Waking the Dead
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Movie Reviews of Waking the Dead
Movie Review: Tantalizing
Summary: 4 Stars
"Waking the Dead" is a good drama. I found the central premise moving. Fielding Pierce loses his girlfriend Sarah to an act of violence. His longing for her is so strong after her passing that his desire to see her begins to make him question his sanity. Anybody who has lost someone important to them should be able to relate. Billy Crudup from "Mission Impossible III" plays the young lawyer/politician Fielding Pierce. He takes the performance to the edge with his desperation. Jennifer Connelly who won her Oscar for "A Beautiful Mind" the year before this film plays Sarah, a woman who is politically driven, which puts her in danger. Janet McTeer, who did an excellent job in Songcatcher & who was nominated for an Oscar for "Tumbleweeds," plays Fielding's sister who is his emotional support. Paul Hipp plays the wacko brother Danny whose Asian girlfriend is played by the talented Sandra Oh. This is a haunting story that I found tantalizes long after the disc ends. Enjoy.Movie Review: Love this movie
Summary: 4 Stars
First of all, Billy Crudup and Jennifery Connoly are beautiful and I didn't fully realized it until I saw this movie. Second, the conflict that arises when two people with lofty ideals try to better the world by taking parallel paths with hopes of accomplishing the same goals is compelling. I wish there was a little more plot exposition in the early days of their relationship because I agree it is at first hard to accept the intensity of their love with the whirlwind version that we see in the film. But I can forgive this for a thought-provoking, enjoyable movie. Billy Crudup's breakdown in the restaurant with his family is not to be missed.Movie Review: If you haven't seen this movie then you should
Summary: 4 Stars
I love this movie for so many reasons...
Its a great movie about love and loss.
He sees his girlfriend everywhere he goes and he remembers all
the good times and how they had to work out all their differences.
He was a into politics and had alot of different views and was hoping to be president one day, his girlfriend Sarah wanted to save the world and
no more war kind of view. They had a this love for each other that no matter how far apart thier views were they loved each other very much.
Jennifer Connelly and Billy Crudup did a great performance in this movie.
Movie Review: Awaken....
Summary: 4 Stars
Beautiful film. Billy Crudup gives a performance of his carrer. Connelly is great to watch and strong. Well played film. Don't blink or you'll miss Ed Harris appear on a TV screen. The movie tuggs at heart strings. Not the best but great. Not too original but is satisfying. Song at the ends along with Crudup is reason enough to watch.Movie Review: It resonates in the memory, but falls shy of its mark
Summary: 3 Stars
What an ambitious confluence of love, loss, devotion, idealism, insanity, and remembrance. Billy Crudup plays the political aspirant Fielding Pierce, and he brings to light yet another screen character with the radiance of a solar flare. Jennifer Connelly is something more rare, perhaps, more valuable--she seems to portray in the activist Sarah Williams the perfect human being. Yet an impenetrable fabric is drawn between these two lovers, the form of which is raised by Sarah's violent death while engaging in political unrest in Chile. Yet the intensity of Fielding's longing, or the strength of Sarah's soul, appears to have the power to resurrect her, as she begins to appear to Fielding in haunting glimpses. Wonderfully, this film takes for granted that love can transcend even death as simply and easily as a person can breathe.What a disappointment then that the center of this piece is so unsatisfyingly jumbled. Supporting characters are revealed to be flimsy characters callously used as mere props who have no life of their own but are used strictly to advance each scene to its conclusion. Most notoriously, the fine Sandra Oh is tragically miscast in a downright offensive turn as a half-intelligible prostitute. The story seems to dwell interminably on Crudup's Fielding in the throes of struggle to hold fast to his thread of lucidity as his political career verges towards its culmination in his race for a Congressial seat, even as his inner world is crumbling further with each passing minute. Can he keep his agony in check? The answer to this concern seems to fade to meaninglessness as he stumbles along the campaign trail, abusing his chances at office and his relationships with those still remaining in the land of the living. Perhaps this movie loses its center of gravity because director Keith Gordon and writer Robert Dillon craft a world that, although admirably fixated on the emotional life and consciousness shared by the two stars, does not care enough about the rest of the world for it to serve the story as a stabilizing platform when the lovers' connection is shattered. An unworthy medium for a performance by Crudup to stand with that of FH in Jesus' Son, and what is possibly Connelly's best work.
Nonetheless credit is due this film for attempting something so wonderfully strange; it's sentiment and, most of all, its imagination and invention, must return to the screen in these days of lost heart and cynical eyes, now, more than ever.