Waking the Dead
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Movie Reviews of Waking the Dead
Movie Review: Waking, indeed.
Summary: 3 Stars
Jennifer Connelly and Billy Crudup are great actors. Both understand the power of subtlety and transforming a moment into something more, not just with words but with eyes, and intensity. This movie does disservice to all of their skills but then again because of just how good they are both rise about the material.
The editing is choppy and sometimes Keith Gordon, the director, seems to lose focus of what kind of film he is making tonally, that is. When he allows the leads to sit there and talk on the train after a disastrous outing the magic these actors possess becomes tangible, just absolutely great.
This is a grown up romance that is portrayed and certainly more political and feiry than most, but it leaves a lot of questions to answered by the audience and that's rare.
The extras on this thing are awesome. The movie is worth watching but the extras really do great things for this movie. The deleted scenes are actually deleted story lines so if you watch this movie then quickly go to these scenes you get a whole new movie. There is a directors commentary that is actually informative not only as to the making of the movie but also the actors themselves. Most of the scenes, the really good ones, it turns out, are improvised. Good stuff. Good stuff.
Check this movie out and add it to your collection. If you love Jennifer Connelly this is your movie. If you love Billy Crudup this is your movie. If you love romance this is your movie. If you think the title means that this is a scary movie than, well you haven't been following along and this is indeed not your movie.
Movie Review: LOVE AFTER DEATH
Summary: 3 Stars
WAKING THE DEAD is one of those movies that even though its competently done with very good production values, I just didn't find it entertaining. It's a rather somber love story well acted by Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly.
Set in the early 1970s and the early 1980s, the story follows Crudup, an up and coming brilliant law student who wants to be president someday. Connelly is the girl he falls for, and she's a radical who takes on all kinds of causes, ultimately ending in her tragic death...or is she really dead?
In the 80s, Crudup starts seeing Connelly and thinks she might be losing his mind, which wouldn't serve his goals as a candidate for Congress.
The movie is long on dialogue and director Keith Gordon gives us some pretty visual images and elicits good performances from the cast.
But the real situation with Connelly's fate is romanticized and ultimately left for us to decide the truth.
Romantics will probably enjoy this a little more than I did.
Movie Review: Okay...but not Amazing..
Summary: 3 Stars
A relatively unkown film by Keith Gordon, Waking The Dead stars bright young stars Jennifer Connelly and Billy Crudup. Hailed as "One of the most powerful romance in recent years" boasts Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle, might be a little strong. Granted, Billy Crudup has a fine perfomance as our leading man and steals many of Jennifer's scenes, but the film is lacking a strong base which films like "Still breathing" or "Jerry Maguire" had with its strong writing and its well-paced cuts. There are a few times when things really get going and the scene is cut (basically, the 'we understand so move on' theory of such films like well, every Nora Ephron picture) . Overall, there is a great story here. Unfortunately I don't fall for half of it. It's one of those films that while I'm watching it, I'm imagining the better film that it could be.
Jennifer is lovely as always, but can she act? Have we ever really cared?
Movie Review: Overwrought Love Story -
Summary: 1 Stars
"Waking the Dead" is about an ambitious man who falls in love with an idealistic hippie woman. The love is deep but the issues that divide them are deeper. After she dies, he tries to get on with his life but keeps seeing her.
We are pulled back and forth between the 1970's and 1980's. Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudu) is a young Coast Guard officer with political ambitions. He meets and falls in love with Sarah Williams (Jennifer Connelly) a young hippie-type idealist that is also Catholic and supports their causes. She has doubts about her role as his wife as he climbs the political ladder.
Fielding sees a news show on Sarah's death. A news anchor reports on a car bombing in Minneapolis following a church mission to Chile. Sarah wants to help the oppressed resist Chile's right wing government. After the news show, Fielding has flashbacks, hears Sarah's voice, sees a young Sarah and cannot forget her.
He feels he is going crazy with his unresolved grief. After he is elected Senator, Sarah comes to his office for a last goodbye. Finally he gets closure and understands what Sarah felt about their relationship. They love each other deeply but have different political and life views.
"Waking the Dead" is overwrought and needs resuscitation.
Movie Review: Some movies just don't make you care.
Summary: 1 Stars
I cannot understand why this movie has so many positive reviews. My partner and I bought this for a discounted price mostly because we love Jennifer C. But on watching this.....there were times where I burst out laughing so hard at the movie that we had to pause it! And not because it was funny.....because I just wish the guys at MST3K could get a hold of it. Horrible acting, boring and odd dialogue and a very boring story line. It felt like an overdrawn episode of "Unsolved Mysteries" but without the cool music.