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in recent years , harrison ford has been such a grave screen presence , scowling through the likes of tom clancy 's jack ryan series , _ the_fugitive _ , and last year 's smash _ air_force_one _ , that one wonders if the rogue charm that made him such a superstar had been completely drained from his system .
apparently , it was just lying dormant .
with ivan reitman 's enjoyable romantic comedy / adventure
_ six_days ,
_ seven_nights _ ,
the lovable scoundrel is back , giving audiences a fresh reminder of why ford is one of the most enduring and popular modern screen icons .
ford plays quinn harris , a carefree and slightly slobby ( endearingly so ) pilot in the tropics
whose broken - down plane crashes in a storm , stranding him and his charter , new york magazine editor robin monroe ( anne heche ) , on a deserted island .
of course , the sophisticated robin and the salt - of - the - earth quinn are at odds long before the plane goes down , and all manner of hostile repartee is exchanged between the two from their first meeting .
while some of the lines fall flat , the formulaic motions work because of the unexpectedly electric chemistry between ford and heche .
both actors , who have largely done serious works as of late , seem liberated by the lack of dramatic weight on their shoulders , and they deliver their zingers , as weak as they sometimes are , with beguiling abandon .
naturally , there 's nothing like a life - threatening crisis to bring two people together , and quinn and robin 's warmup to each other is sped up even further by the arrival of some bloodthirsty pirates .
granted , some conflict needed to be introduced on the island , but this tacked - on development from writer michael browning is a bit too obviously thrown in for the purpose of adding gratuitous action scenes .
but the point is to get the two together , and their newfound affection causes complications for both , but mostly robin , who came to the islands on a vacation with her fiance frank ( david schwimmer ) , who frantically awaits her return on the home island .
reitman , and old , reliable hand at breezy comedies , keeps the pace brisk and capably handles the more action - oriented sequences .
his big accomplishment , however , is bringing the old , smiling ford back .
as appealing and charismatic as he always is , ford has n't been quite this charming and affable in years ; he 's obviously having a blast , and the audience can not help but have one along with him . holding her own is heche , whose scrappy character never becomes the screaming ninny
she initially promises to be ( as the plane goes down , she frantically pops stress pills ) .
she can take her lumps , physical and otherwise , just as well as quinn , making her a formidable foil and ideal match . formulaic and light as a feather , _ six_days ,
_ seven_nights _ could be cited as a classic example of the summer " popcorn " movie season 's lack of substance .
it 's certainly fluff , but it 's unpretentious , undemanding , and -- most importantly -- fun fluff that goes down as easily as a frothy pina colada on a balmy tropical beach
.
pass the popcorn .
P

i think maybe it 's time for the batman series to be put to rest .
not only has the first two films ' unsettling insight into what it would really take for someone to make himself into a " superhero " been abandoned , but this one throws any lingering realism out the window and goes for all - out camp with few traces of the self - mocking restraint of the relatively light - hearted third installment .
let me give you an example : in the first scene of the movie , batman ( george clooney ) and robin ( chris o'donnell ) are summoned to a museum that has been literally turned to ice by mr .
freeze ( arnold schwarzenegger ) in an attempt to steal a diamond .
mr .
freeze 's thugs are armed with none other than hockey sticks , but this is no problem for our heroes : automatic skates shoot out of their shoes , at which point robin manages to get hold of a hockey stick , grabs the diamond , and stick - handles it through the museum .
i might have expected this from an airplane - style farce , but i do n't think that 's what this movie is supposed to be . after all , the previous three batman movies were actually fairly realistic by the standards of the superhero / action genre and kept the corny death - defying stunts to a minimum , while playing the obligatory cheesiness with at least some amount of irony .
not any more ; the list goes on and on in this one .
robin holds onto the outside of a flying rocket ship 30 , 000 feet high in the atmosphere , climbing in the door to save batman .
mr . freeze and poison ivy ( uma thurman ) leap from a skyscraper and survive by landing in a small pond .
a world dominating mad scientist lives in a fortress that seems to have been stolen from the old he - man cartoons .
my very favorite example is the scene in which batgirl ( alicia silverstone ) gets in a race with motorcycle thugs , during which they come up with the clever notion of dousing the road with gasoline and setting it on fire to distract her .
not bad , but would n't the police ( or maybe batman ? )
notice if the road was on fire ?
i knew gotham city was this crazy anarchic place ,
but . . . . it also seems that the creators of the batman movies are obeying some unwritten rule that there have to be more main characters and plot lines in each successive installment .
as if three protagonists and two villains were n't enough , batman and robin
further weighs itself down with an underdeveloped side story of the failing health of bruce wayne 's butler alfred ( michael gough ) , which might have seemed poignant if it was n't surrounded by so much silliness , as well as several scenes with elle macpherson as bruce 's girlfriend which serve no purpose other than to remind us that she is in the movie .
all this might be semi - excusable if the story were interesting and entertaining , but it is n't . in fact ,
it 's kind of boring
.
mr . freeze and poison ivy pale in comparison as villains to past baddies such as jack nicholson 's joker and danny devito 's penguin .
their evil plot is as predictable ( schwarzenegger actually pronounces the words , " today gotham city , tomorrow the world ! " ) as it is lame - brained
( did n't it ever occur to poison ivy that freezing the entire world would kill her precious plants too ? ) .
and robin 's constant challenging of batman
mostly just makes him look bull - headed and stupid and makes us wonder why batman ever would have taken him on as a partner in the first place .
strip away the stars , the fancy set design , and the status as a " batman movie , " and all you have here is another barely passable summer action flick .
N

