Welcome back to another edition of Adam's Reviews!! **queue in intro music**
Tonight's movie review is the thriller No Way Out (1987) starring the likeable Costner as Tom Farrell, navy officer who gets posted at the Pentagon and is working for the Secretary of Defence Brice played by the legend himself Gene Hackman. Farrell soon starts a love affair with mysterious Susan Atwell played by Sean Young aka Finkle for you Ace Ventura fans. What Farrell soon finds out is that Atwell is also the mistress of Brice and when Brice finds out that Atwell is seeing someone behind his back (not know its Farrell) he accidently murders her. What happens next is a cover up and a witch hunt to find the killer who is supposedly believed to be a KGB mole. The whole KGB Russian stuff - why?? Anyways, Farrell has plays around the clock to play the hunter even though he is the prey while trying to figure out how to clear his name. An interesting thriller with an interesting twist at the end however the story to me along with some of the acting wasn't the best. Firstly its Hackman, he just changes his character tone from being all mighty at the beginning to a softy in the middle and in the end somewhere got the cajunes to set up a diabolical story - it didn't mesh up. And the dynamic between Hackman and Will Patton's character Pritchard was weird as - it's like Mr. Burns and Smithers from The Simpsons and in the story literally the latter loves the former, but the former is too powerful and naive to ever notice. Another weird part was the introduction of the KGB, maybe it's the 80s therefore it's the Cold War element, but bringing up this sub plot which really becomes the main plot didn't fit with the tone of the film. The cool part of the flick is when Costner runs around trying to eliminate evidence before anyone finds out while also trying to hide away from key eye witnesses. But what I didn't understand is if this bloke is who he is, how on earth did he get to be Pritchard's mate during their tour and schooling? Didn't add up. Overall, there are few pleasant twists, particularly the very end however it's not a great movie by any means but still enjoyable - 6/10.
Tonight's movie review is the thriller No Way Out (1987) starring the likeable Costner as Tom Farrell, navy officer who gets posted at the Pentagon and is working for the Secretary of Defence Brice played by the legend himself Gene Hackman. Farrell soon starts a love affair with mysterious Susan Atwell played by Sean Young aka Finkle for you Ace Ventura fans. What Farrell soon finds out is that Atwell is also the mistress of Brice and when Brice finds out that Atwell is seeing someone behind his back (not know its Farrell) he accidently murders her. What happens next is a cover up and a witch hunt to find the killer who is supposedly believed to be a KGB mole. The whole KGB Russian stuff - why?? Anyways, Farrell has plays around the clock to play the hunter even though he is the prey while trying to figure out how to clear his name. An interesting thriller with an interesting twist at the end however the story to me along with some of the acting wasn't the best. Firstly its Hackman, he just changes his character tone from being all mighty at the beginning to a softy in the middle and in the end somewhere got the cajunes to set up a diabolical story - it didn't mesh up. And the dynamic between Hackman and Will Patton's character Pritchard was weird as - it's like Mr. Burns and Smithers from The Simpsons and in the story literally the latter loves the former, but the former is too powerful and naive to ever notice. Another weird part was the introduction of the KGB, maybe it's the 80s therefore it's the Cold War element, but bringing up this sub plot which really becomes the main plot didn't fit with the tone of the film. The cool part of the flick is when Costner runs around trying to eliminate evidence before anyone finds out while also trying to hide away from key eye witnesses. But what I didn't understand is if this bloke is who he is, how on earth did he get to be Pritchard's mate during their tour and schooling? Didn't add up. Overall, there are few pleasant twists, particularly the very end however it's not a great movie by any means but still enjoyable - 6/10.