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The Lost Angel (2005)
The ending ruined it all for me
This movie has a really low rating and I only got it because Judd Nelson is in it. I very much value him as a gorgeous character actor, who unfortunately usually ends up in crappy movies. This is not his best performance, either, but it's believable and definitely better than those of some of the other cast (which wasn't brilliant but also not as bad as other people here say in my opinion). So I expected a bad movie. Surprise surprise! I liked it a lot. Yeah there are certain elements you have already seen in other movies. Which movie today does not have elements already been used? It's unavoidable. I found the movie very exciting and not predictable at all. As a matter of fact, I suspected many of the characters to be the murderer. I was looking for the clues in everything they said and did, and I enjoyed it a lot (except for this stupid and over-long love scene, it's not that love scenes bother me I actually like them when they fit in, but this one did not fit in at all it was simply pointless)! But then there came the end. I don't know how one of the other people who wrote a comment was able to predict the ending. Because I did not see it coming at all. For me, it was simply unexpected and pointless. It ruined the movie for me. I would have given it a 8/10 if somebody else did it. But this way...5/10, and I'm being very grateful here!
Mr. Rock 'n' Roll: The Alan Freed Story (1999)
Great music...but the story seems incomplete
I bought this movie on DVD because I like Judd Nelson and I like the music. I didn't know who Alan Freed was before watching the movie, I had heard the name and knew he had something to do with Rock n Roll, but that's it. I'm afraid I still don't know that much about him after watching this movie. There were quite a couple of scenes (especially those which showed his private life) when I was like "hello, did I miss something?". Sometimes there didn't seem to be much of a connection between the scenes...there simply was too much music (which by the way was great!) and very little story. I know Judd Nelson as a gorgeous character actor and I read he wanted to do this movie because he loved the music, so I'm sure he put some effort in it. I guess there simply was too little time to support any real character development, or else the movie was made for people who already know about Alan Freed's work and don't mind about the gaps. Anyway, I gave the movie 6/10, but not necessarily as an Alan Freed Story, but a Rock n Roll story.
Dark Asylum (2001)
a thriller in slow motion
what can I say? If it wasn't for Judd Nelson I wouldn't even have finished watching this movie. But he's just as brilliant in his role as always. It's not that I'm not used to him being the only positive thing about a movie, he's done a lot of poor ones. But this one beats them all, even though I think the story itself wasn't that bad. It was just poorly done. There's a big psycho in a closed hospital for retarded people managing to escape his cell, and kills everybody who dares trying to stop him from leaving, and he's intelligent enough to stop help from the outside getting in. So the only two people left are a female psychologist and the janitor, who is retarded himself. At the beginning they are trying to hunt the psycho down, but soon they are the ones who are hunted by him. Unfortunately, the hunt takes place in slow motion. It does start to get scary sometimes, but you get bored because it takes so long until something happens (if something happens). Appearantly they went out of ideas for more scary things to happen. In the end Quitz (the janitor) dies saving the psychologist, because he swallows the key the psycho is after, which of course he gets back (urgh...but you don't see how he does that), so there's not even a real happy ending. The whole movie is too dark (and I don't mean the atmosphere, the pictures are dark, sometimes you have to concentrate to see what's happening), and even though I never expect thrillers to be very realistic, this one is laughable. Judd Nelson once again manages to create a wonderful, believable character on screen, the other actors do their job too, but they couldn't stop me giving the movie a 3/10 (just for their effort, because the movie itself would get 1/10, and only because there's no 0!)
White Rush (2003)
positive surprise!
Maybe it's because I started to get used in seeing Judd Nelson in movies that don't really fit my taste or that were poorly done...maybe it's because the last movie I've seen my most favorite actor in before this one was Dark Asylum which is one of the worst movies I ever watched from beginning to end... But "White Rush" was a positive surprise for me. I found the story quite exciting and I really got suspicious about who's the bad guy and who's the spy and who is trustworthy and who they should better avoid. I really wanted to know how the story would end, and the end was not a disappointment at all. For a change, it was neither all predictable nor completely far-fetched. The actors served their purpose, they played their roles believable, but there wasn't really much of a character development...but then again it wasn't supposed to be a character movie but an action movie, so I guess that's alright (but Judd Nelson is just such a genius character actor so that it's always a disappointment when he plays "flat" characters where he can't show his brilliance). It's not one of my most favorite movies, but it definitely did not leave me like "never again". I gave it 6/10 and I think that's well deserved.
Deceived (2002)
what is this all about?
I watched this movie because I read about the story on the back of the DVD cover and I really liked it because I'm a big fan of the X-Files series and it seemed to be something of that sort. But unfortunately this movie was a complete disappointment. I watched it twice (only because I was confused after watching it the first time and I thought I might have missed something) and it still leaves me confused and wondering what the main plot is (if it has a plot, that is). The only highlights in the movie are the main actors (at least the male cast). I think Judd Nelson's performance was brilliant. Having taken basic lessons in sign language I got to know some hearing disabled people myself and something they all had in common was their calm nature. I think Judd was very believable in his role. His performance and the performances of Louis Gossett Jr and Jefferson Mappin made me give this movie a 4/10. It was a pleasure seeing them play so well together, but the best performance can't save a bad story, so I can't really recommend this movie to anyone but fans of the actors, and even they probably won't watch it more than once.