The best thing about Five Fingers is that you know within minutes that pretty boy Ryan Phillippe, (playing a kidnapped Dutch do-gooder, or possibly terrorist), is going to lose, count 'em, five fingers. And that's worth watching, right?
Yessir, seeing self-righteous political activists lose appendages is right up there with watching schoolgirl full contact rugby. Especially self-righteous political activists with appalling Dutch accents.
The film starts with Phillippes character (it was a while ago, I forget the name) and his older mate (played by Colm Meanie, or whatever the spelling is), getting kidnapped in Morocco by some terrorists and being accused by them of being a spy. "No no", cries Dutchie, "I'm on your side." "Oh yeah? Prove it! And check out these great secaturs and rusty hacksaw blades."
What follows is a painful interrogation (largely due to the accent!) between Phillippe and Laurence Fishburne's character.
This isn't a bad film, but it's not great. Definitely better than Matrix Reloaded, but not as good as Cliffhanger.
Hey Nick, how about a review of Vanilla Sky? Definitely makes it onto the MT scale:
ReplyDeleteTom Cruise
+
The Matrix
-
the action
+
The Sixth Sense
-
the suspense
=
Vanilla Sky.
That probably gives it away, but by the end you don't care anyway.
On the plus side it does have Penelope Cruz topless, so it's not all bad.