Feeling Minnesota
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Movie Reviews of Feeling Minnesota
Movie Review: AWESOME MOVIE
Summary: 4 Stars
I LOVE THIS MOVIE, THE CHARACTERS ARE GREAT, IT'S FUNNY, MOVING, DARK AND ADVENTEROUS ALL AT THE SAME TIME...I HAVE WATCHED IT AT LEAST THREE TIMES SINCE I PURCHASED IT, I LOVE IT AND RECOMMEND IT TO EVERYONE.Movie Review: Twists and Turns
Summary: 4 Stars
It starts off a little slow but about 3/4 of the way through it gets really interesting.Good preformances.. but who taught Cameron Diaz how to drink a beer?
Movie Review: Nickel & Diming
Summary: 3 Stars
I had a hard time grasping how a group of people is stealing (trading/swapping/owning) huge amounts of money from each other, yet individually looked, talked, acted, dressed, and lived like folks far below the poverty level.Freddie (Cameron Diaz) is being forced to marry Sam Clayton (Vincent d'Onofrio) by Red (Delroy Lindo). For big, bad Red, it is a tidy transaction. Freddie supposedly stole ten thousand from him, and Red owes this amount to Sam. The film opens with reluctant Freddie in all her wedding finery racing madly down a dirt road in an ugly midwestern milieu chased by a muscle car filled with yowling raging men. Freddie loses and is perforce married to Sam (resplendent in a baby blue tuxedo and ruffled shirt) in an outdoor wedding held in the backyard of a very modest home. Enter Jjaks (unbeloved brother of Sam, Keanu Reeves), a loser from childhood days who is returning from a stint in the slammer. Freddie spots him after the nuptials, and for reasons best known to herself, looks to Jjaks as her salvation. He's supposedly going to get her out of the marriage and find the money that Sam has hidden. After a seduction of Jjaks subtle as a sledgehammer, they take off. The chase is on. The Clayton brothers steal cars like most people change their socks, so neither brother was ever short of transportation. After violent mayhem, dead bodies, and spectacular chase scenes, Freddie & Jjaks make their separate ways out of Minnesota and reunite (sorta).
"Feeling Minnesota" spared nothing in the talent department. Along with the principals, Tuesday Weld and Courtney Love had small roles as respectively, Mom Clayton and a dippy waitress. Special mention must go to Vincent d'Onofrio as unlovable, clumsy, hysterical Sam. He has a physical knack of stealing almost every scene he is in. Cameron Diaz gave the picture what little centeredness it had with her wanton, vulnerable, compelling performance as Freddy. Delroy Lindo as Red makes his character a tinderbox of menace and macho combined with heavy-handed good humor. I am always amazed at Keanu Reeves who can mumble his way through a stone faced performance; then smile once and collect big bucks and swarms of fans. He sticks to this winning combination in "Feeling Minnesota."
While overall enjoyable and with some great comic moments, the film teeters between dark comedy and wincing brutality. The viewer has a difficult time reconciling the entire experience. Unless you are a diehard Keanu Reeves fan, I think a rental will be enough.
-sweetmolly-Amazon Reviewer
Movie Review: Misleading package, meandering plot
Summary: 2 Stars
The back of the case for this DVD starts with the following phrase: "Brotherly love takes a beating in this wickedly funny romance..." Given this description and the sunshine-filled, happy photos on case, I was expecting this movie to be a relatively tame romantic comedy. They sure fooled me! This movie is a violent drama with little content that I considered to be remotely comedic.
That isn't to say I'm rating the movie poorly because of the violence. I do enjoy watching that sort of thing from time to time, but the story behind this film seems to be poorly contrived. It seemed to never end. The characters are played by a number of good actors, and they each perform their roles well, but even they can't fully make up for a mediocre script.
Watch this movie if you want. It isn't the worst movie I've ever seen, but there are plenty of better ones. Just don't judge it by the cover like I did. You'll be in for a pretty big surprise if you do.
Movie Review: Feeling ill after wasting time with this movie
Summary: 1 Stars
Because my wife & I grew up in Minnesota and we have enjoyed some of actors we thought this could be interesting. WRONG! It is dull, vain, profane, worthless way to spend 99 minutes. After the 1st 5 minutes we considered turning it off, but continued to look for some comdedy or something that might bring back fond or funny memories of life in Minnestoa. That was our second mistake, right behind renting this in the 1st place! While some of the acting was OK, it lacked plot & seemed like an excuse for good actors to use bad language and act stupid. There is nothing here that remotely resembles life in MN other than some of the scenery. In some ways it reminded me of a really bad Tom & Jerry cartoon with the characters bashing each other for no reason and with no effects. Actally saying that is probably unfair to T & J cartoons as they have more plot & humor. After it was over, I felt nausated that we had wasted almost 2 hours of time on this trash. Our advice - don't make the same mistake watching this polluted video mess!