 | MOVIE #1,776 • 🍿🍿🍿 • 07.02.24 The second entry in today’s TWO 4 TUESDAY, the wild card movie, released in the same year, was quite literally a snooze. I think it put me to sleep within the first half-hour, a big rarity for me (I almost never fall asleep watching something). I should’ve picked a better “Limbo” (as there’s plenty to pick from) but the allure of reviewing two films from 1999 for 24T was too strong. John Sayles is a weird director: I think the kids would probably call him ‘mid’. He’s probably equally known for his work as a screenwriter, having penned scripts for big-time mainstream directors like John Frankenheimer, Joe Dante and Lewis Teague (of Alligator fame). I watched his Eight Men Out on VHS, a baseball movie, when I was a kid and remember thinking that was ‘high cinema’ when I was like 11. But I simply don’t have time for this… |
There's nothing worse than when you're going for a naturalistic vibe and it just falls completely flat.
I wound up skipping to the final fifteen minutes and Kris Kristofferson was apparently running drugs with a helicopter or something? Who cares, honestly. Not for me. (Giving it a generous 3/10 because I only watched about ⅓ of it)
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Limbo is a 1999 American adventure drama film written, produced, edited, and directed by John Sayles. It stars Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, David Strathairn, Vanessa Martinez, and Kris Kristofferson. It is the first theatrical film to be released and distributed by Screen Gems. It was released on May 22, 1999.
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