| Give it a 10 for Lake Tahoe |
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| written by funnytoo |
October 15, 2012 - 11:58 AM PDT |
& a 5 for the move. Unfortunately, the whole film is given away by the plot summary and truly nothing is left to the imagination. See it for the scenery, the handsome Goran and if you like Tilda, I guess it's on your list already anyway. She has perfected that tragically miserable persona & in this one she's at her best. As to the beautiful Lake, here is your chance to see what it is so famous for: clear enough to see a dead body, don't know at what depth, but still neat.
Perhaps noteworthy is the lovely Corvette and an extremely awkward gay sex scene, but, perhaps not. |
| crap |
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| written by wes2666 |
September 29, 2004 - 9:14 PM PDT |
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2 out of 4 members found this review helpful
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| A paint-by-numbers thriller whose characters all behave absurdly (both practically and emotionally) in order to advance the plot. If you try to trace motivations a step beyond what we see on screen, they fall apart completely. The best conceit of the film, setting a thriller on the cusp of a teen's coming out, is barely addressed and just serves to construct a really lame MacGuffin. Not badly acted but Swinton and company were working from poor material. Also, the film is full of distracting and pretentious water metaphors that go nowhere. |
| I always hold my nose when I dive off |
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| written by RRappuhn |
August 4, 2004 - 1:30 PM PDT |
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2 out of 3 members found this review helpful
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the deep end...
I am ambivalent about this movie.
To be sure, Tilda Swinton is marvelous, but excepting Goran Visnjic and his partner in crime, I have not a bit of interest in any of the other characters...
Examined from, perhaps a sick sort of codependent/nuerotic mother/son relationship, I cannot fathom why she would go to the trouble she did for the petulant/know it all son ( I found him repugnant and completely unwatchable ); hell, he does not know she is doing these things for him and
he, seems to me, seeing Goran and her together, thinks that she is 'cheating' on the father.
The entire matter, seems to me again, easily averted by going to the police admitting connections and letting the thing just run its course, so maybe the brat does not get the scholarship and who really cares if the SPOILER.....
poor kid had a starring role in a film of sodomy, for all I know, the kid knew it was being filmed...but perhaps this is the premise of these types of plots, fear of self manufactured consequences (although she did say something about the father not being able to understand...)
ah hell, it is probably worth seeing for her performance alone, if you do not mind watching a codependent in action...and each time I think about that pychosis, I wonder if the film should be taken as some horrible parable of nonresponsibility...or neurotic responsibility
open to change my mind though...
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