mwmhong
06-03-2002, 10:14 AM
Bored at work.
Went to the Sunday 4:40 special 35mm IMAX screening of 'the Sum of all Fears' at Paramount Chinook.
What a crap movie, the best special effects are in the commercials/trailers (short scenes of nuke going off, missiles hitting the carrier). Miss the movie itself and you'll miss some B-2 Stealth bombers and dime-a-dozen CNN smart bomb targetting camera shots.
There is some good humour scenes between Freeman and Affleck and the rest is predictable unsuspenseful political intrigue. You know what's going to happen and just wait for it to play out, no surprises, no plot twists, nothing.
I found the movie actually climaxes in the middle with the bomb going off and the rest is Affleck running around playing detective while the USA and Russian presidents do this standoff which gets really tiresome. "He thinks I'm weak, I'll bomb his base" "I'll arm nukes" "I'll arm nukes and send planes to take out his nukes."
You know what's going to happen (nothing).
$10.50X2 tickets+$13 for regular popcorn and two rootbeers=what a waste of 2 hours and $35 bucks.
Also, the girl there asked me if I wanted butter or margarine, I say butter, she walks off with the popcorn around the corner (I assume to top it with butter) and comes back and gives it to me. Back in the theatre, I discover no butter, not a drop. :mad:
Give this movie a 3/10, this movie sucked more than Attack of the Clones. Save your money for cheap screen or rental, if even that.
Afflecks girlfriend was cute though.
Went to the Sunday 4:40 special 35mm IMAX screening of 'the Sum of all Fears' at Paramount Chinook.
What a crap movie, the best special effects are in the commercials/trailers (short scenes of nuke going off, missiles hitting the carrier). Miss the movie itself and you'll miss some B-2 Stealth bombers and dime-a-dozen CNN smart bomb targetting camera shots.
There is some good humour scenes between Freeman and Affleck and the rest is predictable unsuspenseful political intrigue. You know what's going to happen and just wait for it to play out, no surprises, no plot twists, nothing.
I found the movie actually climaxes in the middle with the bomb going off and the rest is Affleck running around playing detective while the USA and Russian presidents do this standoff which gets really tiresome. "He thinks I'm weak, I'll bomb his base" "I'll arm nukes" "I'll arm nukes and send planes to take out his nukes."
You know what's going to happen (nothing).
$10.50X2 tickets+$13 for regular popcorn and two rootbeers=what a waste of 2 hours and $35 bucks.
Also, the girl there asked me if I wanted butter or margarine, I say butter, she walks off with the popcorn around the corner (I assume to top it with butter) and comes back and gives it to me. Back in the theatre, I discover no butter, not a drop. :mad:
Give this movie a 3/10, this movie sucked more than Attack of the Clones. Save your money for cheap screen or rental, if even that.
Afflecks girlfriend was cute though.