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Kill me or thrill me
by MadJayhawk (movies profile)
Jun 8, 2007
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35 people found this review helpful
Good wacky Coen brother characters make this movie almost bareable. Tom Hanks is terrible. There is no other way to describe his part. Hanks' character ruined this movie which was tottering on the edge of being bad to begin with. The two big jokes, a black person donating money to Bob Jones University and the bombing the garbage barge, got really old after they had been repeated 3 or more times. The cigarette in the mouth thing was over done as well.
The foul-mouthed inside guy was too foul-mouthed and the fight between him and the bomb expert seemed to be contrived in order to allow some foul language to creep into the script in order to justify its rating. It wasn't funny hearing someone saying f**k or muthaf**k over and over and over again. Some scenes in the movie had a different, distracting quality to them. Probably different lighting setups as if they went back 2 months later to shoot a scene.
The gospel music scenes were terrific. They were just straight shots of people singing their hearts out. Beautiful.
I love Coen brothers movies but this one is one I can't love. It is a killer. |
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