Released on: 2007
Rating: 6.50
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Review: 'United Red Army' A Text Book Heavy Look At History
Let's say that 100 minutes is the perfect running time for a film and something that all types of audiences can get behind without complaint. Within that standard is about 20 minutes of leniency; remove that much and things feel brisk, tack on that much and different elements are allowed to flourish which is likely to lead to a more satisfying conclusion. But why does a movie exceeding two hours feel like work just by reading the running time? Even a 130 minute movie will induce some sort of sigh--are those extra ten minutes really pushing things over the edge?…»
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‘The Whistleblower’ Trailer
It was almost exactly a year ago that we saw the sales trailer [1] for The Whistleblower, a thriller in which Rachel Weisz plays a Nebraska cop working as a peacekeeper in postwar Bosnia who uncovers a sex scandal. The movie played Toronto last September, and hit a few other fests afterward, but we haven't heard much about the picture since then. Samuel Goldwyn Films is distributing, and the company has now released a full Us trailer. It's after the break. The movie boasts an impressive cast that makes it worth a look. (Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Bellucci, Benedict Cumberbatch, Luke Treadway and David Strathairn co-star) But this trailer makes The Whistleblower look like a film that hits a lot of familiar political thriller beats, without any characters that make it much different from a great many other films.There are other trailers out there (like this one [2], which has the lively couplet "Something fucked-up's going on.»
- Russ Fischer
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