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Life is given ... Life is taken away. Starring Helen Mirren and Cuba Gooding Jnr, Shadowboxer is a tense thriller which rewrites all the rules.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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This would get 3 and a half stars from if it was possible. This is neither a 5 star or a one star movie. So its not in the same ball-park as The Godfather or Goodfellas but its miles better than a lot of rubbish that comes out of Hollywood today.
The cast are all good. Helen Mirren as Rose and Cuba Gooding Jr as Mickey are two asassins who are paid to kill Vicki, but as Rose has cancer and Vicki is about to give birth, Vicki is spared. In a role that Gary Oldman would have played 10 years ago, Stephen Dorff is the psycho husband/boyfriend who is left wondering what has happened to his child and the mother (who he was paying to have killed).
The film strays into areas that a lot of films won't go near. Mixed race relationships, and older women with a younger black man and the violence and sex is quite explicit. So if you don't like that sort of thing don't buy it or rent it.
In places it is overly stylised, but I cared about what happened to at least some of the characters and therefore overall I would recommend it. Renting first may be adviseable as it will not to everybodies taste. However I will certainly be watching it again and would purchase the film at the right price.
The cast are all good. Helen Mirren as Rose and Cuba Gooding Jr as Mickey are two asassins who are paid to kill Vicki, but as Rose has cancer and Vicki is about to give birth, Vicki is spared. In a role that Gary Oldman would have played 10 years ago, Stephen Dorff is the psycho husband/boyfriend who is left wondering what has happened to his child and the mother (who he was paying to have killed).
The film strays into areas that a lot of films won't go near. Mixed race relationships, and older women with a younger black man and the violence and sex is quite explicit. So if you don't like that sort of thing don't buy it or rent it.
In places it is overly stylised, but I cared about what happened to at least some of the characters and therefore overall I would recommend it. Renting first may be adviseable as it will not to everybodies taste. However I will certainly be watching it again and would purchase the film at the right price.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This film was amazing and in places beautiful. I find it hard to believe that it has recieved negative reviews, they obviously didn't get it! It dealt with so many different human emotions on a very passionate level from people who's lives are very different to most of ours, and I found this most intriguing. The characters in this film will stay with me for a very long time. Well done Helen & co for recognising and becoming involved in such a hard hitting and thought provoking film.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Contract killers Rose(Helen Mirren) and Mikey(Cuba Gooding Jr)botch a hit when Rose cannot kill a pregnant woman.They instead "disappear"the woman and they live together protecting the woman while continuing with their day job until a face from the past comes calling.
To reveal any more would spoil this gem of a movie.First time director Lee Daniels has come up with a startingly fresh and different kind of thriller that just stays on the right side of being wilfully perverse.
He elicits Gooding's best performance in years and together with Mirren they bring a subtle intensity to their unlikely personal and professional relationship.
Stephen Dorff is fun as a loopy and nasty crimelord and Joseph Gordon Levitt is strangely compelling as the "Doc".There are several interesting relationships that all work to a lesser or greater extent and while there are some pretty big plot loopholes,Shadowboxer is a fairly audacious and extremely entertaining piece.
Highly Recommended
To reveal any more would spoil this gem of a movie.First time director Lee Daniels has come up with a startingly fresh and different kind of thriller that just stays on the right side of being wilfully perverse.
He elicits Gooding's best performance in years and together with Mirren they bring a subtle intensity to their unlikely personal and professional relationship.
Stephen Dorff is fun as a loopy and nasty crimelord and Joseph Gordon Levitt is strangely compelling as the "Doc".There are several interesting relationships that all work to a lesser or greater extent and while there are some pretty big plot loopholes,Shadowboxer is a fairly audacious and extremely entertaining piece.
Highly Recommended
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Good Actors, Shame about the Movie
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Published on 27 Jun 2007 by K. Blake
Did she need the money?
What on earth was Helen Mirren doing starring in such a foul mouthed sadistic movie?
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