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Another great Freeman Film

Advantages: Keeps you guessing right to the end
Disadvantages: None

As thrillers go this is a good one. It starts off well and I for one didn't see the ending come at all!! I have watched it a few times since and after knowing what happens still don't know how you could figure it out first time round. Mr Freeman gives another top notch acting performance and the rest of the cast also do a very good job. I quite like thrillers to be a bit scary this is intriging but not scary, thus I have only maked it 4 stars - ...

Dand2202 16.03.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Along Came A Spider (DVD)

27,000 nuclear weapons, 1 is missing

Advantages: Another good addition to the Jack Ryan series with amazing performances all round
Disadvantages: Possibly a bit too predictable

...first saw this film in the cinema in around 2002, i wasnt massively aware of the back story of the Jack Ryan character or Tom Clancy novels. I had heard that Harrison Ford and Alec Baldwin had played him in previous films but for some reason i had never got round to see Hunt For Red October, Patriot Games or Clear & Present Danger. Shocking i hear you say! But maybe it was a good thing that i watched this as a stand alone film without the in depth ...
...desperate to learn more about the character and his rise within the CIA and onward. Im not letting my (man) love of Affleck as an actor cloud my judgement but i feel he plays this role really well alongside the always perfect Morgan Freeman. Anyway, enough rambling and confessing man love (bromance), heres the review! PLOT - Inspired by the Tom Clancy novel of the same name the film begins with a look back to the 1973 yom kippur war where an israeli ...

Capodon 24.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Sum Of All Fears (DVD)

High Crimes, No Enjoyment

Advantages: Tries to make Courtroom Drama appeal to a wider audience
Disadvantages: It fails due to bad direction and a weak script

...too many redeeming qualities about High Crimes either. The lighting is awful in places, where they have attempted to create atmosphere by dimming or switching off lights. Instead of adding anything at all this just means you have to strain your eyes a bit to actually see what is going on. The courtroom scenes are quite minimal when you consider that in essence this is a courtroom drama. This opens High Crimes up to a slightly wider audience, but ...
...The main problem with High Crimes is that it’s all been done before. The director fails to over us anything new and for this the film suffers. He’s tried to create a film that will keep you guessing what’s happened throughout with a few thrills along the way. What he’s actually come up with is an obvious end to the film that you can work out from about 20 minutes into it’s 2 hour run time. As for the Thrills I think ...

Andy.mack 14.06.2004 · Read full review
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Review of High Crimes (DVD)

.....and make them cry!!

Advantages: Its dark its scary its good
Disadvantages: Bot alot for this kind of film

When his neice,Naomi(Gina Ravera) is reported missing from Durham, North Carolina Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) goes to Durham only to find his neice is one of a number of women that have vanished. Not long after his arivval a body is found in the woods bound to a tree,and then another woman goes missing,Dr. Kate McTiernan(Ashley Judd). When Kate wakes she finds herself captured by a man calling himself the Casanova. She can hear the cries and whimpers ...
...to escape the Casanova's clutches by jumping of a cliff into water,badly injuring herself, she joins forces with the detective and forensic psychologist Alex Cross to try and catch the Casanova and hopefully save some of the woman she heard whilst trapped in her cell. This is a good old bad guy catches girl,girl escapes good guy brings bad guy to justice,and this film thanks to Morgan freeman and Ashley Judd is a good vurses evil great film. Its ...

englishtrog 09.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Kiss The Girls (DVD)

sit comfortably this is a 3 film review!

Advantages: if you like morgan freeman he stars in them all!
Disadvantages: not a collection of Morgan Freemans best work

...I have to admit match the exceptional quality of some of his other work such as Se7en and my favourite Shawshank Redemption, it can not be held against the acting more due to script writing and screen adaptation of novels. SUM OF ALL FEARS Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller Directed by Phil Alden Robinson Writing credits Tom Clancy (novel) Paul Attanasio (screenplay) Plot Summary A new President of Russia is sworn in quickly after the sudden ...
...and unknown leaving America fearing the imminence of a cold war approaching. Whilst America fears the development of nuclear weapons creating rising tensions, the CIA top dog William Cabot (FREEMAN) authorises his best agent Jack Ryan (AFFLECK) to investigate what is going on - little does he know that a third party terrorists is trying to instigate war between America and Russia. It then becomes a battle to see whether Ryan can stop the terrorist ...

ncp3 17.05.2006 · Read full review
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Review of The Sum Of All Fears / Along Came A Spider / Kiss The Girls (Morgan Freeman Collection) (Box Set) (DVD)