Release Date: Oct 21, 2008 Wide
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Life, it seems, could not possibly improve for Ben Garvey (Paul Walker). Though officially an ex-criminal (a reformed thief), he's worked extra-diligently to bury the past and start over - via a promising job, a gorgeous wife (Piper Perabo) and a lovely daughter. Tragically, though, the past comes back to haunt Ben when others learn of his history and rip his job away; he travels from bad to worse by making the ill-advised decision to join his shyster brother in a "get rich quick" burglary
Oct 21, 2008 Wide
Oct 21, 2008
Sony Entertainment
All Critics (5) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (1) | DVD (1)
...a frustratingly surreal (and progressively interminable) piece of work.
This chilling psychological thriller that keeps us hardwired to our seats gives charismatic Paul Walker a fine platform on which to display his considerable talents
For all this grumbling, The Lazarus Project is technically a well put together film. It looks good, and is reasonably well acted.
Generates nonstop gripping mental terror and nerve shredding false leads that never let up.
Combines chilling psychological horror with other scary notions like medical experimentation, death row, criminal redemption as an extinct idea, and religious tyranny.
Ok, well, I thought that this was a decent movie. Paul Walker did a great job, as did the entire cast. Some people compare this to Shutter Island. Ok, I admit it was a similar premise, but I didn't like Shutter Island...and I did like this. I DO, however, wish that they had ended this movie differently. I was left with
December 3, 2011Super Reviewer
Paul Walker plays a character sentenced to death - but wakes up after his lethal injections to a new world, or is it?This was supposed to be a psychological thriller in which I thought did its part throughout the majority of the movie. Within the last half hour it starts to unravel to the point in which it's not
November 13, 2011Super Reviewer
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