Boarding Gate (2007)
26 %
Reviews Counted: 39 Fresh: 10 Rotten:29 Average Rating: 4.6/10
Consensus:
Boarding Gate has little substance beneath its faux-thriller surface, and marks a step down from director Olivier Assayas' usual work.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Theatrical Release: Mar 21, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Director Oliver Assayas has established his name by crafting well-made erotic thrillers like DEMONLOVER and CLEAN. The director sticks closely to his guns by adding another similarly themed entry to his canon in BOARDING GATE. Assayas's film is a loosely plotted drama that stars the... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Asia Argento, Michael Madsen, Carl Ng, Kelly Lin, Joana Preiss
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As for Argento … yeah, she’s got something. Now we’d like to see her in a movie that makes sense.
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04/24/08
What it all means is up for grabs, but for connoisseurs of sadomasochistic nastiness, it’s a must-see.
04/17/08
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The main thing interesting about Boarding Gate is the spectacle of Assayas' effort -- the attitude and the international backdrop -- not the story itself.
04/11/08
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In the "B" movie days, a story like this would shoot by in about 70 minutes without time to pick holes in the motives. But Assayas takes a bloated, boring 106 minutes.
04/10/08
Could have been an exciting and inventive film, if only it weren't so bland and familiar.
04/04/08
Like just about everything in Boarding Gate, the finale suggests that its creators have been watching too many other movies with similar premises and payoffs.
03/28/08
The plot may be murky, but actress Asia Argento is a clear and commanding force throughout.
03/28/08
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[Assayas] has concocted a plot that is dizzying and annoying at times, and it's hard to care about the characters in the shifting story. But B-movie veteran Argento's portrayal of Sandra is like watching a car careening down an incline.
03/28/08
Writer-director Olivier Assayas must have been working out some personal demons to make something as embarrassing as Boarding Gate, the most trite and trivial piece of sleaze since Abel Ferrara's Snake Eyes.
03/27/08
There are long, droning bouts of dialog about nothing meant to link scenes together, but all Boarding Gate really does is fixate on watching Asia Argento do stuff.
03/22/08
This hypnotic, angular thriller about sex, murder, betrayal and money takes you on a feverish journey from nowhere to somewhere.
03/21/08
Top Critic
A ridiculous poseur thriller that seems to be made up of the slow moments from Hong Kong action films and Euro-flashy stuff like Run Lola Run.
03/21/08
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The latest entry in this perplexing preoccupation with lowlifes is Boarding Gate, an astonishingly un-thrilling thriller.
03/21/08
Seriously flawed and not for every taste, the film was shot quickly and on the cheap, and is driven by Argento's slurred, scratchy voice and Bette David eyes.
03/21/08
Even an ultra-feral performance by Asia Argento -- the art house Angelina Jolie -- isn't enough to suffer through Boarding Gate, a draggy and incoherent thriller by French director Oliver Assayas.
03/21/08
Top Critic
We don't want to see Asia Argento talking about her history of drugs and wild sex, we want to see her doing it.
03/21/08
Call it a cinema of guilty pleasure, and don't worry if you fall asleep in your seat after the sex scene is over. You won't be alone.
03/20/08
Boarding Gate plays with various genre codes and conventions very differently than most run-of-the-mill modern thrillers.
03/20/08
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(2008 USA release)-Olivier Assayas' BOARDING GATE opens up Asia Argento's fun side???
by: REEL_REVIEWER 5/30
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(2008 USA release)-Olivier Assayas' BOARDING GATE opens up Asia Argento's fun side???
by: REEL_REVIEWER 5/30
by: REEL_REVIEWER 5/30
(2008 USA release)-Olivier Assayas' BOARDING GATE opens up Asia Argento's fun side???
by: REEL_REVIEWER 5/30
by: REEL_REVIEWER 5/30
(2008 USA release)-Olivier Assayas' BOARDING GATE opens up Asia Argento's fun side???
by: REEL_REVIEWER 5/30
by: REEL_REVIEWER 5/30
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