Time Stranger

Starring:Mami Koyama, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Hideyuki Tanaka, Kaneto Shiozawa, Daisuke GÃ´ri, ShÃ´jirÃ´ Kihara, Toshiko Fujita, Nobuyo Tsuda, ShÃ´zÃ´ ÃŽzuka, Fumio Matsuoka, Kan Tokumaru, YÃ»saku Yara, Masashi Hironaka, Bin Shimada, Chiyoko Kawashima, Tomiko Suzuki, Seiko Nakano, Lisa Ortiz, Tara Jayne, Mina Sands
Director: Kunihiko Yuyama
Studio: Us Manga Corps Video
Product Type: DVD

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Great Suspense Film
Better Money spent on the ice cream man
Red Eye
Should have been better
Great action thriller

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Starring: Tina Anderson , Brian Cox , Carl Gilliard , Mary Kathleen Gordon , and Laura Johnson
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Release Date: 2006-01-10

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Veteran horror director Wes Craven lends his proven talent to the non-horror thriller Red-Eye, turning it into an above-average potboiler that makes the most of its 85 tension-packed minutes. That's a perfect running time for a movie like this, in which a resourceful heroine Lisa (Rachel McAdams, the breakout star of 2005) is trapped on a red-eye flight with creepy villain Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy, even more menacing than he was as the Scarecrow in Batman Begins) who's playing middle-man in the plot to assassinate a Homeland Security official. He's got her father pinned down by a would-be killer, using that advantage to coerce Lisa into phoning the luxury resort where she works and arranging to move the target into a pre-set position. It's a situation from which there is seemingly no escape, but of course Craven and screenwriter Carl Ellsworth find a way to milk the suspenseful dilemma for all it's worth, even managing to wedge in a few intriguing character details to enhance the fast-moving plot. It's still a B-movie, but it's tightly constructed and well-executed by Craven, whose previous films made him a perfect choice to maximize all that Red-Eye has to offer. --Jeff Shannon

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Great Suspense Film.......2007-06-20

Red Eye is one of my favorite films, truly something you can watch over and over again. Very original, kudos to Wes Craven. After seeing this film, combined with her other work, Rachel mcAdams has become one of my favorite actresses.

Better Money spent on the ice cream man.......2007-06-19

It's summer, well almost, so instead of shelling out a few hard earned dollars for this atrocious film, get an ice cream cone and enjoy it, as you will tremendously more than this B-Movie thriller. I remember seeing Blockbuster littered with the Red Eye boxes when it first came out. I mean it was a pluthera all over the place, you couldn't escape the jaded hand image on the box, it would like follow your every look around the store. I should have rented it instead of purchasing it, a fool and his money should never have been brought together from jumpstreet.

Brian Cox is always a delight. I do follow his work, and he was superb in Running with Scissors and L.I.E., however he is very bland and boring in his role as Rachel's father. In fact in the scenes near the end when she plows her car through the front door area (go ahead and recall it), I almost for a minute, thought he was in on it. It seemed like his role in this was just a leasurily stroll through Central during an idle Sunday.

Wes Craven, I am sure, has some die hard followers, and even if the film sinks lower than that vile nastiness in between the rails at the 42nd street NR stop, they will hail his work as a Modern Marvel.

Clearly not the case with Red Eye. It is suppoosed to be a thriller and I would assume sort of scary, edge of your seat kind of stuff. No? Believe me, its not scary, its not suspensful, and they do not make it believable in the least. I watched it with my mother, who I bring over a flick for once in awhile, and although she was losing interest after the first 40 minutes or so, I really tried to get into it. Sadly I could not. It was "NOT" a good suspense thriller. It was an "alright" suspense/thriller. It had it's moments, the lipstick on the bathroom mirror was very predictable, albeit decent. Everything else seemed rushed, unrehearsed and generic. I mean the girl is crying and in desperation and hysterics almost and people are RIGHT UP CLOSE NEXT TO THEM in those non roomy airline seats, and no one catches an eyesoar or in earshot of whats going on. Poorly crafted.

The biggest criticism of all, is the very key, important dialouge which brings about the films energy when Cilian Murphy tells Rachel who he really is and what he needs her to do. It was just not belivable to this reviewer. In fact, in acting classes as an older teenager in Manhattan, there were more emotions and responses from tense scenes in our Improv class, than these two really had in their on screen chemistry, which was not that Four or Five star.

Brian Cox was bland, Wes Craven is just bored and throws out his acerebral films every once in a while to let us know he isn't buried six feet under yet, which, by all relative standards, is where this film deserves to be placed.

Not worth a bite, so dig into your snowcone.

Red Eye.......2007-06-17

Definitely an awesome movie. I would recommend it to any and everyone!

