Man on Fire (Tony Scott 2004)
Posted on June 02 at 13.05, 2005 by Eric Mahleb
Denzel Washington plays an ex-assassin who can not make peace with his past. Tormented, alcoholic, he is hired to be the bodyguard of a young girl in Mexico City and must protect her from potential kidnappers. Will she help him regain the dignity he lost long ago? This headache inducing film will leave you spinning from its cheap and predictable melodramatic moments, empty dialogues and from its explosion of non-stop, constantly-in-your-face visual tricks.
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Eagle Eye - Cinema, Sci-Fi, Futurism, Technogaianism and other banalities by Eric Mahleb Says:
February 4, 2009 at 19.30[...] With Eagle Eye, Hollywood is showing its ability to capitalize on modern trends and on the public’s fears. Unfortunately, as is often the case, it does so in a superficial way that distorts and simplifies the issues being presented. In a film that Tony Scott would have been proud of but that would have made Stanley Kubrick vomit, an AI created by US Intelligence (a term which the film makes clear can be an oxymoron) looses its marbles and decides to take action against its own government. In doing so, it hijacks the lives of ordinary citizens and, in a series of completely preposterous and nonsensical events, assumes control of everything from airports and subway systems to cell phone networks. Only Shia LaBeouf (who seems to have a knack for playing in really bad movies) can save the world from doom. And also the ingenious idea to empty the cooling fluid that the AI depends on to survive…Even a bit of criticism at the Bush administration can’t save this film from its own mediocrity. [...]