i want to correct what i wrote last year in my retrospective of david lean 's war picture .
i still think that " the bridge on the river kwai " does n't deserve being the number 13 in the american film institute 's list of the 100 greatest american movies .
and i think that " 12 angry men " , " witness for the prosecution " and " paths of glory " would have been better choices for the oscar for the best picture of 1957 .
but i ca n't deny the importance of " the bridge on the river kwai " - cinematically and in its contents .
the film is set in burma in 1943 .
a batallion of british soldiers in japanese war captivity is forced by the japanese to build a strategically momentous railway bridge over the river kwai .
but the british commanding officer , colonel nicholson ( alec guinness ) , insists - corresponding to the geneva conventions - that his officers need n't work as simple workmen .
struggling toughly , col .
nicholson forces the japanese commandant , col .
saito ( sessue hayakawa ) , to give way in this respect .
afterwards col .
nicholson assiduously commits himself for the building of the bridge .
he considers it an opportunity to raise his men 's morale , and he wants to prove superior british capabilities to the japanese .
but the british high command sends a few soldiers who shall destroy the bridge , among them the american shears ( william holden ) - an escapee from the japanese prison camp - and the british major warden ( jack hawkins ) . . .
a flaw of the picture is the clich ?
d characterization of the japanese people .
they are presented as if they were intellectually inferior to the british - as if the japanese were incapable of building a bridge .
and the film does n't consistently question the military spirit as kubrick does in " paths of glory " .
lean seems rather fascinated by the military hierarchies .
this is also perceptible in the conversations between col . nicholson and col .
saito .
in this regard it is symptomatic that shears , who doubts the military logic , is presented as a somehow unpleasant person .
the audience is supposed to applaud
col .
nicholson 's perseverance concerning the question if his officers shall work on the bridge or not .
the spectators are supposed to neglect the risks col .
nicholson takes for his men .
( the plot by - passes these risks . )
that means , the picture is n't perfect .
but it has a lot of virtues as well .
"
the bridge on the river kwai " shows the " madness " of war and what it can produce in people 's minds .
it shows how colonel nicholson becomes possessed by the idea of being a hero and that others ( like shears ) get cynics .
and lean 's film is an interesting study of characters with clashing interests .
these points and the sometimes ironic dialogue make this film an anti - war film ( despite inconsistencies in the treatment of this theme ) .
david lean 's direction is really effective and atmospherically perfect .
his film is highly suspenseful , especially in its dramatic ( if not wholly plausible ) showdown .
the film is also well - photographed and has an apt score .
alec guinness does a magnificent job of bringing col . nicholson to life and making him such an interesting character .
the other actors deliver fine performances as well .
i like this extraordinary film despite its weaknesses .
( c ) karl rackwitz ( klein k ? ris , germany , 1999 )

P