Nick of Time
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Movie Reviews of Nick of Time
Movie Review: love at first site
Summary: 3 Stars
depp : definetly a different character for him. he was good but the plot was just missing something. suspenseful but as I said the plot missed something. good cast, good story.Movie Review: I liked it!
Summary: 3 Stars
Johnny was so cute! great plot! Great actors! Great movie!Movie Review: The performances salvage a messy plot...
Summary: 2 Stars
Already with heavy-arsenal names such as Depp and Walken "Nick of Time" still doesn't manage the must-see league of its genre. Without them, hmm, it would quietly drift into oblivion.It's a rather highly unlikely plot, where the secret service(s) wait till the last moment as the pick someone straight out of the crowd (!) , blackmail him that they'll kill his daughter should he not succumb to a deal where he has to go and kill the governor in a rally about to take place. Now you need as a viewer to get past this before you can begin enjoying the film. If, that is, and that's an "if" that comes with major complications. But back to the plot: what we have here is basically a major joke of an idea. the secret service and security of the governor's rally are all involved in the assasination plot, but since this is so major why would they wait till the last moment to find an assasin even if he needed be a patsy? And how would they have guaranteed results by simply picking him out of a crowd in a station??? This guy could've been a psycho, he could've been a cop, he could've been vasically anybody who wouldnt fit the schem not to mention they dont even check whether this guy can even shoot at all, let alone if he ever held a gun in his hands. Nope, it's as if all this doesn't matter. Yet, the picked patsy (J.Depp) goes along rather easily with the blackmail, which by the way only becomes convincing much, much later in the film, and then more absurdities begin to rain down on us:
the agent who's responsible for putting the whole scheme in motion (Walken) has to be omnipresent to make sure that the the patsy doesnt talk to anyone or doesnt try anything that would put the whole plot in jeopardy. This alone becomes almost comedic at times as Walken is following Depp around coaching him ("go and do your job now" or "dont mess up again" etc etc...) and all the time along Depp tries various methods of revealing the plot to someone or trying to escape to get his daughter back...And everytime Walken gets him back on track with the same monotonous "admonition": "go do what you're told".
The funniest part of that "plot" is where Depp finds a shoeshiner to whom he starts revealing the whole thing but then he passes him off to Walken as deaf even though Walken has been seeing him actually talk at length to the shoeshiner...That's basically where the whole thing falls apart completely..
Still, and considering what kind of faulty plot we're dealing with here, the movie does work. That would be mainly because of Walken's everconvincing performance as well as Depp's but on a secondary level.
Walken, is simply a joy to watch as he pulls off the tough merciless guy role in imposing fashion. He always does actually regardless of role. Depp follows to par without overimpressing really but without letting Walken alone in his task to carry the movie.
The 2 actors are the primary reason to watch this. Other than that, turn off your cerebrum because if you don't you might not make it through. Mostly for fans of Walken and Depp.
Movie Review: Nick of Time
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie was only marginally enjoyable. Watching Johnny Depp run around as a clueless accountant was pretty boring, and while Christopher Walken is a great actor, his role was marginal and one-sided. Instead of playing a real villain, he is essentially a tool to move the plot along by appearing suddenly and creeping out our protagonist.
Shooting the movie in real time was a novel idea, but it doesn't make it a better movie. While the viewer does get the sense that Johnny Depp is wasting time, or that he could be spending it better, or just simply that the time is running out, what struck me more was the boredom that came over me after watching Johnny Depp wheel about mindlessly for the umpteenth time. If the blame for all of the faults of the movie had to go to one person, it is probably the screenwriter, since the story was unoriginal and, frankly, boring.
This movie did have redeeming qualities. To name a few, Johnny Depp's acting was certainly high-quality. The plot twist at the end, while predictable, did move the film along.
Unfortunately, the movie was not over in anything close to a nick of time.
In consequence, if you want to see this movie, I would suggest renting it, but I certainly wouldn't buy it. I couldn't stand to see it again.
Movie Review: This movie saved Johnny Depp's career
Summary: 2 Stars
Thankfully, this movie seemed to scare Depp back into doing the characters he was created for. :) He makes do with what little he's given here, and Christopher Walken puts in his always tremendous performance as the off-the-edge bad guy. Unfortunately, despite the gimicky real-time plot line, there's just so little to work with for both of them.There's little suspense because the outcome is never really in doubt, and the plot stretches are HUGE. The political commentary was transparent and heavy handed. My friend and I had a bet going as to whether the lead character was actually going to be named "Nick." I was a bit surprised to find that I had won and that Depp's character was named "Gene." The rest of the movie is so formulaic that I wouldn't have put it past them.
Completist Depp or Walken fans will want to see this, but don't go into it expecting too much.