Judgment Night
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Movie Reviews of Judgment Night
Movie Review: Top Watch
Summary: 4 Stars
Great watch, plenty of humour also, so not a boring one. Awesome story line as well.Movie Review: Judgment Night...A Guilty Pleasure
Summary: 3 Stars
Plot: A group of four friends decide to take a shortcut through a ghetto on their way to a boxing game and end up witnessing the execution of a man by a ruthless gangster and his cronies after having wrecked their van. The rest of the film follows them as they are chased through the wasteland of a urban slum.
Pros: Denis Leary is the main thing that makes this movie worth watching. His character as a psychopathic gangster barking orders and spitting vulgarities contains a great amount of entertainment value. The action, although fairly unrealistic, keeps the movie running at a fast pace and never leaves the viewer bored.
Cons:The plot is fairly simple and the movie is skin deep as far as meaning is concerned, relying mostly on pure action, testosterone, and heroic feats. The characters are one-dimensional and with noncomplex personalities, so anyone who is expecting a movie with the sort of social commentary, outstanding performances, and incredible dialogue found in movies by directors such as Tarantino and Scorcese won't find anything but cheap thrills here. "Judgment Night" was too unrealistic and not "gritty" enough for my tastes. I found it ludicrous when the character played by Cuba Gooding Jr. decided to be some type of heroic cowboy and attempt to take out singlehandedly two hardcore and streetwise hoodlums who had lived their entire lives hustling on the streets and in prison. Furthermore, the final standoff between the gang leader and Emilio Estevez's character was a bit farfetched. I hardly think some upper middle class suburbanite without martial arts training would be able to beat a prison and street hardened hood in a fist fight. Actually, I found it hard to believe that a gangster would bother himself by chasing down a group of yuppies through a ghetto wasteland, risking his own life as well as those of his cronies, when he could just as easily gone to their houses after having found Estevez's characters driver's license in his wallet.
All in all, "Judment Night" is certainly worth watching, just don't take it too seriously.
Movie Review: DECENT SUSPENSEFUL THRILLER
Summary: 3 Stars
Don't watch this one with real high expectations and you won't be disappointed. The roles are all pretty much two dimensional but still its kind of a fun ride.Four suburnanite buddies travel into the city to attend a boxing match. They make the trip in an expensive RV that one of the buddies, a car salesmen, has "borrowed" off the lot. Fighting traffic they try and take a different route and end up lost in a very bad part of town.
Okay, stereotype alert. This part of town seems totally abandoned. Newspapers blow down the streets like tumbleweeds in an old western. Unfortunately they are in the wrong place at the wrong time. They witness a gangland slaying and the gang also sees them.
The four crash the RV and now have to flee on foot from the gang. The gang leader is played well over the top by fast talking Dennis Leary. Not the role I think he's best at but he does a decent job.
Emilio Estevez leads the ones who are on the run through this rugged part of town. From there on it's a cat and mouse game as the friends are persued relentlessly.
As you can guess, the friends have to finally make a stand and fight back for their lives.
As said, the movie is pretty predictable but still fun. Full of cliches but not bad.
Not much in the way of DVD extras but a good transfer.
Movie Review: 3 Stars
This is one of those movies that someone has in their movie collections, which a) you've never heard of, and b) you don't really have any interest in seeing. I'll watch anything at least once, and having seen Emilio Estevez in Loaded Weapon, thinking he had a little boy lost quality about him, I figured what the hell.What was most disappointing about this movie was that the various chase scenes between the good guys and the bad guys never seemed to result in anything. The good guys (Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Stephen Dorff & the other guy) were always far away from the bad guys (including the Christian Slater looking Denis Leary, and the guy from The Mask), or they come close, but more often than not, nothing happens. The only time they come close is when they're on the roof, and climbing across the ladder - the guy's name who I forget comes too damn close.
With all of the missing each other stuff, I was expecting a very anti-climatic ending. I was quite surprised at the face off between Emilio Estevez and Denis Leary. It certainly makes up for the rest of the film, and is edge-of-your-seat gripping stuff!
Otherwise, a fairly average movie.
Movie Review: Not Bad!
Summary: 3 Stars
Not bad...not great....but worth watching more then once. Good cast of characters. Interesting plot with the rich boys getting lost in the inner city where the only rule is to survive to see dalylight.
Nice acting job by Emelio, Gooding and Leary.
Plenty of action and a fast moving plot.
Probably worth 4 stars.