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I thought it was a great movie, but actually...
Freddy 2021-12-31 08:02:56
John Travolta left a deep impression on me in "Face Changing", so I thought this film would not be bad there. In fact, the actors are good, including Samuel L. Jackson and Connie Nielsen. The problem lies in the screenwriter, lack of logic, true or false, and can't figure out what's going on. In order to figure it out, I read the introduction of the director behind, and made up the whole thing, and I feel good about myself, thinking that this design and arrangement will be surprisingly successful. It seems that good actors are not enough.
Extended Reading
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[first lines]
Osbourne: [narration] The French tried to build a canal here before the Americans. At the height of their effort, 500 workers were dyin' a week from malaria and yellow fever. They couldn't come up with cemetary space fast enough. Not to mention the morale problem all those crosses would have made. So they bought shiploads of vinegar in Cuba, and in each barrel, they sealed one corpse, and then they sold them as medical cadavers all over Europe. And for a while, that was their principal source of profit. You see, this place has always had a special way of dealin' with profit and death.
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Styles: Osbourne's the closest thing we have to an in-house investigator.
Hardy: And here you are going out of house... now, how does that make you feel, Jules?
Osbourne: Hostile and uncooperative, sir.
Hardy: Fantastic.