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Summary: SOMETHING EVERYONE SHOULD VIEW.WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.
Review: The way Mike Figgis makes a film is breath-taking.Figgis,the most underrated director,shows us something you do not see in your normal mainstream picture.Genius.This film is a work of art.Some people might not see that now.But,in a few decades, this will be up there with the Citizen Kanes,the Children of Paradises,the Personas,the On the Waterfronts,and many other pieces of cinematic art.After watching this,I advise you to watch every single film made by Mike Figgis,to see the works of the most underrated cinematic genius in film today.
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Summary: If only it had been.
Review: There's no movie here, just images and sounds... a faint idea, but a bad one, an idea that had best been tossed into the dustbin shortly after Joe Eszterhas conceived it.We should have been so lucky. Coming off the enormous success of Leaving Las Vegas, Mike Figgis goes toe-to-toe with M. Eszterhas, originator of One Night Stand, and loses. After God knows how many rewrites and studio-made casting decisions we're left with something that makes little sense, and likely has little resemblance to the original.. As is Figgis' nature, the film tries hard to be stylish. It is LA, a land where Mandingo can have not only intelligence and success, but a beautiful Asian wife, kids, dog, AND a gay best friend dying of Aids. For most of us, that would be a plateful, but it's mundane and boring to Max Carlyle (Wesley Snipes), who has to go off with Karen (Nastassia Kinski) instead. Why anyone would leave Ming Na-Wen for Nastassia Kinski it not even for us to ponder. Hanging precariously already, the film now loses all sense of itself, of any connection with reality, even L.A. reality. Wonderful actors like Glenn Plummer, Amanda Donahoe, Thomas Haden Church, and John Ratzenberger are needlessly underused. Figgis' own sense of personal failure in the finished product, is exacerbated as he over-cooks his own score. There is no hint of the subtle support his wonderful musical touch brought us in Leaving Las Vegas. I think back to the movie 'The Big Picture". Kevin Bacon pitches an original idea to studio exec J. T. Walsh. Throughout the pitch, Walsh's character attempts to exploit and pervert every facet of Bacon's original idea by suggesting he incorporate overt, explicit, and diverse sexual content. Maybe Michael DeLuca saw that movie, maybe Michael DeLuca is that movie. Maybe One Night Stand is not a movie...not one worth seeing.
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Summary: Waste of Time & Money!!!!!!1
Review: This is one of the worse films ever done..... What was Wesley thinking playing in this movie??? It truly doesn't give a good representation to multiracial relationships.
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Summary: Daring, original drama
Review: This movie basically defies every worn-out Hollywood cliche of the last 15 years: the submissive Asian woman, the sex-hungry black man, the contrite AIDS victim, the shiny happy affluent suburban family. Kinski is especially brilliant, and it is hard to take one's eyes off of her. This movie is a resounding "up yours" to every tired Ronald Reagan-era "rah rah family values" flick, the antithesis of "Fatal Attraction" because here a chance sexual encounter leads not to destruction but transformation and renewal. Albeit the ending is a bit abrupt and convenient, but the overall atmosphere of the movie pulls it through. Really a wonderful breath of fresh air...
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Summary: intense drama
Review: Wesley Snipes is the main character here. He actually narrates at certain times in the movie, one of which is right at the beginning which kind of threw me off because I never expected that. I would say the beginning and end are the best parts. It's the middle where the plot kind of gets lost. Robert Downey Jr. plays Wesley's best friend, who is also gay and dying of aids. He's fantastic, as usual. The parts where he's really dying and sick are so full of emotion. You really feel such pity at the tragedy of it all. Robert's character is actually the central character that brings the whole cast together, figuratively and literally, at the climax of the movie. Wesley's "One Night Stand" , which really isn't the right word for the encounter since it's portrayed as obviously something much deeper than that, catches up with him at the hospital where Robert's character is being cared for. Robert forces his friend to deal with the feelings he still has for this woman, and the ending is supposed to be a big shock, I guess, but I kind of saw it coming, as you will probably too.
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Summary: spectacular drama
Review: Wesley Snipes(superb) and Nastassja Kinski(superb and sexy and you get to see her boobies in this one, hooray) have a one night stand, beacuse its the movies title after Kinski and Snipes get mugged and Snipes also visits his dying gay friend played nicely by Robert Downey Jr. Snipes goes home with his with Ming Na Win(you see her boobies too, hoorah). one year later he comes back because Downey's on the death bed and his brother, Kyle Maclachlan is there as well, Maclachlan introduces Snipes to his wife, Kinski(bum, bum, bummmmm) and then things start to heat up. Downey finds out then dies and then theres that scene where Kinski and Snipes are getting their groove on up against the wall and then they stop and turn and see Maclachlan and Win on the couch getting their groove on as well. then they switch partners and its a satisfying end.
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Summary: Crummy
Review: When a man with a grumpy wife leaves her for another woman, things get trendy and people get stupid. There was so much stupid eminating from this film that it displaced the oxygen in the room and I started to gag. Or maybe it was just my lunch coming back up. Either way, I'm sure the film was the cause. In short: if you want entertainment, go buy another film.
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Summary: Really Shallow
Review: When it comes to this movie, my talent for cinimatic analysis goes right out the window. Yeah, it has a quiet intensity that I enjoyed. It also has some good acting, although at times it seemed a little contrived. The script was good, but also at times it seemed like it had written it's self into a corner. Nastassja Kinski is as beautiful as ever and deserves far more camera time than she get's. Those are all good, but.....the absolute greatest, quintessential, worhwhile reason for owning this movie and watching this movie over and over again is that Ming Na appears nearly naked and is absolutely gorgeous.
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