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Action director Andrew Lau's tense, race-against-time thriller has Richard Gere as a maverick federal agent searching for a parolled sex offender. Forced to accept early retirement due to his abrasive manner with the sex offenders he is supposed to monitor, Department of Public Safety inspector Errol Babbage (Gere) spends his last days on the job training up his replacement Allison Lowry (Claire Danes). But when news emerges that a teenager has gone missing, Babbage, sure that the disappearance is linked to one of his most deviant offenders, sets off into the city's dark underbelly, with Lowry in tow, in an effort to track down the suspect before time runs out.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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The most obvious thing to say about this film is that the director, Andrew Lau, is,belatedly,in thrall to David Fincher's film Seven.Unfortunately, Mr Lau does not seem to possess anything like the talent of Fincher and so he takes an interesting tale and manages to make it less interesting.The first half hour seems like non-stop jump cuts, shaky camera work and arial shots of a car speeding along a desert road.Sound familiar?Thankfully it calms down a little after that, but curiously, despite,or most probably because of,the frenetic editing, the film drags and seems much longer than it actually is.
This really is a shame,because Gere does some of his best work since Internal Affairs,unashamedly playing against his pretty boy image as a burnt-out sex offenders probation officer.Clare Danes is pretty good too, as are most of the cast, and the plot could have made for a really good, low-key thriller.Unfortunately, Lau's direction is shamelessly derivative,at times adolescently unpleasant,and frankly second rate.However,if you can sit through the first half hour, there is something worthwile struggling to get out here.There are some moments that are laughable,these are probation officers after all, so why don't they just call the cops etc.but overall it's not bad.Five stars for Gere's performance,four for Danes and minus one for Lau's dreadful direction.
This really is a shame,because Gere does some of his best work since Internal Affairs,unashamedly playing against his pretty boy image as a burnt-out sex offenders probation officer.Clare Danes is pretty good too, as are most of the cast, and the plot could have made for a really good, low-key thriller.Unfortunately, Lau's direction is shamelessly derivative,at times adolescently unpleasant,and frankly second rate.However,if you can sit through the first half hour, there is something worthwile struggling to get out here.There are some moments that are laughable,these are probation officers after all, so why don't they just call the cops etc.but overall it's not bad.Five stars for Gere's performance,four for Danes and minus one for Lau's dreadful direction.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Amanda Richards
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Richard Gere and Claire Danes star in this dark and disturbing drama about sex offenders and the Government employees who monitor them.
Short Attention Span Summary (SASS):
1. Gere's character Erroll Babbage takes his job very seriously
2. A little TOO seriously if you ask anybody, including his superiors
3. Before they show him the door, they show him Allison Lowry (Danes) and give him a couple of weeks to train her in the job.
4. Her instructions are slightly different
5. A girl goes missing
6. Babbage takes it personally
7. Disjointed and improbable plot follows, filled with disgusting degeneracy, the glaringly obvious and the highly unlikely.
Even winning performances by Gere and Danes can't save this unworkable storyline, which takes them into the depths of depravity in the search for a missing girl. Good supporting performances are seen from KaDee Strickland, Russell Sams and Avril Lavigne.
Allison: What do you think about?
Baggage: I think about a girl who's dead because I didn't look in a closet.
Amanda Richards
Short Attention Span Summary (SASS):
1. Gere's character Erroll Babbage takes his job very seriously
2. A little TOO seriously if you ask anybody, including his superiors
3. Before they show him the door, they show him Allison Lowry (Danes) and give him a couple of weeks to train her in the job.
4. Her instructions are slightly different
5. A girl goes missing
6. Babbage takes it personally
7. Disjointed and improbable plot follows, filled with disgusting degeneracy, the glaringly obvious and the highly unlikely.
Even winning performances by Gere and Danes can't save this unworkable storyline, which takes them into the depths of depravity in the search for a missing girl. Good supporting performances are seen from KaDee Strickland, Russell Sams and Avril Lavigne.
Allison: What do you think about?
Baggage: I think about a girl who's dead because I didn't look in a closet.
Amanda Richards
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By S. Bowers
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
When watching this film you need to be fairly focused as I found it a bit disjointed & quite hard viewing. Having said that stick with it, as overall, not a bad film.
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good film
As usual, excellent service and product, very pleased with it, I shall order more from the same site in the future
Published 2 months ago by Janice Starnes
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RUBBISH/GARBAGE!
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2.0 out of 5 stars
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Compelling and underrated.
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Published 23 months ago by C. Matthews
4.0 out of 5 stars
very enjoyable but disturbing
i have wanted to watch this film for a while.
so i was not disapointed.
so i was not disapointed.
Published on 29 Oct 2010 by joe
3.0 out of 5 stars
Tough viewing but well performed
The three stars I gave this film is largely for a one-off view. It's doubtful you'd want to see this again afterwards - not because it's particularly scandalous or shocking, but... Read more
Published on 10 Sep 2010 by Benminx
5.0 out of 5 stars
great film
gere should get a oscar for his brooding performance great support from avril lavigne was glued when i watched it dark undertones give it a go you might like it
Published on 20 Jun 2010 by James Redford
2.0 out of 5 stars
OK film
I nearly turned the DVD off after 20mins. Carried on to the end. Not a film I would watch again
Published on 22 May 2009 by S. Balloo
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