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The device of the imaginary Bogart alter ego works well, especially in the climactic scene with Diane Keaton.
even flawed ones and this film works in fulfillment of that.
It's plot isn't entirely realistic and feels like a comic book story yet in some strange way it works.
What a great idea, it works well and I wish we'd hear more of it in bigger Hollywood productions.
Columbo lingers in the harbor, in no hurry at all, works together with Mac (because his boss insists), makes him drive his car, gets entangled with Robert Vaughn in the car, with the telephone, tries TM on the deck of the boat.
The guy who played Alex in the movie (Doug Copithorne) works next door to me and is a friend of mine.
It's a fine idea, and it works great, too, because the outcomes of the situations are different, as well... meaning, you see a scene and go "Oh, right, I remember this from the first... oh yeah, now he... what the ...!?" The plot is interesting, new and old parts alike.
He and his partner stand to make a cool million if the plan works.
In London, the pimp Derek (Johnny Harris) assigns the prostitute Kelly (Lorraine Stanley) that works for him to find a young girl on the streets to escort the powerful mobster Duncan Allen (Alexander Morton).
This is a key contribute for why the film works because having written the material the actors appear to know it inside and out and therefore give it that extra sense of naturalism.
Its one of those films that almost works but falls just short so seems more like a missed opportunity then something you actually will want to sit through.
My wife and I had not heard of Jamaica Inn at all prior to buying a DVD collection of Hitchcock's works.
At times, "Angie" feels like a hybrid of other films ("Working Girl", "Beaches", "Saturday Night Fever", "Moonstruck" & "Pretty Woman") but it works.
It works because of the magical sparkle between Powell and Loy, which chiefly owes its magic to Powell's remarkable and humorous personality and the unique response to it which seems to have emerged spontaneously from Myrna Loy from the moment they met.
The best that can be said about this film, like most recent works of its genre, is that it's quite inoffensive except to the intelligence of its viewers and the memories of the artists & works it's plundering.
A good mix of atmosphere and filth that works well on both levels.
I think the plot works and the acting is good.
I think that it works that there are two guys stranded on the planet rather than one.
That's Entertainment II works in the sense that for musical buffs a That's Entertainment XI would work if it offered MORE clips of musical movies even of the most dubious quality.
Like most autobiographical works this film has a resonance that isn't present in other works.
As Crooklyn is one of Spike Lee's best works so is this one of Woody Allen's best.
This is by far one of the most bizarre films I've seen, and I'm familiar with the works of Jodorowsky and Lynch.
The film works well as a light spy film(without becoming farcical), delivering, as the title suggests, sneaking, as well as conspiracies.
He goes way overboard in virtually every area, yet somehow it works to the film's benefit!
Many people who dislike Solondz films just can't stand the often vicious or disturbing denizens that inhabit his works.
Lars von Trier's original Kingdom works on so many levels - entertaining, scary, thoughtful, full of lifelike though odd characters and the genius of the "dogme" style of filming created by von Trier.
The movie for me works on almost every level and if you ever have a chance to watch this little gem do so.
I could not but think of such works as Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment or such films as Schindler's List, because I am fascinated by the portrayals of seemingly ordinary people put in situations of fundamental moral choice.
Shameless, yes, but STRIKE COMMANDO works as a beyond-insipid "unstoppable warrior with a vendetta" vehicle for the incomparably bad Reb Brown.
The cinematography was great, it's meant for a film like this. the guy doing it clearly had the right idea and it works very well for low-budget.
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