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Release Date: 06 January, 2004 Retail Price: $14.95 OUR Price: $13.46 You SAVE: $1.49! Cast: Complete Cast (11 total) |
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OUT OF (PLOT) TIME!!!
I really wanted to like this movie---I even cut out of work early to see this movie, and well (sigh), here goes...
Matthias Whitlock {Denzel Washington--Training Day, John Q.} is the chief of police in small-town, who happens to be married and having an affair with his high-school sweetheart Anne Marei Harrison {Sanaa Lathan--Love & Basketball, Brown Sugar}, who is struggling with her own fidelity issues with an abusive husband, Chris Harrison {Dean Cain--host of Ripley's Believe It Or Not}, an former quarterback turned security guard who is bitter and strapped for cash.
One day, Anne Marei takes Matthias to the doctor where she learns she is terminally ill with cancer. Treatments are expensive and not guaranteed to extend her life. Whitlock decides to take measures into his own hands, and steal some drug money from a successful bust to help his lover.
On the night he is to deliver the money, Anne Marei's house has been burned to the ground, killing her and her husband!! Investigators suspect foul play and are looking for answers. To make matters worse, the lead detective is Whitlock's wife {Eva Mendes--Training Day}.
Now Whitlock, must solve this mystery and keep the rest of the force hot off his trail, before they discover the truth.
The movie draws you in without a problem, especially as Whitlock discovers some truths of his own. But it's the last 20 or so minutes of dialogue/plot that it all went downhill.
Overall, not too bad.
Definitely one of my favorite movies.
Personally, I think this film is underrated. I think we go to the movies for three main reasons: to enjoy an adventure that probably is unbelievable (of all types), to laugh, or to relate to something we experience. Out of Time is the first one, and it takes us on a wonderful adventure that is arguably the best of its kind.
Fictional Banyan Key, Florida's chief of police Mathias Whitlock (Denzel Washington) is secretly having an affair with his high school sweetheart Ann-Marie Harrison (Sanaa Lathan) behind her abusive husband Chris's back (Dean Cain) since his own marriage with Alex Whitlock (Eva Mendes) is near divorce. But when he finds out that his beloved Ann has cancer and the operation is too expensive, he decides to take action by giving her drug evidence money that is stored in his office. Why not? The money has to be in his custody for a certain period of time, so what's the problem?
After Mathias gives her the money, she doesn't show up at his house like he told her too. The next morning, her house is on fire, and the police have declared it double homicide. And guess who's got her first case? That's right. His ex-wife, a newly promoted detective. Now Whitlock must not only protect himself and avoid detection, he must find out the true criminals of the case. What begins is a fantastic display of Whitlock working and sweating to erase all the evidence, half a step ahead of the police, and two steps behind the real puppetmasters.
If you don't like pure suspense thrillers, or maybe this movie doesn't sound appealing to you, then I thought I'd mention the best supporting character (perhaps the best character in the film), Whitlock's best buddy, a medical examiner named Chae (John Billingsley). Simply put, Chae is hilarious, as a slobby, greedy, sarcastic friend, who tones down the tension of the movie with his laugh-out-loud jokes. If not for any other reason, rent this movie for the simple humor of Billingsley in his role as Chae.
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