Blue Sky
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Movie Reviews of Blue Sky
Movie Review: Tennessee Williams meets Oliver Stone
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie is bizarre and out of whack, because it tries to fit a fascinating, Tennessee Williams-style character study into a tired, cliched paranoid conspiracy story. But the movie is worth watching for its first half, when the focus is on the sexy, needy and dysfunctional marriage between the stolid, ambitious military engineer played by Tommy Lee Jones, and his attention-getting, Marilyn Monroe-like wife, played by Jessica Lange.
Both Jones and Lange are excellent. Their characters have many responsibilities: their children, their reputations at the military base, the protection of the Free World. But the actors convince you that they would throw all of that over, temporarily, for each others' hot love. But once you understand that, the filmmakers insert these great characters into a predictable, hackneyed plot that draws on "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Silkwood" and the entirity of Oliver Stone's career.
The hinge for all this is a very unwise sexual encounter between Lange's character and Jones' Evil Boss. The Evil Boss, played by Powers Boothe, is a real Snidely Whiplash. From the first moment you see him, you know he's just a dastardly fellow without a conscience. Boo! Hiss! By having sex with this Bad Man, and then believing another obvious lie he tells her, Lange unwittingly aids in the coverup of a nuclear accident, which she then must go to preposterous lengths to expose in order to save her husband from having his mind stolen from him by the Evil Boss.
Some have wondered why this movie sat on the shelf for several years before being released, given that it won Lange an Academy Award. The answer's obvious; the plot is an embarrassing joke. But we should be glad it got released. Lange's performance is stunning, and Jones' is not far behind her. It's hard work to suspend disbelief through this story's many dumb moments (do you really think a lifelong army brat would pull the pin on a grenade and then casually toss it to her boyfriend?), but it's worth trying to, just to appreciate Jones and Lange's acting.
Movie Review: Unconditional love
Summary: 3 Stars
Jessica Lange's character is a glamourous mentally fragile woman living a fantasy of what she had hoped her life would be. Tommy Lee Jones'character plays her faithful husband and is so obviously passionately in love with her with no conditions. With divorce on the uprise, it is a story of "for better or worse, richer or poorer". He shows her unconditional love that I am sure would be inconceivable for most men or women. The children, although greatly affected by her antics also remain faithful to her and the family. I gave it a 3-star rating only because time is so precious that we do have to pick and choose what we spend time doing or watching, but the moral of the story I would give a 5-star rating.Movie Review: Superb Acting, Flawed Script
Summary: 3 Stars
Blue Sky has its basis in fact: the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty limited testing to those underground. Within this historical moment, Tommy Lee Jones plays Hank Marshall, an Army nuclear engineer, is wife Carly played flawlessly by Jessica Lange. The plot is predictable, its underlying emotion typical Hollywood melodrama. But you almost forget this as Jones and Lange breathe life into this movie.Movie Review: it's all about jessica
Summary: 3 Stars
the movie: bleh. Jessica Lange: amazing. She manages to portray the complexity of her character, Carly, so that the viewer can like and root for her despite her huge weaknesses as a person. Tommy Lee Jones is wonderful too, and their chemistry is fab. You "get" this couple's unbreakable bond even if you would not want to be in a relationship like theirs.Movie Review: floozy & boozy jessica gets her golden boy
Summary: 2 Stars
jessica lange won an oscar for this, proof positive that some years are so bereft of strong performances, they HAVE to give it to somebody. apart from that, this is a silly exercise in anti-government paranoia, with a wasted tommy lee jones and not much else.