5.5 stars of 10. This film has turned into a bit of a Cult Classic through the years. The story is good, but many of the individual lines are not, and the directing is not good.
However, Bill Pullman picks up momentum about halfway through the film & ends up putting in a good performance with his subtle intricacies that we now know about as his career unfolded, and still is unfolding. We have to remember, this was only the 2nd good movie that Pullman starred in as 2 years earlier he starred in 'The Serpent And The Rainbow'. So this was very early in Pullman's career. Pullman got a late start to his movie career as he was in his mid-30s when he starred in each of these films. Pullman star's alongside Bill Paxton & Bud Cort in this movie & Cort puts on an extremely good performance in the film. Cort puts on a controlled dynamic performance that certainly works.
We lost Paxton at a very young age, a talented Actor & Director. He plays his role strangely but it works okay. While his performance is competent, it's not his best work & not one of his better roles as we learned what he could do in films that came after during his great career.
All together, this is a fairly good film that is lifted by Pullman, Cort & the story.
However, Bill Pullman picks up momentum about halfway through the film & ends up putting in a good performance with his subtle intricacies that we now know about as his career unfolded, and still is unfolding. We have to remember, this was only the 2nd good movie that Pullman starred in as 2 years earlier he starred in 'The Serpent And The Rainbow'. So this was very early in Pullman's career. Pullman got a late start to his movie career as he was in his mid-30s when he starred in each of these films. Pullman star's alongside Bill Paxton & Bud Cort in this movie & Cort puts on an extremely good performance in the film. Cort puts on a controlled dynamic performance that certainly works.
We lost Paxton at a very young age, a talented Actor & Director. He plays his role strangely but it works okay. While his performance is competent, it's not his best work & not one of his better roles as we learned what he could do in films that came after during his great career.
All together, this is a fairly good film that is lifted by Pullman, Cort & the story.