Should have been better.......2007-06-04

If the lead villian didn't look like Jackson Brown, this may have been more realiatic. In the chase scenes, I kept asking myself "Who would be afraid of this guy?" He looks like a total wuss. This guy would be better of playing a part where he is tring to get revenge from the people who stole his lunch money in middle school, because that is about how believable he looks.
The film overall was not bad. One may have wished for a better ending, but that seems like the trend for movies from this era

Great action thriller.......2007-06-01

Absolutely loved this film in the theater, and had to buy it for my
collection. Wes Craven at his best. Rachel Adams and Cillian Murphy work
so well together.
Can be watched over and over again..

Average customer rating:

Great Suspense Film
Better Money spent on the ice cream man
Red Eye
Should have been better
Great action thriller

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Starring: Tina Anderson , Brian Cox , Carl Gilliard , Mary Kathleen Gordon , and Laura Johnson
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Release Date: 2006-01-10

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Customer Reviews:

Great Suspense Film.......2007-06-20

Better Money spent on the ice cream man.......2007-06-19

Red Eye.......2007-06-17

Definitely an awesome movie. I would recommend it to any and everyone!

Should have been better.......2007-06-04

Great action thriller.......2007-06-01

Absolutely loved this film in the theater, and had to buy it for my
collection. Wes Craven at his best. Rachel Adams and Cillian Murphy work
so well together.
Can be watched over and over again..

Average customer rating:

Truly excellent on many levels.
Quiet Tone Poem in Muskogee

Convicted
Starring: Tim Daly , Connie Nelson , Connie Nielsen , Kelly Preston , and Aidan Quinn
Director: Bille August
Manufacturer: First Look Pictures
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ASIN: B000B6H1YG
Release Date: 2005-11-01

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Charlotte Cory (Connie Nielsen) is a convicted murderer spending her final days on Death Row. Her hopes and dreams are as lifeless as the grey walls that imprison her, until the letters of a stranger, Frank Nitzche (Aiden Quinn), awakens passion in her she thought had died long ago. While her attorney (Kelly Preston) desperately tries to appeal the verdict, Frank realizes he has fallen in love with Charlotte, and discovers that there are untold secrets behind the tragic circumstances of her imprisonment. Her life is in his hands as Frank races to find the truth that can save Charlotte before it's too late.

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Truly excellent on many levels........2006-08-14

The performances are outstanding and the chemistry does sizzle -- but also wonderful are the scenes with the blind. There were haunting moments, poetic moments. The story itself is rather beside the point, but still interesting. This film is all about the visuals, the acting, the mood. An unexpected delight that I saw on Lifetime, of all places, this weekend. Now I want to buy it for friends.

Quiet Tone Poem in Muskogee.......2005-11-09

Back in 1984, the hit at the Canne Film Festival was another quiet and cerebral film called Paris, Texas - directed by the German director Wim Wenders (but that was then, and this is now). Here, we get the Danish director Billy August creating a hypnotic imaging of desolate Oklahoma small towns, an innocent woman on death row, and the various players around her story in the last days leading up to her execution. As always, Aidan Quinn is just right for his part as a complex lawyer turned tabloid huckster and alcoholic, who finally finds redemption in the last motel on the rain slick streets. But the real standout here is the always underrated Connie Nielsen, who smolders in this performance and the chemistry between her and Quinn is what great movies (and their moments) are made of. I guess in this age of mindless reality TV, films of this quiet beauty, intelligence, and grace are just too slow, pondering, and challenging for today's audiences. Too bad - this film is a keeper and a real gem!

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Rachel McAdams gets seated next to the passenger from Hell

Red Eye (UMD Mini For PSP)
Starring: Jack Scalia , Brian Cox , Cillian Murphy , Rachel McAdams , and Colby Donaldson
Director: Wes Craven
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Video
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ASIN: B000CCW2TI
Release Date: 2006-01-10

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Rachel McAdams gets seated next to the passenger from Hell.......2006-05-14

"Red Eye" is a movie that puts most of its cards on the table. At the start we see a wallet with a pair of initials on it being stolen. We also see a large metal container being smuggled into the United States. Two points determine the pathof a line and we know that these two events are connected. Actually if you assume that everything you see and hear in this 2005 thriller has something to do with what is going on. If Carl Ellsworth (who wrote the "Halloween" episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") has somebody on the airplane suddenly talk about a missing pen, then that would be a CLUE, and attention must be paid. That does not mean that director Wes Craven ("Scream/2/3") will not play with your expectations in an effort to keep things honest, but for the most part you can see how everything is set up and red herrings are pretty nonexistent. The result is more a question of anticipation than predictability and it was not until the big finish that I actually got to the point where I was saying (out loud in fact) that this could not be the "end" because "X" had not happened yet, which is pretty good for a thriller.

