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Liberty Stands Still
As the heir and current marketing director for one of the nation's biggest gun manufacturers, Liberty Wallace is indifferent to the atrocities made possible through her business and her CEO husband, Victor. On her way to see her actor lover, Liberty ends up chained to a food cart full of explosives -- all at the insistence of "Joe", a sniper whose young daughter was a victim of gun violence, and who now has Liberty in his sights.
Release : | 2002 |
Rating : | 5.7 |
Studio : | Lions Gate Films, Cinerenta Medienbeteiligungs KG, Pearl Pictures, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Linda Fiorentino Wesley Snipes Tanya Allen Hart Bochner Terry Chen |
Genre : | Drama Action Thriller |
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When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
I reviewed "Phone Booth" a while back, and only heard of "Liberty Stands Still" a few months ago, it was released at the same time as "Phone Booth" and has a similar story line.When i watched "Liberty Stands Still" for the very first time, i was glued to my sofa, this movie is so riveting that i didn't even get up the whole time and get any snacks which is what i was planning to do."Liberty Stands Still" is better than "Phone Booth" simply due to the fact that there is not as much swearing as there is in "Phone Booth", also the plot for "Liberty Stands Still" is more mature, the bad guy is not over the top and the techno film score is even better than the score from "Phone Booth"."Liberty Stands Still" does have a few disturbing pieces of dialogue, as a Christian i did not like what was said about God at the beginning, and as an animal lover the dialogue about the Deer and the Deer cub is upsetting.It is clear "Phone Booth" got more hype than this film, it is highly likely that everyone has heard of "Phone Booth" and not many have heard of "Liberty Stands Still".The performances, scenarios, directing in this film is fantastic, and it is more gritty than "Phone Booth".
This movie is like a theater play. There's only one location and no action. This can make good movies. Tape (www.imdb.com/title/tt0275719/) for example is an excellent movie in my opinion. Baring entirely on dialog and acting. Liberty stands still lacks these qualities and is neither entertaining nor involving. It is however very annoying from start to finish because the premise is totally unrealistic and lacks any intelligence. I don't like movies where a bad guy (or eventually not just bad Wesley the sniper) has godlike control over his victims. Judging by the presence of a lot of comments with pro firearms opinions some people tend to think this movie tries to make a political statement against firearms. That is just foolish. Of course godlike control handed by a gun is THE ultimate way to market guns. Therefor rather than being an -though original- but failed attempt at an action movie without action, or a thriller without thrills this is a far far far to long commercial for guns, I say. Mabey there is some cleverness in this crap movie for passing as the opposite.It gets two stars because just one star is reserved for ultimate crap.
Linda Fiorentino (Liberty Wallace) an international arms dealer who sells to anyone...no questions asked. While out to meet her lover, she receives a phone-call; the sniper (Welsey Snipes) who she is talking to has her in his sights, and if she fails to do as she told, she will die; and if her phone goes dead she will detonate a bomb that will destroy a city block.The idea is good, and a strong sense of tension is built up by the performances of Fiorentino and Snipes, but after a clever and intriguing build up the film does eventually fall flat. By the end you may feel that the film makers missed a good opportunity to both make a statement and make a cracking film.6/10 If you like the concept - try phonebooth, it is better executed.
God, I wish, I could get back those two hours I've spent watching this ridiculous piece of...cinematography. Almost every aspect of this movie is remarkably bad. First of all, it's the plot. I mean, c'mon, watching this movie is like watching 2 hours long politically correct (which in fact allows discrimination of white gun-owners) anti-gun commercial. So, let's see, what do we have here. Oh, it's the black guy, whose daughter was shot in school by some fun freak (bet he was from Alabama, right?). So the only way a father can retaliate is by kidnapping a businesswoman, who's in gun business (guess he didn't have the stomach to deal with a man) and playing some sick twisted psychological games with her. Anyway, afterwards he shoots a major gun manufactures and commits suicide. What can be more of a self-advertising for anti-gun groups? Acting is average. Fiorentino is not bad, but this part is just not her type, IMHO, she should stick with femme fatale parts. And Wesley Snipes as crazy-yet-honest-gunman-blinded-by-rage-but-still-politically-correct ? Give me a break! He is good as Blade, but this character is too complicated for him. Anyway, the movie as as whole is awful. And this being an awful movie, the question is - do you feel lucky, that you came across my review and decided not to watch this garbage, punk? :)