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The American (2010)
1/10
Much ado...hmmm nothing about nothing
1 November 2010
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Scenery in movie is beautiful, Clara's boobs and Clooney's back/ push ups are fine, but there is no real content.

Who is Clooney's character? Good mechanic, either with cars or with guns, good marksman. Something more? No information at all.

Where is he from? America. How old is he? Unknown. Has he been married? Unknown. Where he learned his skills? Unknown. Who are his customers? Unknown. Who wants to kill him? Guys from Sweden. Why? Unknown. Who is Pavel? Unknown. Why Pavel wants to kill him? Unknown.

What you can see in this movie besides nice boobs and male back? Not much. Man who is supposedly former assassin who wants to retire, but there is nowhere to run, and nobody to trust. Does that sound real? So - so. Material for 95 minutes movie? Can be. Laid out in this way so viewers have no information about anything? Definitely not.

If story have been laid out a bit different, so we could learn something, anything about Jack/Edward/Clooney, and empathize with him. That would take 5 minutes, one dialogue at most, and without that explanation result is crap. This movie is like Marcel Proust meets the James Bond, but we do not know anything about what Proust is thinking about, and James Bond is almost broken guy who do not know what he wants. Clooney in this movies is like Coca Cola without bubbles, known brand who made such lousy product so you are sorry you lost 95 minutes watching.

This review is already longer than "The American" script, "sapienti sat".
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Heartless (I) (2005 TV Movie)
6/10
Melanie is a great actress
13 February 2006
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Melanie is a great actress, but she was not ideal for this role. Better choice would be Nicole Kidman (which already played "bad girl" in a movie - "To die for").

She's playing lawyer who worships only one thing in life: money, and for it she's ready to go to incredible depth.

She's playing woman who adores carnal pleasures, both with older men (which she tries to use for money), or younger (which she uses for fun), and as she was convicting in her early movies "Somethin wild" as wild girl, now that kind of role doesn't suit her anymore.

This is "To die for", with another goal in main woman head, and men are only boys in her net, and unfortunately it is not convicting enough.

Esai Morales is solid, but they both should try more to give us fun, if not quality content.
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