{"id":13689,"date":"2018-10-09T20:44:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T00:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.9deuce.tv\/blogs\/?p=13689"},"modified":"2018-10-09T20:44:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T00:44:12","slug":"taking-lives-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.9deuce.tv\/blogs\/taking-lives-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Lives (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kristi bought this for me and told me to watch it.\u00a0 Who am I to argue with a lady sending me free movies, right?\u00a0 Looking at the cast, I also ways avoided it because of Angelina Jolie.\u00a0 I know I know.\u00a0 Yes, I am a heterosexual male.\u00a0 I just wasn’t crazy about her.\u00a0 She looked good in this one, much better than in Gone in 60 Seconds, that’s for sure.\u00a0 Nobody in this film looked as good as Nicholas\u00a0Cage though, haha.<\/p>\n

The story is tough to describe without giving away spoilers, but I will try to try.\u00a0 There’s a murderer early on named Martin, but that was several years ago.\u00a0 Flash forward, and we have a killer who is basically stealing his victim’s identity.\u00a0 He’s just busy…..Taking Lives.\u00a0 Yeah, I did that.\u00a0 So from the beginning, you know that we are most likely looking for Martin.\u00a0 Illeana (Jolie) is an FBI agent that comes up to Canada to give them a hand.\u00a0 I know a Canadien named Angelina.\u00a0 It is a small world after all.<\/p>\n

The cops\u00a0have a man in custody who was on the scene of this most recent murder named Costa (Ethan Hawke).\u00a0 This all leads into other stuff, and Kiefer Sutherland is involved and there’s a sex scene that is very pleasant to view, possibly multiple times.<\/p>\n

I will say that this film was incredibly predictable.\u00a0 The story was good, but there is a scene early on that they really should have played around with to add more intrigue.\u00a0 They also should have had it so that Martin’s brother was still alive.\u00a0 This could have been far more complex is my point.\u00a0 They had all the pieces, but it felt like they phoned it in at times.\u00a0 I enjoyed it.\u00a0 Angelina was actually good in this role surprisingly.\u00a0 Ethan Hawke is one of the most dependable actors out there that rarely gets his due.\u00a0 Much in the same way that Woody Harrelson just keeps on being awesome. Also, the beginning was probably my favorite part.\u00a0 The opening scene was really fucking good.<\/p>\n

Rating: 5.9 – I can’t give it a 6 because it was too predictable.\u00a0 I think the point of these films is to keep you guessing.\u00a0 While I couldn’t have guessed every minute detail, the big things were quite obvious, in my opinion.\u00a0 As I said, alter that one scene and you could be looking at 6.5-7.0 territory.\u00a0 They were on the cusp.\u00a0 Either way, I am happy that it is part of my collection because so many of my films are embarrassing to own.<\/p>\n

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