It’s a great idea for a stunt film, but terribly executed — a doc for the overly paranoid and the flat-out clueless. Before going off the grid, Bond requests documents from companies he’s done business with and is absolutely stunned — stunned — at the devious, nefarious things he learns. Amazon knows everyone he’s sent […]
The Fugitive
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Smile Jenny, You’re Dead
How ironic for this made-for-TV movie to sport “Smile” in its (incorrectly punctuated) title, because for network television — especially in 1974 — it’s remarkably morose. But it’s a crime drama, so that’s a good thing.“The Fugitive” fugitive David Janssen headlines as Harry Orwell, a former California cop who left the force after taking a […]
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Fast Five
And understandably so, as the first and fourth films failed to rev my fun engine. Yet “Fast Five” achieves that seemingly insurmountable peak. Once worldwide receipts are counted, I suspect its tally will be larger than any of its predecessors. Part of that is because it mostly glosses over what the 2001 original so off-puttingly […]