Ransom (Special Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Ransom (Special Edition)
Movie Review: Good drama
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been trying to get this on DVD. I have it on VHS, but the tape was starting to dry out. I have always enjoyed Mel Gibson in all his movies. When I first viewed this movie several years ago, the twist in the plot was unexpected. Good writers and directing.Movie Review: WOW DANG ONE OF THE BEST TV DVD-MOVE FOR SHORE EVER DONE
Summary: 5 Stars
NOW I COULD EASYLY SAY THIS WILL GO DOWN AS ONE OF THE GRATEST MOVE EVER MADE IN THE WORLD THAT IS SO FOR SHORE & THAT IS PUTTING IT LIGHTLYMovie Review: what a tear jerker!
Summary: 5 Stars
If only this was real life! Would you have done want he did?
An awesome movie.
Movie Review: Calling a Bluff: A Timely Look at Citizen/Police Interaction in Kidnapping
Summary: 4 Stars
RANSOM is yet another Hollywood extravaganza movie about the terrors of the crime of kidnapping - with a twist. Ron Howard directs this, for the most part, gripping story with propulsion and the ability to gain nuanced performances from a disparate cast. The result is a tightly wound spring that coils tensely until the last fifteen minutes when the film explodes.
Tom Mullen (Mel Gibson) is a wealthy man with a strong willed wife Kate (Rene Russo) and a son Sean (Brawley Nolte - yes, in life the son of actor Nick Nolte). When Sean is kidnapped by a Detective (!) Jimmy Shaker (Gary Sinise) and ransom is demanded, Tom goes before national TV audiences and doubles the ransom demand for a bounty on Shaker's life. How this turn of events of a kidnapper becoming the victim and the resolution of the kidnapping that results is the gist of the story: it is the struggle of good vs evil, citizen vs police, and calling the bluff of a dangerous man for the sake of a father saving his child.
Gibson does well as the torn father, though director Howard allows him to go a bit over the edge, acting wise. The real shiner of this film is Gary Sinise who continues to impress with the facility with which he moves through varied character parts. There are moments of fine expressive silences from co-stars Lili Taylor, Liev Schreiber, Evan Handler, Delroy Lindo, and Donnie Wahlberg that enhance the tension because of the underplaying of their roles: Gibson could take some pointers...A good cat and mouse tale that has at its core the heinous crime of kidnapping, police corruption, and family devotion, this film is worth a view. Grady Harp, July 05
Movie Review: This Gets Your Attention!
Summary: 4 Stars
If your ears can withstand a ton of profanity and usages of the Lord's name in vain, then this movie offers good entertainment. Otherwise, obtain one of those profanity filters or skip this film because there is a ton of swearing.
There also is a ton of suspense as the police race to save a young boy from a vicious kidnapper. That's not exactly something new, story-wise, but it keeps your attention for the full two hours. Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Deroy Lindro, Gary Sinise, Lily Taylor, Liev Schreiber and Donnie Wahlberg make for a deep and talented cast.
The action wasn't overdone and the story was a very involving one. I only had one criticism of it but if I mention it, I ruin the ending. Suffice to say this was an intense, interesting movie marred only by overdone verbal blasphemy, most of it by Gibson (in his pre-"Passion" days, obviously.)