I thought this one of the best movies I have ever seen!!! I loved it!!! When I seen it had Christian Slater in it I was this movie is going to be so not good, cause I'm not a big fan of Christian, well did this movie change my mind. The whole movie from start to finish was awesome. I just can't get over how great it was. I love this movie!!!
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Well to me it is one of the best movies. I didn't expect this much from it, I seen the preview and I was like this might be a good movie other then Christian being in it. But when I seen it I was blown away, and I am really a big Christian Slater fan now. Why this movie didn't good at the box office is a mystery. I should have done a lot better.
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I loved this movie also and I believe that just because a movie doesn't do well at the box office, doesn't make it a bad movie. Just like music that doesn't sell a lot or is not played on the radio, doesn't mean that their isn't any music worth listening to that isn't on the Top 40 charts.
Some other good movies that I think didn't do well at the box office, but I still enjoy are:
Stealing Harvard
Judgment Night
Trial And Error(with Kramer from Seinfeld)
Identity
Every day is a new chance to stop procrastination.
Yea i agree on "Identity", it's a great movie.
"I ain't got time to bleed"
Christian rocks and this movie ist great!
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sharethe scene with Chris in the police cell with the water rushing in.....wow.....suspence at its best
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I don't understand this board sometimes. Face it, this movie was bad. The script was terrible. Things just happend to be where the needed to be for a story to continue. All of the last second saves, i.e jail scene, the hand cuff scene towards the end. And Randy Quaid as a sheriff was a stretch anyway. Oh Well to each his (or her) own I guess.
sharePersonally, when i first watched it i was only watching it for Morgan Freeman, but this movie did have some terrific gun fight scenes. Slater was better then expected, and although the storyline was a bit "Shacky", i thought that the acting and the suspence made up for it. Plus, i was glad to see that Jim got away with a bag of cash!
shareI thought this was a really great movie too!
"When your down here with me you'll float too!!"
I don't think it got what it deserved.
Ive spoken to a fair few people I know and non of them know this film which is a shame because its great
I watched it last night on VHS, and loved the prison cell flood scene!!, how they did that was brilliant, an awful lot of hard work and thought must have gone into it. I really liked how they faded the Jars Of Clay song into the background during the final scene, and rolled the credits.
Love your "IT" signature-quote there s_evans_4! :D.
What's with the negativity on Slater? I think he's a great actor, a lot better than some of the higher profile and paid actors in Hollywood today. If only he didn't get screwed up on drugs he'd be right up there today I reckon.
When the *beep* did we get ice-cream?
This movie is only great if you are looking for a laugh when surfing through the channels...how many times can you use the ol' out of bullets bit?
The question is...which is the worse movie involving Freeman and Slater, this or Prince of Thieves?
Eternally underrated christian slater...
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I know this is a really old thread, but after hearing this was such a bad movie I decided out of boredom to finally see how bad. But I must admit I enjoyed it, although I'd hardly call it a great movie. I gave it a 6/10 (a solid D if this was school).
I LOVED the premise, I'm not sure why but it seemed to combine a heist movie with the Poseidon Adventure. Plus the acting (even Randy Quaid, to an extent) was pretty damn good. Plot-wise the movie surprised me a couple times, so overall I enjoyed it.
BUT, there were so many problems with the film that I found myself laughing many times. For starters, almost all of the characters that ended up "trapped" dealt with it in the stupidest ways possible. "Oh no! Somebody handcuffed me to a decorative wooden handrail! I couldn't possibly break it by kicking it repeatedly, even though the damn things break easily all the time even under normal use." Then there was the fact that, despite there being several tall brick buildings around, nobody decided to just lay low on the roof. Every character seemed to think they were safest at water-level, and then seemed shocked when that decision proved foolhardy. Then there was the fact that a great deal of this film's resolutions to characters "problems" were simply based on luck (for example, transformers exploding, conveniently timed to kill just the villains and no one else).
Overall I still want to like this film, cause I loved the cast (except for Minnie Driver's pathetic "American" accent), and I really enjoyed the premise and hoped they'd do more with it. The problem is they didn't do much, so the whole time watching I kept thinking that this could have been done so much better by someone else, which diminishes a lot of the fun of the movie.