Boiling Point

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Blu B @RT43513976 05/05/2025 I don't know what's worse. Getting nonsense thrown at you nonstop or being so boring and convuluted. Actually I do...at least the former your entertained a bit more. The editing and pacing is terrible here. It's so jumpy right from the start cutting between, Hopper, Snipes, and like 2-3 other people so much that while I get the basic idea of how this starts and how it will end being the cops will get the bad guys. I for the life of me can't tell you what the heck happens in the middle or why I should care or how it all ties together. Because it is so jumpy, convuluted, and boring. The relationships with the women in this feels so pointless and doesn't add up to anything for anyone. And it's not even like the scenes themselves don't makes sense. They doit's just I don't get how they tie in at all. The music is boring, sleepy, and forgettable. Everything else isn't good. Everyone just says their lines so lifelessly and half of it is just plot expose or very meandering. No really has much life at all or emotion hardly. The cinematography isn't good mainly because the direction is just so....Nothing...like the best way to describe it is you know those directors who were once amazing and could do no wrong and in their final films you can't even tell it's them. Think Hal Ashby, Otto Preminger, Robert Wise, Terrance Young and plenty of others.And that more than anything weighs it down...it's so lifeless directionwise. Not terrible but just...mediocre and unassuming as all hell. Just going through the motions. And I think that's a big reason why it's so boring and doesn't have the entertaining factor. Skip this. There are way better crime action movies than this. there isn't even a lot of action either or thrills. So it fails at both. Skip this See more 06/06/2020 Great early nineties cinematography - and that's where the compliments end. Drawn out "hip" crime dialogue done at a snail's pace, hokey coincidence character interaction, uninspired performances and virtually no action. Could have been an addition to modern noir, but utterly fails. See more 03/23/2020 Ok movie but it's a Mild-average movie and it just feel a little uneven action/crime with very low on ideas that's bit lacking in excitement. Often lower then Passenger 57 & MONEY TRAIN , Rising Sun. See more 11/12/2017 This is exactly as dull and boring as Wesley's facial expression on the cover. See more 02/20/2016 A solid neo-noir with excellent supporting performance from Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya, and, of course Dennis Hopper. I think the unfortunately low scores and the films poor initial reception are largely the fault of the terrible marketing which sold a character driven noirish police procedural as an over the top action thriller. See more 03/07/2015 It baffles me how you could put such quality actors in a movie and fail to amuse or entertain. The diaogue falls so flat, you'll wince during every line. I kept hoping that someone would cut off Dennis Hopper's arms so he'd stop gesturing on every syllable. See more Read all reviews

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