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i guess that if a very wild bachelor party had gone really bad , there would be broken furniture , traces of smack and cocaine on the floor , and a dead prostitute in the bathroom .
i guess that if a movie had also gone really bad , there might be the same elements present .
coincidence ?
poor kyle ( a meek looking jon favreau ) . . .
he is about to marry his radiant fiancee , laura ( cameron diaz ) .
but before he exchanges his vows , he embarks to las vegas with his friends for one last blowout .
but this bachelor party has gone about as bad as it could possibly get .
the prostitute has met a horrible , though accidental death , and drugs are everywhere .
the five friends agree that there is enough bad evidence here that will send them to jail for a very long time .
a surprisingly calm robert boyd ( christian slater ) , who looks like he was groomed to make nefarious decisions , ponders their dilemma for a few minutes before deciding that the best thing to do is to bury the body in the desert where she 'll never be found .
although they stomach the gruesome deed of getting rid of the body ( which also disturbingly involves dismantling the body using power saws in order to stuff it into suitcases ) , when they return from their trip , guilt and paranoia begins to set in which slowly consumes some of the five friends .
one is adam ( daniel stern ) he grows increasingly agitated .
whenever people look at his van or whenever a cop glances his way , his blood pressure increases .
or that just may be because of his dysfunctional family .
another is michael , who was actually responsible for her death .
he tries to bury his feelings , but the burden of guilt begins to affect his judgment as well .
boyd is the ?
doer ' of the group .
seemingly suffering from a long psychosis , when he feels as if his secret is about to be exposed , he is apt to take extreme measures to cover up his tracks .
kyle just hopes that his wedding will live up to laura 's demanding expectations .
then , there 's moore ( leland orser ) who speaks 5 lines and walks around with a puzzled look on his face .
the problem with this reprehensible movie is that it wants to be a cruel comedy , but it presents things in a manner that just are n't funny .
drugs , mutilation , and killing your own friends is n't something to be laughed at .
as a straight psychological drama , i could see how it might have worked , as each one tried to maneuver and overcome the weight of their own guilt in their own sometimes - sick ways .
but this movie insults us by assuming that we could simply discard our values for 2 hours .
if you do like this movie , i do n't think that i want to know you .
i did find slater a convincing leader who sways his friends to choose not the right thing
but the ? smart play . '
and diaz adds some brightness to this film as a wedding - needing fiancee .
but
her talents are essentially wasted here .
it 's obvious that the film maker is trying to strike a certain tone .
but the way that he chooses to do it is tasteless .
do not make a very bad decision by seeing this film .
N

any remake of an alfred hitchcock film is at best an uncertain project , as a perfect murder illustrates .
frankly , dial m for murder is not one of the master director 's greatest efforts , so there is ample room for improvement .
unfortunately , instead of updating the script , ironing out some of the faults , and speeding up the pace a little , a perfect murder has inexplicably managed to eliminate almost everything that was worthwhile about dial m for murder , leaving behind the nearly- unwatchable wreckage of a would - be ' 90s thriller .
almost all suspense films are loaded with plot implausibilities .
the best thrillers keep viewers involved enough in what 's going on so that these flaws in logic do n't become apparent until long after the final credits have rolled .
unfortunately , in a perfect murder , the faults are often so overt that we become aware of them as they 're happening .
this is a very bad sign .
not only do such occurrences shatter any suspension of disbelief , but they have the astute viewer looking for the next such blunder .
of course , in the case of a perfect murder , at least that gives an audience member something to do besides concentrating on the inane plot and the lifeless , cardboard characters .
a perfect murder is n't a strict remake of dial m for murder , but it does borrow heavily from frederick knott 's play ( which was also the source material for hitchcock 's version , as well as a 1981 made - for - tv retelling ) .
emily hayes ( gwyneth paltrow ) is the wealthy wife of powerful wall street mover - and - shaker steven hayes ( michael douglas ) .
their marriage is n't going well -- emily resents steven 's controlling instincts , and , as a form of rebellion , she is having an affair with a penniless painter , david shaw ( viggo mortensen ) .
when steven learns of the relationship , he decides to confront david , but his approach is n't that of a typical cuckolded husband .
instead of yelling or threatening , steven offers david a proposal that 's too good to resist : for $ 500 , 000 in cash ( $ 100 , 000 before , the rest after ) , he is to break into steven 's new york apartment and kill emily .
( of course , after getting the first payment , david never bothers to ask how he 's supposed to get the rest . )
ultimately , i 'm not sure which of the three main characters we 're supposed to be sympathetic to : the cold - hearted husband , who wants his wife dead so he can get his hands on her fortune ; her mercenary lover , who is willing to do the deed for half - a - million ; or the woman , who is happily carrying on an extramarital affair .
not only are these individuals all profoundly dislikable , but they 're not interesting .
( it 's possible to make a good movie with detestable characters -- see reservoir dogs -- but there has to be something compelling about them , which , in this case , there is n't . )
steven , emily , and david are all lifted directly from the screenwriting 101 text book on stereotypes .
the actors in this film are obviously just on hand to get their paychecks .
michael douglas is playing the kind of heartless tycoon that he can do in his sleep -- he 's gordon gekko with an unfaithful wife .
gwyneth paltrow , who was recently delightful and appealing in sliding doors , is simply awful here .
she now has the dubious distinction of have starred in two of 1998 's worst thrillers ( the other being hush ) .
at least viggo mortensen ( g .
i .
jane ) has a little fun with his part , but then he usually does interesting things even in bad movies .
the thin supporting cast includes david suchet , the star of " poirot , " as a police inspector , and sarita choudhury ( kama sutra ) as emily 's best friend .
a perfect murder is a plodding production that generates almost no suspense from beginning to end .
there are n't many twists and turns in the unexpectedly linear script , which makes the ending inevitable almost from the start .
it 's surprising to see director andrew davis , the man behind the fugitive , involved in this mess
, but , like his stars , he too needs to earn a living .
it 's just that remaking hitchcock , and doing it so badly
, hardly seems to be an honorable way to go about getting the dough .
N

