I'll be looking for more from this young woman. We see thugs break into an old woman's apartment, no idea why. Do yourself a favor, go to your library and check out the book, you won't waste your money on the rental and get a much better story. Douglas is always fine in these sort of roles. Douglas has made roles like this his own, and redeems them by skirting just barely this side of overacting--which is about where a character in this plot should be positioned. We know it will come into better use later, and it does as she shoves it through the heart of the bad guy. Meanwhile his wife is trapped in their flat and police woman Cassidy is piecing together a puzzle that begins with the discovery of two related murders.
I was a little bothered by Michael Douglas having a wife the age of Famke. This was mindless entertainment for those nights when there is absolutely nothing else to do. I guess I'd have to bought the soundtrack. A crook Patrick Irishman Sean Bean just out of 10 years in prison needs to find the valuable red jewel that got him there in the first place. Douglas I thought also offered up a good performance, as did Sean Bean as Patrick, the head kidnapper. Avoid it at all cost. Halfway, I decided to go for 6,5 or 6 out of 10.
She just seemed altogether too calm. He goes with choice B here. The fact that it had a high 6. You get a real good feel for bank robbers who are almost without conscience, who love the thrill of the 'hit'. And why was that poor young woman being kept in a filthy hospital room? Put that into a straight story and it wouldn't be too exciting.
. Not exactly correct, as I didn't find the story thrilling much at all. Some might wonder actually, I might wonder why the villain can wait 10 years and then give Douglas only eight hours to work with his patient. Douglas and Bean and the rest of the cast do try to rise above the material but there's not much material to rise above in the first place I have rarely seen a more contrived movie. This movie provides in the thrills department. For the second half of the movie, there are four parallel plots, involving Douglas working over the patient, his wife struggling to defend herself with her leg in a cast, his daughter trying to outsmart the kidnappers and a woman detective stumbling over the crime during a related investigation.
In the movie, Michael Douglas plays an affluent, happily married psychologist who has to contend as Michael Douglas does in every movie , with a seriously disturbed woman. However, there is ultimately no good story here, nothing to take away or to compare to our experiences. I think the film is too underrated. When this guys get out, somehow they know where she is, they know she knows the six-digit number that will lead them back to the diamond that nobody knew where it was. And as for the cop, played by Jennifer Esposito, she is so irrelevant to the plot that she's practically in a different movie altogether.
Their operation seems a little too well-orchestrated, especially since the movie supposedly take place less than three weeks after they've been sprung after doing a dime in Attica where one guesses they studied electronic eavesdropping in between lifting weights. The Bad Guys are a little disappointing. That's why it's rating is between 6 and 7. It had an interesting story line, sustained suspense and for the most part was well acted. Me, I would have gone to Tahiti; to each his own.
Once I overheard a conversation of two young people, aspiring actors, I believe. I'm not very good at judging people's acting, but I do recognize, when somebody acts bad. Victor Argo is a pleasure to see, but he's wasted here with nothing to do in a really small role. The book was quite good, too. Then the crooks follow the girl and her father to the subway station where they eventually kill the father in front of the girl. But I also have a sneaky affection for Douglas thrillers where he starts out as a sleek, rich businessman and ends up with an ax in his hand. As a side note, when is the last time Michael Douglas had an on-screen wife within 20 years of his own age? Fifteen minutes before the end, I decided for 5 out of 10.
What was the big rush? For his part, Michael Douglas does well, though he is a little too slick to portray besieged decent men. Famke Janssen is good as his wife. My 11 year old nephew said it was the scariest movie he's ever seen. My hunch is that Harrison Ford was first choice to play this role. Conrad Michael Douglas needs to get in order to save his young daughter Jessie's Skye McCole Bartusiak life. It's a role basically every actress could had played.
She wanted to see Douglas and so I went. I read the book for this before I saw the movie on tape. The book also goes more into the past of Elizabeth, how she ended up the way she was, and it makes more sense in the book. See it, just don't expect 'MacBeth' which Bean is supposed to be doing in London this summer. It is a pity that the cast of this film did not hear that conversation. Who else can start out so well-groomed and end up as such a mad dog? It still provides the movie with some good moments and characters and also give the movie an extra sense of professionalism involved. Michael Douglas played as usual good in the role as a psychiatrist.
The number, incidentally, doesn't refer to an uplink code or satellite designation or encryption key or any of the usual millenial McGuffins of late. And who was she talking to on the phone at the morgue? Through a series of somewhat improbable actions everyone ends up on the little island at night where all the anonymous graves are. There is a point, when the wife is struggling with her leg cast and crutches and the daughter is cleverly signaling her whereabouts and Douglas is trying to perform instant psychiatry at an Emergency Room tempo, and flashbacks accompany the time-honored Visit to the Scene of the Previous Trauma, when it just all seemed laid on too thick. And I also have the feeling that the movie would had been better of without the Jennifer Esposito. Maybe it's the plot that keeps me intensively glued to the screen, I don't know. These combined with the silly plot make it hard to get into.