Five Minutes of Heaven User Reviews

4*..."5MINUTES" had potential but just a few lines in the script could have made it great but instead the script ends up with a script that made it a B movie for sappy and cliche reasons. The writer's manual says watch those cliches closer than verb conjugations. Characters can speak "bad English' but for godsake don't have the characters going sappy in a movie that cost nearly $40 on a date. Hypothetical, not a spoiler: It' s like a father refusing to pull the trigger on a home invader because he doesn't want to kill someone in front of his kids ...who, by the way, is about to kill his kids. It's like one of those decisio-making kind of things ...in life! And, I tell you...it was a great decision to make in the movie. I don't like the context on how that decision was presented. It was way HBO Lifetime style. LIAM never disappoint, not really. He can just walk down the street with those long legs and the audience will pay attention. We did think we were in Bellfast, Ireland. That part was real enough. But there was something vital missing in the script and so it gets one mark down. --Margaret Opine

10/08/2009, 11:04 pm