5ive Days to Midnight

Starring:Timothy Hutton, Randy Quaid, Kari Matchett, Hamish Linklater, Angus Macfadyen, Gage Golightly, Nicole de Boer, David McIlwraith, Giancarlo Esposito, Nick Allen (II), Christine Anton, Daniel Bacon, Blake Banbury, Lisa Ann Beley, Paul Bittante, Lou Bollo, Laurie Brunetti, Bruce Clark (IV), Chilton Crane, Samantha Crew
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Studio: Lions Gate
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Product Description
J.T. Neumeyer, a brilliant physics professor, receives a police file from the future with explicit detail of a gruesome murder-his own. Complete with photos and a list of suspects, the file indicates that the murder will take place in five days. When real-life events begin to mirror those in the report, the skeptical J.T. realizes the file is real and time is quickly running out. He has only days to solve the mystery of his own murder...and hopefully change his destiny.

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Running Time 255 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

Average customer rating:

Awesome Sci-Fi, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, etc.
Great movie but watch out for some details
A little drawn out, but hey, it's a miniseries
Dark Allegory
Worth watching.

5ive Days to Midnight
Starring: Timothy Hutton , Randy Quaid , Kari Matchett , Hamish Linklater , and Angus Macfadyen
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0002S94BQ
Release Date: 2004-10-12

Product Description

J.T. Neumeyer, a brilliant physics professor, receives a police file from the future with explicit detail of a gruesome murder-his own. Complete with photos and a list of suspects, the file indicates that the murder will take place in five days. When real-life events begin to mirror those in the report, the skeptical J.T. realizes the file is real and time is quickly running out. He has only days to solve the mystery of his own murder...and hopefully change his destiny.

System Requirements:

Running Time 255 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

Customer Reviews:

Awesome Sci-Fi, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, etc........2006-08-16

This was quite a find! Timothy Hutton plays Professor J.T. Neumeyer, a physicist who comes across a mysterious case bearing his name, and containing files of an unsolved murder investigation - his murder - which occurred (will occur) five days in the future.

At first he believes it to be a crude hoax. However, certain elements of the murder, as detailed in the files, begin falling into place that suggest something more than just mere coincidence. As he investigates further, Neumeyer enlists the help of the homicide detective (Randy Quaid) who investigated (will investigate) his murder. The biggest clue is the suspect list, which includes his girlfriend, brother-in-law, an eccentric graduate student, and an unknown man.

The series is wonderfully crafted and keeps you guessing as to who the murderer was (will be). The filmmakers successfully establish motives and/or raise doubts about the intentions of the suspects. In a way, it is somewhat similar to Minority Report in the sense of trying to unravel and prevent a murder which hasn't happened yet.

Overall, this was a great mini-series. Highly recommended for fans of the genre(s).

Great movie but watch out for some details.......2006-04-01

This movie is good, but I sort of agree with the former review. It lasts too long. You'd better watch it by parts as it was meant originally. You might not like this one if you're from the ones who need many explanations in the movies (as I do very often). However, those missing explanations will not keep you from understanding the movie's plot. I started a discussion forum so that people can guess how they would've filled those holes.
Finally, the movie's start is nothing great by itself. Anyone who likes fantasy and thrillers might have watched similar starings as in this movie. So the filmmakers added a lot of sci-fi effects, cheap but funny ones. The moved the camera in slow motion in some scenes, in others they show a lot of weird (or artistic) scenes behind the characters like mathematical symbols, nothing really creative but pretty. But the movie continues it gets more and more interesting.....otherwise I wouldn't have stayed for 4 or 5 hours!

A little drawn out, but hey, it's a miniseries.......2006-03-27

I'll keep this review brief, unlike the film. I think I really would have enjoyed this as a television miniseries. As a DVD, it kind of just drags on. The plot was engaging, if a little predictable. The performances were good, if not stellar. The subplots were just a tad underdeveloped, and Nicole DeBoer's character seemed almost extraneous for such a talented actress. Do I recommend it? Yes, not a bad way to spend the weekend. Would I pass up something else to watch it? Probably not.

Dark Allegory.......2005-09-17

5IVE DAYS TO MIDNIGHT is one of my favorite TV miniseries. Like ROOTS or HOLOCAUST it is best seen on TV, with the days spread apart, so that you can build up some excitement about seeing the next part, but on DVD you can kind of glom everything together; indeed you don't even have to watch the show in order--*though I would highly advise it.* If you don't, the story is too confusing.

On SciFi you'd be watching "Monday's" episode on a Monday; it was cleverly done and you couldn't wait till Tuesday! Tim Hutton isn't my favorite actor, but he did a fine job in this as the doomed professor. And fun to see him with Kari Matchett as the two co-stars of NERO WOLFE are matchless together. Watching Hutton break into the briefcase and find his obituary was chilling and you wanted to think that there must be some mistake, some loophole, some way in which he could survive the next five days. I was thinking, well, he has the same name as his daughter (I mean the same initials, her name is Jesse) maybe the daughter is the one who is going to die? She was only ten or so, but because the story is all about time travel it was easy to think, maybe she grew up and became a professor like her dad? And that is whom the briefcase was addressed to! The one in the car from PULP FICTION! The show also references the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, which also occurred ten years prior to the events of 5IVE DAYS TO MIDNIGHT, making you think a little bit, your restless brain searching for some solution, some tie up, of history's loose threads.

In a way the briefcase reminded me of the famous attache case in PULP FICTION, said to contain someone's soul-remember that? Ten years ago, so right around the birth of little Jesse? Lovely Nicole De Boer is in the movie too, from CUBE, and STAR TREK ENTERPRISE, she's a regular SciFi channel regular. You may not know who she is from her name, but once you see her face it's an assurance that the quality science fiction product you are watching was filmed in Canada.

Randy Quaid is pretty good, although I found myself wondering why the producers couldn't have found someone who mumbled less. I could barely make out what he was saying half the time as "Irwin" launched into one topic after another. He was pretty much the most important character in the story, too, as the man charged with figuring out the solution to the homicide. If you've seen the classic noir thriller D.O.A., with Edmond O'Brien, you've already anticipated much of what is interesting about this miniseries. Remade later in the 1980s with Dennis Quaid, Randy's brother, as the dead man walking, D.O.A. similarly opened with a man reading his own death sentence.

Worth watching........2005-06-20

I've just watched this in the UK where it was shown on 2 nights and totalled 4 hours. I don't know if it was cut at all, or maybe in the US with more commercials, it would last 5 hours. I have been a fan of Timothy Hutton for 20 years and he is the reason I began watching it, but thought it was a well-paced and interesting thriller. Yes, the ending was a bit cheesy and I still want to know who would have been JT's original murderer - and why, but otherwise thoroughly enjoyed it. I particularly liked the fact that the time-travel aspect was wholly incidental - although like most, I guessed who sent the briefcase - and it was the thriller element that came to the fore.

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