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Bottom Line at the Top: Decent movie for parents; Boring movie for kids. This is a better movie than its box office results suggest. It is free from all those moments parents usually cringe at when seeing a movie with their children. There are...
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Bottom Line at the Top: Decent movie for parents; Boring movie for kids. This is a better movie than its box office results suggest. It is free from all those moments parents usually cringe at when seeing a movie with their children. There are no passing gas gags like in Charlotte's Web, Underdog, and several other thousands of movies targeted at the pre-teen audience. However, those "parental cringe" moments are precisely the ones the kids love. The mistake here was in marketing. It should have been targeted to the Hallmark Channel crowd instead of the Disney/Nickelodean folks. This one is more Shirley Temple than Miley Cyrus.
Posted jul 13, 2008 2:11 am pt
Keifer Sutherland was one of the bad boys of hollywood in his early career. With stand out roles in both Stand By Me and The Lost Boys, he appeared ready for greatness. However, he hit a slump in 1990s and went to Montana. There he briefly became...
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Keifer Sutherland was one of the bad boys of hollywood in his early career. With stand out roles in both Stand By Me and The Lost Boys, he appeared ready for greatness. However, he hit a slump in 1990s and went to Montana. There he briefly became a roper on the rodeo curcuit.
A risky concept show called 24 shot him back to superstar status. As Jack Bauer, he takes on the world in the show where events take place in real time. Each episode is a different hour of the very intense day. With the prospects of the show succceeding slim, the writers attempted to bring many of the major storylines to an end by midway through the first season. However, the surge of the show in popularity kept it away from cancellation. Many describe the show as movie quality television. Sutherland\'s work on the show is both intense and thought provoking. While his character is asked to do the impossible time and again, Sutherland is able to play it as though it were really happening to him. He is an excellent actor well fit to his part.
Posted oct 20, 2005 11:52 am pt