WillSushyMedia
This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.
Teddie Blake
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Winifred
The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.
penguinopolipitese
This movie I would probably give a score in the low to mid 70s. It's actually one of my favourites but it isn't some extraordinary masterpiece. It's one of those movies, however, that stands alone and is unique. I would describe it as a story book on film. All of the actors play their parts quite beautifully. The hanks/ryan pairing started out with this film and it is obvious why the formula continued successfully in later films. You've got for example Nathan Lane, Abe Vigoda, and Lloyd Bridges in just ridiculous and unexpected roles and the whole cast makes it fun.
The whole absurd story manages to be work I think because like most good fiction it has a grounding in reality and then dramatizes it for effect. In the case of this film the dramatization is outlandish and crazy but it also makes it a lot of fun.
I'd recommend this for a boring night where you just want to have some fun and aren't looking for something particularly mind blowing.
Blueghost
I had a friend who laughed at anything, and thought all comedies were works of genius. This thing is no exception. The only problem is that it's slow paced, unfocused, and, like old cliché goes, "It looked great on paper."I'm sure the screenplay read as if it were an interesting project, but you really need to know what you're doing when you direct your own stuff, and one gets the impression that the writer didn't direct a whole lot of projects prior. And indeed said director has no track record of anything prior to this credit.There are talented people out there who can make things work the first time around. And there are people for whom much talent is given to them in the form of personnel in order that they do not fail. And then there are the people who've done lots of favors for everyone else, and so they cajole others to let them handle something.Where this film isn't a ludicrous bomb with B-movie overtones, far from it, it does lack a certain energy that was much needed and might have been injected by any other seasoned director. I guess in the end it's a time waster. I'm glad it's not a movie I paid to see (I caught it on HBO a year after it had been in the theatres), and where it isn't horrible, it's in a solid middle gray area of mediocre. Watch at your own risk.
SnoopyStyle
Joe Bank (Tom Hanks) has a depressing job in the Advertising Dept of American Panascope in Long Island City, New York. They make rectal probes. He suffers under his supervisor Mr. Waturi (Dan Hedaya). He's diagnosed with terminal brain cloud with six months to live. He quits and asks out his co-worker DeDe (Meg Ryan). Wealthy businessman Samuel Graynamore (Lloyd Bridges) needs to placate locals on an island to mine a rare mineral. He hires Joe to jump into the volcano to appease their god. Joe hires limo driver Marshall (Ossie Davis) to help him spend the money. Samuel's flighty daughter Angelica (Meg Ryan) picks him up at the airport in L.A. Angelica's half-sister Patricia (Meg Ray) captains the yacht that brings him to the island.I like his surrealistic work life. It reminds me of Brazil. The movie does get uneven at times. After getting the credit cards, Joe goes back into the real world. I expected more surrealism. After that, the surrealism returns with Meg Ryan playing another character. It makes shopping in Manhattan out of step.The 3 Meg Ryan performances are a little jarring at first. I enjoy DeDe as a little wacky and a little darker than her usual fare. Angelica is not as enjoyable. She seems to be trying to hard with her voice. She should pull back a little with the crazy voice and she could replace Ossie Davis on his shopping trips. Patricia is classic Meg and shows their easy chemistry once again. Overall, this may be uneven at times but there are plenty of interesting imaginative concepts.
Wuchak
That pretty much sums up this 1990 film starring Tom Hanks as a miserable man stuck in an uninspiring job. After learning he's going to die in six months, he accepts an offer to live it up for a couple of weeks and sacrifice himself in a volcano on some nondescript Pacific island.Right off the bat, the movie tips off that it's more fantasy than reality. There's a great message about not selling your life -- your dreams -- for whatever pathetic wage they're offering at the local factory or whatever the case. But the final act fizzles out in Giligan's Island cartooniness.Meg Ryan co-stars in a three-pronged role.GRADE: C+
