...in so I thought that Nick Of Time must have been a low budget, straight to DVD film and guess what… I was right!
Unfortunately starring Johnny Depp and the excellent Christopher Walken just isn’t enough to save this movie from being a bit of a washout. From the synopsis I thought that although it was likely to be a low budget thriller, from the A-List cast I thought that it may just be a diamond in the rough and not the budget bin filler it was ... ...cheap feel to it right from the start, it was made in 1995 so it’s obviously a little dated but straight away when the credits came on I got the feeling that it was likely to be a little substandard and lacklustre as so many straight to DVD movies are. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a bad film, far from it actually and at times it shows real potential but I feel that if a bigger budget were issued and the story was revised a little then it could ...
Great_reviewer07 26.10.2009
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Advantages: Hooked from the start Disadvantages: Can't think of one
Nick of Time is a great film from 1995 which I'd recommend as a must see.
Nick of Time stars Johnny Depp, Christopher Walken, Roma Raffia, Charles S Dutton, Peter Strauss, Gloria Rueben and Marsha Mason. Johnny Depp is Gene Watson who is randomly picked out from an every day crowd in LA's Union Station and given a mission which turns out to be his worst nightmare. Gene is seperated from his daughter by two strangers who give him a gun, a timetable ... ...she leaves a political rally. If he doesn't carry out the demands, he loses his little girl who they now have as a hostage. Gene has six bullets, ninety minutes and no choice but to carry out his mission. The film is 90 minutes long and is filmed in 'real time' so that onscreen events unfold minute by minute - adding to the tension and suspense.
He quickly realises that there is more people involved than just the two at the station. Throughout the ...
Deetzyb 23.01.2005
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