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MOVIE REVIEW ()             REVIEW BY JERM
GROUNDBREAKING! VISIONARY!  YES I HEARD ALL THE REVIEWS FOR THIS $33M THRILLER WHEN IT WAS RELEASED IN 2000.  NEEDLESS TO SAY I WAS VERY EXCITED TO FINALLY GET MY HANDS ON A COPY AND TO SEE WHAT ALL THE FUSS WAS ABOUT.  BUT AFTER ALMOST 2 OF THE LONGEST HOURS IN MOVIE HISTORY I GOT UP TO CHECK AND MAKE SURE THIS WAS THE RIGHT MOVIE.  UNFORTUNATELY, IT WAS THE RIGHT MOVIE.  THE CELL SURROUNDS A “SILENCE OF THE LAMBS WITH A TWIST” TYPE PLOT OF A PSYCHOLOGICALLY DISTURBED SERIAL KILLER NAMED STARGHER.  NOW AS STARGHER IS ABOUT TO BE CAUGHT HE SUFFERS A SEIZURE THAT RENDERS HIM COMATOSE AND THUS LEAVES THE LOCATION OF HIS LAST VICTIM UNKNOWN.  NOW THE FBI HAS ABOUT 40 HOURS TO FIND THIS VICTIM BEFORE SHE IS KILLED BY THIS AUTOMATED MACHINE STARGHER LEFT HER IN.  CONFUSED YET?  HERE’S WHERE WE GET TO SEE HOW GOOD CATHERINE (LOPEZ) IS.  SHE IS A CHILD THERAPIST WHO IS WORKING ON A PROJECT THAT ALLOWS HER TO ENTER THE MINDS OF PEOPLE IN COMAS.  THE FBI COME UP WITH THIS IDEA TO SEND HER INTO STARGHER’S MIND IN ORDER TO FIND THE LOCATION OF THE VICTIM BEFORE SHE IS KILLED.  NEEDLESS TO SAY THAT STARGHER HAS ONE CRAZY MIND, AND THUS ENSUES A RACE AGAINST TIME AS CATHERINE TRIES TO FIND A COMPASSIONATE SIDE INSIDE STARGHER’S HEAD.  CHARACTER WISE, THE MOVIE IS FULL OF STEREOTYPES.  THE HELPLESS, NAIVE VICTIMS, THE TUFF AND DETERMINED COPS AND THE EVER SO CARING AND CAUTIOUS DOCTORS.  LOPEZ IS BASICALLY WINDOW DRESSING FOR A MOVIE THAT NEVER REALLY LEAVES THE GROUND.  THE SPECIAL EFFECTS PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE MOVIE BUT SOMETIMES CAN BE A LITTLE OVERPOWERING TO THE SCENE IN WHICH THEY’RE IN.  THE MOVIE DOES SHOW TREMENDOUS POTENTIAL, BUT ONCE YOU GET TO THE ENDING, YOU REALIZE YOU COULD HAVE GOTTEN THERE WITH OR WITHOUT CATHERINE’S HELP.  ALL IN ALL, GO RENT SILENCE OF THE LAMBS AND LEAVE THIS ONE ON THE SHELF 

DVD REVIEW ()
NOW THIS IS WHAT WE CALL A DVD!!!  THIS DVD SCREAMS PERFECTION.  THE 5.1 SOUND MIX WAS PERFECT, USING THE SURROUNDS THROUGHOUT THE “DREAM” SEQUENCES.  THERE ARE A FEW DELETED SCENES AND THEY CAN BE PLAYED WITH OR WITHOUT THE DIRECTORS COMMENTARY ON WHY THEY WERE CUT.  THERE WERE “BEHIND THE SCENES” FEATURETTES.  AUDIO COMMENTARY, AND, OF COURSE, THE TRAILER.  THERE WAS ALSO SOME NEAT LITTLE EXTRAS, SUCH AS A PARENTAL LOCK (YOU’LL NEED IT) AND SOME DVD-ROM INTERACTIVE GAMES.  THERE ISN’T MUCH YOU COULD SAY THIS DVD DIDN’T HAVE.  YOU COULD COMPLAIN THAT THE MOVIE DIDN’T HAVE A DTS 5.1 SOUNDTRACK, BUT YOU WOULD STILL END UP WITH A 5 STAR DVD.  PERFECT IN ALL RESPECTS, TOO BAD THE MOVIE WASN’T.

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