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Release Date: 30 March, 2004 Retail Price: $19.97 OUR Price: $17.99 You SAVE: $1.98! Cast: |
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This Was Just Terrible....
I don't even know what to say. How this got such great reviews is beyond me. And it's not even just that it's so pale in comparison to the Matt Damon/ Jude Law film. This movie is terrible in and of itself.
First of all there's the cinematography that looks like it belongs on tv, scratch that, on tv in the 80s.
Then Ennio Morricone's score that sounds like a B horror movie. (And I'd like to state here that Morricone always disappoints I don't understand how he managed to write the haunting score to the Mission, which is surely one of the best in movie history, as every other soundtrack I've heard by him is just [...]) It's better to have no music and than bad music and this movie should have opted for plan B.
I feel that cinematography and music are among most important aspects of movie, not because they make a movie good, but because they can soooooo easily destroy a movie that would be good otherwise. If these two things are screwed up the only thing that can save the movie is the best script and actors money can buy. This movie has neither. I've never seen such over acting outside of a melodrama and as for the script, sometimes I thought it was going for a comedy and missed. To be honest I can't even imagine Patrica's original novel could have been any good in the first place as the plot is so silly.
At the start I said I don't know what to say and I've said a lot but really I think I could say it best by pointing out the fact the Mystery Science Theater 3000 has often featured better movies than this failure.
review of Ripley's Game
DVD arrived intact.Enjoyed the film as it is well casted. John Malcovich is a favorite actor as his humor is dry as well as laconic.His Ripley character is a control freak whose emotions are motion-less,where his acting counterpoint is a man who is very emotional, going thru levels of severe turmoil and stress.
The contrasts play well off each other.Setting/locale(Italy)is beautiful,and story elements are very entertaining.It is a B+ for me.
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