The genesis for this film was apparently the simple idea of what happens if you get on an airplane and end up being seated next to the passenger from Hell. At this point many of you will be thinking back to "Planes, Trains & Automobiles," but this film is something quite different because it takes place in a world where apparently nothing is coincidence. Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams, who suddenly appears to be in every other movie being made) is a hotel desk manager for a swank hotel in Miami, who is heading home from Dallas after attending her grandmother's funeral. Her flight is delayed and she has occasion to meet Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy) more than once before she gets on the flight and discovers they are seatmates. He wants to know if she is stalking him and what proves to be a deadly game begins in earnest.

I have to admit that when I watched this DVD I had managed to forget anything I might have heard or read about "Red Eye." Obviously Lisa is the heroine and Jackson is the villain (after this and "Batman Begins," Murphy is going to have to make an earnest effort to avoid being typecast in such roles). But since all the dots connect in this film it has to have something to do with Charles Keefe (Jack Scalia), the new head of Homeland Security who said some rather stupid things on television for someone whose position has to do with defense and not offense when it comes to terrorists. Before she gets on the plane Lisa is juggling cell phone calls from her father (Brian Cox) and her nervous assistant, Cynthia (Jayma Mays), and the film puts more of its cards in position on the table. But there is a hole card, which is revealed when Lisa has to change her blouse (talk about bait and switch).

The best thing this film has going for it is Rachel McAdams. In case you did not notice, 2005 was a very good year for the actress. After being the blonde Queen Bee in "Mean Girls" back in 2004, she went back to dark hair and did "The Notebook." Then in 2005 she made "Red Eye" in between "Wedding Crashers" and "The Family Stone." She may well be the best thing in all three of those films, but this is the one where she has to do the most heavy lifting. Her character is smart, which only makes her more attractive as far as I am concerned, and despite her vulnerability we do not believe that she will be a victim. There are some moments where both the heroine and the villain are conveniently stupid (when you get somebody down, go all in and finish them off: everybody in my family knows this), but there are enough smart moments and we are rooting for Lisa, so such slights can be easily forgiven.

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Time Stranger
Starring: Mami Koyama , Hirotaka Suzuoki , Hideyuki Tanaka , Kaneto Shiozawa , and Daisuke Gôri
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You Failed Again

The Man Behind the Scissors
Starring: Etsushi Toyokawa , and Kumiko Aso
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ASIN: B000ASATN0
Release Date: 2005-11-29

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You Failed Again.......2006-02-11

There are many types of people in the world. Some make you feel comfortable while others make your skin crawl. Some fill you with energy while others suck it from you like a vampire. In Hasami Otoko, Toyokawa Etsushi's character Yasunaga denotes pure terror.

A cool collected killer, Yasunaga hones the blades of pairs of scissors until they are razor sharp. He desires to make the perfect kill. To kill with one clean pierce with no mess and to leave his victim a pristine corpse. Yasunaga is not a rapist or a mutilator; he is only a killer searching for the perfect kill. However, he will not just kill any girl. The girls he kills must be not only attractive, but strong in their studies as well. With such high criteria, it is obvious that finding appropriate victims is not that easy, so Yasunaga enlists the help of Chika, a pretty, but downtrodden woman who not only searches for Yasunaga's victims at her job, but who also accompanies Yasunaga when he kills. Although she thinks it is horrific, Chika is so subservient to Yasunaga that she would probably kill herself if he asked her to. In fact it seems she is a bit jealous of the murdered girls because Yasunaga seems to deem them worthy of being killed while he lets her live.

One night, after a day of scouting out Yasunaga's next victim, Yasunaga and Chika attempt to learn more about the area in which the intended victim lives. However, instead of garnering new information, they find her dead with a pair of scissors protruding from her throat. It seems someone else wanted to murder the girl and pass it off as if the Scissor Man had done it instead. With this knowledge, Yasunaga and Chika begin their own search for their intended murder victim's killer.

Filmed by the same director who created Evil Dead Trap and Angel Guts, Scissor Man is a relatively bloodless film for one about a serial murderer. Also, the film is a bit campy. The dialogues between the detectives will almost make one cringe with their Scooby Doo-esque findings of clues and summarizations of who perpetrated the crime. However, despite this, there are some parts that shine. While Toyokawa Etsushi's acting is quite wooden, his character gives the semblance of a man who although calm and collected could burst into violence at any moment. Some scenes are almost painful to watch because one can almost feel the violence emanating from his being. Also Aso Kumiko does a good job portraying a woman so broken by hardships that she is willing to do anything for a man because there is some chance that he might show some affection for her. Obsessed with death and dieing, Chika attempts suicide several times in the film by doing such things as self-asphyxiation and poisoning herself only to be reminded by Yasunaga that she failed again. Quite strong moments for a relatively weak film, but they are really not enough to make one watch this film again.

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