Felicia's Journey
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Movie Reviews of Felicia's Journey
Movie Review: Be warned . . .
Summary: 2 Stars
As a latecomer to Atom Egoyan's oevre, I was blown away by 'Exotica' back in '94 - I was into Hal Hartley, Luis Bunuel and Peter Greenaway at the time. I tried to seek out his other stuff while globe-trotting, with little success. I found 'The Sweet Hereafter' powerful, but much more straightforward, than 'Exotica', and thus somehow less satisfying.
'Felicia's Journey' is arguably a step in the wrong direction - less obtuse than his previous works, it lacks menace, substance, passion. I am not a big fan of Bob Hoskins in the first place, and I did not find his performance convincing here.
If you want to watch something creepy but intelligent, I recommmend Todd Solonz' 'Happiness', 'Pi', or Egoyan's truly mind-blowing 'Exotica'. I would give this a wide berth, unless you are a huge Bob Hoskins fan, and/or of an extremely undiscriminating disposition.
Movie Review: Disturbing
Summary: 1 Stars
I have not read the book.I have seen some other of Egoyan's movies.
I find this movie disturbing.
Rather, I find the obsession by our society with killers and death to be disturbing and the way this movie/story panders to it the most disturbing aspect of watching it.
Egoyan seems to be particularly intrigued by the macabre and the sick. The fact that he was attracted to this movie is not surprising.
What I find more and more disturbing in our American society is our obsession with death and murder.
What is happening in Iraq is bad enough. What we see on network television about Crime Scene Investigation and all the other sick network programming that uses the common theme of Death and murder is more disturbing.
We are a very sick society. Our American society is based on Fear, the fear of Terror and our obsession and trivialization of Death and Murder, our incomprehensible schism regarding Death and Murder and Terrorism and how we think it's ok to impose out political agenda on other countries, while we profess to abhor violence?!
Like Al Quida, we are hypocritical: it's ok to kill and murder if it matches the political aims of our despotic leaders at the Pentagon and the White House: or for Network Television or because it would make a good Hollywood movie.
But we profess to be peace loving while we kill.
We wallow in this type of sick victimization of a poor innocent while we watch as voyeurs to some perverted spectacle wondering if the main character will get away with it or not.
I'm sorry to say I watched it to the end to find out.
As long as we view this type of film as entertainment, we will also have the blood of the innocents on out collective hands in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, and in the ghettos of America. And politicians like George W Bush will find a way to rationalize it in the name of freedom and God and Country. What is most sick is not that we are now torturing prison detainees in Iraq, but that we as a nation condone the fraud and lies and the corruption of our President in the name of Democracy. We buy into the lies, just as this girl bought into the lies of Bob Hoskins character in this movie.
This is why I don't care to see the trash that is most of the standard Hollywood fare these days. I don't see this movie as a complex psychological thriller. It's just plain symptomatic of our very sick society.
Movie Review: Warning: Will put you to sleep.
Summary: 1 Stars
Okay, now I'm one who loves a good story. Even if the storytelling may be a bit slow, it's all about the message the film is trying to convey to its audience. But this movie? This movie is an UNBELIEVABLE borefest. I kept waiting and waiting for this movie to pick up from its sedated state and it never did. All that happened was me falling asleep. About an hour and 20 minutes into the movie I found myself wanting to stop it, but a part of me made me finish watching. I told myself "something is bound to happen, the ending will be shocking!" But then once I realized that would never happen, I kept it running because I figured "I've gone through so much, I have to finish this, or else it will all be for nothing." Nothing about this is shocking. Even if should be remotely shocking whatsoever, that aspect of it gets lost in the fact that it is so BORING. Slow movies are great, as long as they have something entertaining in them, or build up to something. This movie had nothing to offer and one of the most dull climaxes I've ever seen. I gave it a chance, and Felicia's Journey feels more like a Wisconsin Death Trip. Avoid, unless you are an insomniac and want to go to sleep.Movie Review: Disturbing, Stupid, AVOID!!
Summary: 1 Stars
Okay let's see, a girl goes across sea to find her boyfriend, meets an older man while walking on the street, then get's in his car and let's him drive her across town after only meeting him once before, then STAY'S with him at his home and not only that she let's him take her to get an ABORTIAN so he can kill her. She obviously doesn't know he's planning to kill her, but how smart can you be in the first place to trust someone that much after only meeting them once or twice before. I'm sorry, but after the abortian that's when the movie got to disturbing and ended for me, I couldn't stand watching another minute. Not only that, but it was slow and boring. I was expecting a thriller, but instead I just ended up waisting my time. Avoid this movie, don't waist $3.Movie Review: Disgusting-leaves the viewer with a sick stomach
Summary: 1 Stars
I hated this movie. Between this role and his disgusting role in "Nixon," Bob Hoskins has officially lost all of my respect. He did a great job as an obsessed psychopath, and the movie was well done, but it's the kind of movie that does not need to be made. Extremely inappropriate and disgusting. The movie was artsie, but very slow moving. Once the plot began to unravel, I was waiting for the movie to end. The only reason why I finished it was because I was watching it for a class. This movie is the most disturbing movie that I have ever seen. I would never recommend it to anybody. It is a sickening and disgusting waste of time. The PG-13 rating just reflects mature subject matter. I give it one star only because the rating page won't allow zero.