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Bailout: The Age of Greed (2013)
Could be the worst movie I've ever seen
Full of spoilers. You've been warned. The movie starts off with the most unluckiest man in the world. He's a security guard and not a cop, his wife has cancer that the insurance company won't cover, all of his money is in a stock, that goes belly up, and on top of that he's being taken for more money because of a bad stock. He gets a lawyer, who screws him over. During all of this, this huge muscular man is completely calm and barely gives more than a boo-whoo, aw shucks vibe. Never gets angry. Until the ADA blows him off, and he curses at his secretary, but barely. It's supposed to be this profound moment, and it just falls so flat, and so weak. Then his wife kills herself. She cleans the house nice, does all his laundry, and then crawls into bed and fills it with blood. We finally get a little emotion out of our main character.
It takes about 70 of the 98 minutes to get into any sort of action, when he accidentally kills the ADA. Then he goes on his spree, magically not being seen by cameras, or people, despite the fact he's using a very loud hi powered rifle in a sweet little Great Neck, Long Island.
The climax of the movie starts with him picking people off from a parking garage, and then when he runs out of bullets, he walks out onto a horrifed street. People--who should have ran away but are for some reason just hanging out in perfect shooting range--are crying at the site of the masacre, while this man who walks out of where the gun shots were coming from, looking very angry and disinterested, and holding a freaking mask in his hand, just walks across the street without anyone noticing. If this movie ended with him being a ghost that killed people, that would be more believable. The line at the end of the movie "you know the difference between a banka and a gangsta?".....this guy wasn't a gangster! He was ex-military, he was a security guard, he was taking care of his family.....what's gangster about his character until he has a nervous breakdown at the end? And even then, he's not a gangster......he's apparently a murdering mastermind. Maybe if he'd chosen a profession of heists and murdering people, he wouldn't be in the financial woes that he was in.
I watched this movie because I saw that Eric Roberts, Keith David, Edward Furlong, and John Heard were in it, so I figured it wouldn't be AWFUL. The story was bad, boring, drawn out, and ham-fisted. The writing was boring, and so full of agenda that it loses its emotional hold completely. The acting was flat--all around. Eric Roberts is this high powered lawyer that could just as easily be a hippie on W4th.
I don't lightly give this a 1 star review. This moving is insultingly bad, and should honestly be ashamed of itself. It's not so bad it's good. It's not redeemable at all.
Sublime (2007)
Yuck
I just watched this movie last night and it was s**t. Don't get me wrong, the premise was really good, and if you ever wanted to see the blistering downward spiral of iatrogenic disease, it will definitely give it to you.
To begin, the movie is headed by Thomas Cavanagh. He carried himself very well in a supporting role as Zach Brath's brother on Scrubs, however as a leading man, he stunk. His confident-yet-sheepish (or sheepish-yet-confident...whatever) wit and personality can only take him so far. His dialog is often cliché and just not interesting.
The whole movie was actually not interesting at all. Half the movie is just contrived jibba-jabba to explain the plot. It gives it an overall feel that the whole movie is a dream but **oh no, spoiler warning** it's not. The main character goes in for a routine colonoscopy and the doctor screws up. At the party the night before, someone mentions Thoracoscopic Sympathectomy and blamo, the doctor screws up and does that procedure instead of a colonoscopy. Then he ends up with a staph infection from a small cut that he some how got when being sat in a wheel chair. He later ends up with gangrene. For some reason, the wound was never wrapped up and just had exposed, pusing lesions. Apparently, no one cared enough to take care of it, so they amputate the leg...without his consent, let alone his knowledge of it. All the while, there is this crazy orderly that is over medicating him with heavy doses of morphine and other things. He then starts mutilating him with something that looks like poultry shears for a reason that I don't know. Either they never explained it, or I stopped paying attention by then.
He eventually gets too medicated and becomes catatonic. He remembers his wife telling him that if you see yourself hit the ground when you're falling in a dream, you'll really die. So, he does that, and he dies. And no one gives a f**k.
The end