesting especially if you like a jazzy atmosphere. Nevertheless, each word and each image of ONE NIGHT STAND can be heard or viewed at different levels. It's allright for me since, stop me if I'm wrong, nobody has ever said that motion pictures must only present colourful explosions and bloody murders to have the right to exist. At the beginning of ONE NIGHT STAND, we follow a Wesley MAX Snipes who tries unsuccessfully to leave New-York. The Big Apple will not let him get back to L.A. before he has tasted the wind of liberty portrayed by a Nastassja Kinski more gorgeous than ever. I used the word " wind " in purpose because from this moment on, it seems that director Mike Figgis has had a particular pleasure to enumerate all the variations that olfaction has, cinematographically speaking, brought to his mind. Sneezing actors, numerous allusions to the polluted atmosphere of Los Angeles, Nastassja's perfume following without pity the poor Wesley in his wife's arms, etc. etc. To breathe freely is the ultimate goal that the characters of ONE NIGHT STAND want to achieve. Robert Downey's agony adds up a tragic variation on this theme. I can understand that this movie's intention was to present to us a character - Max - whose encounters with his dying friend and with a lovely intellectual lady will awaken a longing for liberty (splendid shot of the Statue...) but I can't help myself to think that ONE NIGHT STAND is no more than a vain exercise of style. A DVD to rent for its musical score. In fact, buy the CD and forget the DVD.
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Summary: Figgis & Relationships
Review: pretty solid movie exploring the dynamics of a commited relationships
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Summary: What a swinging movie!
Review: Shameless guilt is another word to put it in the movie One Night Stand. Snipes, Kinski, MacLachlan & Wen are just the typical cosmopolitan city dwellers engaging with the hustle and bustle of everyday life. The movie proves something good though that the consequences of consensual sex and infidelity does lead to better understandings between relationships. The movie challenges the issues of infidelity and the wake of AIDS in our city life. I guess the viewers should draw their own judgments about the issues here. And Ming Wen's orgasmic scene, ouuuuch! Production of the DVD is great for the price. One thing that is so different from the other DVDs I own is the isolated soundtrack which is one of a kind. I play it for my listening pleasures. All in all, I put this movie on my "I like It" category which is equivalent to 4 stars.
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Summary: I was so moved by this movie that I had to watch it again.
Review: The combination of actors used in this movie are brilliant ! Wesley got to me. I think he is so sexy. The movie plot flowed like a wild river. It keeps you wanting more; like what's coming up next. I thought that Robert was so cool; his abillity to play many kinds of roles within one movie is astonishing.
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Summary: Snipes Deserves a Better Movie
Review: The ever-cocky, sometimes-impressive Wesley Snipes--who probably will be best remembered for snatching second-rate shoot-em-up scripts from the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger--this time tackles something that relies less on guns and knives (though, alas, there is a knifepoint mugging scene). Too bad he picked a script that meanders between "9 1/2 Weeks" and any evening soap, never getting much deeper than an episode of "Red Shoe Diaries." Snipes is the typical Hollywood everyman--young, buff, wealthy, professional and with a picture-perfect family, right down to a boy, a girl, and a dog. He has the ubiquitous dream job, advertising bigshot (where, of course, he never does any real work), and tons of free time to devote to, among other things, an affair with emotionally-fragile--get this--rocket scientist Nastassja Kinski, who specializes in roles requiring a smoldering "European" look and little or no clothing. Thrown into the fray is a dying friend, played by the overrated but bafflingly lucky Robert Downey, Jr., and a princess of a wife, played by "ER"'s resident whiner, Ming-Na. The story? Well, there isn't much of one. Trapped temporarily in New York City, Snipes has a brief affair with Kinski, then returns to LA supposedly haunted by what happened. Stuff--some of it played with a somber tone that is supposed to pass for drama--happens in creaky episodic form, with Snipes' narration trying to bridge the wide gaps in time and plot, and the movie concludes with an ending that is at least as fantastic as anything in Snipes' action pictures. Director Figgis also seems almost grimly determined to avoid acknowledging the interracial dynamics of the relationships; as someone who is bi-racial, I have mixed feelings. For instance, I want to applaud its rather matter-of-fact sensibility that an African-American man can be with any woman he wants--but at the same time, I'm left deploring the old stereotype the film supports--that an African-American man can be with any woman he wants. I guess we've come a long way from Sidney Poitier stirring things up at dinner but not too far from Superfly rolling up in a flashy car. At least the movie looks good, though at times everyone's ages show a bit.
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Summary: Good acting but story gets way too unbelievable by the end
Review: The first half is a fascinating tale of self realization and the prospect of getting lost within one's own life. But then it falls into a tailspin with one too many coincidences. The acting is superb. One other thing to note, the movie deals exceptionally well with interracial relationships -- mainly it draws little to no attention to them and instead portrays cross-racial romances as commonplace. This should be commended because most other movies would stuff it down your throat.
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