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Messiah (2001)
ugh
Although a tad too bloody for my taste, I was able to overcome the quick factor to stay with the story... right up to the end, which seemed totally forced and not at all in keeping with the character of DI Metcalfe. The guy who turns his brother in for murder would NEVER drive away from a hit and run... especially after he sees the kid he hit *move*.
And the kid would never grow up to enlist in the police dept. and end up in the same squad as Metcalfe.
Plus, it gave me nightmares. If you've got a low tolerance for gratuitous blood & gore, and an advanced degree of skepticism, avoid this movie at all costs.
I wish I had my 2.5 hours back.
Cast Away (2000)
good but disjointed
Basically, I liked the movie and think that Hanks did a fine job.
But whoever decided to jump cut from the first couple of months on the island to FOUR YEARS LATER did a terrible disservice to the audience. In doing so we skipped over what could have been a fascinating story of Chuck's growth and an opportunity for Hanks to really blow us out of the water.
Instead we get an okay film with a likeable character and an interesting (but not unpredictable) ending.
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)
Yawn... is it over yet?
Feminist? Hardly. Given that all except one of the stories deals with how *lonely* these women are without a "real" relationship ... preferably with a man (in the Lesbian relationship, one of them is very conveniently dying).
And the dialogue? Good thing there wasn't more of it because what there *was* of it was ridiculous.
I can see where it would be a film festival favorite... it's got "pretentious" written all over it.