i 'm an avid fan of the " alien " saga , so this review is obviously a tad biased ( at least i admitted it ) .
of course , that does n't mean that i 'm gon na be giving this a four - star review or something , because " alien : resurrection , " the fourth film in the cool - as - hell series is not an absolutely amazing film , much like the first two were . however ,
it 's a very good film which never fails to entertain , and consists of yet another mutation in the style of the series .
in short , i had a good time .
" alien : resurrection " leaves off 200 years after the last one , where our heroine protagonist , ellen ripley ( sigourney weaver ) , the science fiction genre 's answer to job , had killed herself after discovering that an alien was inside her body , waiting to pop out like it did to john hurt in the first one .
of course , the last one was n't very great or anything
( i liked it , though not as much as the first two ) , and more importantly , it was n't financially successful ( a tawdry 55 million bucks ! )
.
so back we are , with ripley back as a clone , which means we get another little satirical look at cloning ( not that that 's a bad thing , but it 's becoming a cliche ) .
so she 's cloned aboard an even more futuristic - looking ship called " the auriga " by some doctors ( including the necessary bad government guy , dr .
wren , played by j .
e . freeman , as well as the little - seen dr .
gediman , played by none other than brad douriff ) , mainly because they have a version of her with the alien still inside her .
once you get past the fact that you ca n't figure out where they got her blood ( although i think it might have been from the blood samples taken by charles dance in the third one ) ,
the film 's okay .
also on board are a band of mercenary pirates , including michael wincott , ron perlman , kim flowers , raymond cruz , dominique pinon ( a jeunet sytable ) and . . . winona ryder , who plays analee call , who turns out to have a bit of a secret
( i wo n't state it , but unless you 've been shacking up with salinger for the past two years , you probably know all about it - although it 's nicely covered up ) .
there 's a bit of a non - sexual - yet - slightly - homoerotic relationship between her and ripley , but it 's never really deepened enough .
oh well .
well , as you might have guessed , the alien and its spawn escape and run around the ship .
and it pretty much does away with most of the people on the ship ( including some shocks - dan hedaya , for instance , who 's death is comical yet sad since
, well , he 's dan hedaya ) , and the remaining people ( about 7 or 8 ) are left to try and escape and stop the aliens from doing any major harm since the ship is heading quickly towards earth .
of course , the plot is all balderdash , and just an excuse for some good old " alien " -brand fun .
the real focus of the series seems to be on style , not really substance ( although there 's always a bit of it , most notably in " aliens " with the relationship between ripley and the little girl ) .
what 's interesting about the series is that each film is stylistically different in its approach .
" alien " is a claustrophobic exercise in quiet frights .
" aliens " is a wild , tense thriller .
" alien 3 " is a bleak , moody piece of semi - noir .
" alien 4 " is kind of like an off - beat french film , filled with lots of humor , and cool scares .
jean - pierre jeunet ( without his usual directing partner , marc caro ) creates a ship filled with the kind of scares films like " das boot " has , with echoes hinting at a possible threat .
the chills in the film are really cool , especially with the music , which is sometimes turned down completely for certain scenes ( there 's the most tense surgery scene since " face / off " towards the beginning ) .
and not every chill turns into a bloody mess or anything like that .
this all combined with some good old humor makes this as interesting visually and stylistically as the others .
there are even a couple scenes which just stick out afterwards as being brilliantly executed .
one is the aforementioned surgery scene .
another one takes place between call and ripley , which is just awesome .
the underwater chase scene and the ladder scene afterwards is one of the most tense , thrilling , and jaw - dropping scenes in the entire saga ( with a small allusion to jeunet 's earlier film , " delicatessen " ) .
and the way they do in the final alien is hysterically cool ( with a lovely allusion to " goldfinger " ) .
but the best scene in the entire film ( i 'm sure i 'm not the first to mention it ) takes place when ripley sees all the variations on her as they cloned her
( she has a an " 8 " tatooed on her arm ) .
it might be the most emotionally stimulating scene in the entire saga .
the screenplay by joss whedon is not a great piece of work , as it never really deapens a lot of the characters .
however , it does make us care about most of them , so that when there 's very little of them , and it looks like one or more of them may become alien chow
, we are pretty scared .
and , yeah , there are some very funny lines ( ripley :
" who do i have to fuck to get off this boat ? !
" johner : " well , i can get you off .
but not this ship .
" ) the acting is good all around , with stand - out performances from ron perlman as the male chauvenist pig johner , and leland orser ( the poor bastad in " se7en " who performed the " lust " sin ) as an anxiety - ridden wannabe woody allen who has an alien inside him .
winona ryder is good , but not amazing like she usually is ( although she meshes well with the film ) .
of course , and as usual , sigourney weaver steals the show .
playing a variation on the ripley character ( less emotional , and more rude and bitter ) , she pulls it off while still being utterly lovable .
she 's not going to get an oscar nomination
like she did for " aliens ,
" but she 's just awesome .
overall , it 's a thrilling , entertaining film which does n't really amaze like the first two , but is much more amazing than the third installment .
the style is the best part of the film , which is n't really a bad thing , but it being the best part takes away from a lot of the depth the film occasionally tries to apply .
but it 's entertaining as hell ,
and it 's definitely fit for the " alien " series .

P