Susanne Bier’s follow-up to Open Hearts is wonderfully acted but predictably plotted by Anders Thomas Jensen.
This competent but disposable action thriller should appeal most to Friedkin enthusiasts.
Basic is just that: a mundane military thriller whose only goal is to appeal to an audience’s basic desire to be tricked into multiple corners.
Olivier Assayas’s obsession with the blurry line between fantasy and reality is lofty but unfocused.
Would people want to watch this story if it didn’t try to pull the rug out from under them every three minutes?
The film’s prevalent achievement is that it places Tommy Lee Jones in a familiar context but finds a different character for him to play.
Robin Williams as a disgruntled-photo-lab-employee-cum-creep-with-a-heart-of-gold?