NICK OF TIME 1995
A film review by Timothy Voon
Copyright 1997 Timothy Voon
Cast: Johnny Depp, Christopher Walken, Roma Maffia, Charles S. Dutton, Marsha Mason Director: John Badham Screenplay: Patrick Sheane Duncan
As the minutes tick away, we get older each day. This is a ‘real time' movie so let's do this review real time.
12.00pm Depp arrives at the train station with his daughter. (The door bell rings, it's the Jehovah Witnesses. Oh no not again!)
12.15pm Walken and companion kidnap Depp and his daughter. ‘Kill the governor, or your little girl dies!' (Phone call. It's a survey on cars. Do I like B.M.W.s, Mercedes, or Porsches? I like Toyotas thank-you very much).
12.30pm Depp arrives at the hotel with Walken breathing down his neck. (Time for a toilet break.)
12.45pm The Governor's in the lift. Here's Depp's opportunity to shoot her, but the gun's not loaded. (What shall I have for lunch? Pizza? Kentucky? MacDonald's? Oh what the heck let's go Italian.)
1.00pm Ooops. Depp's just missed his second opportunity to kill the governor. The conspiracy unfolds. (Pause button. Home made Italian - Bolognese in the microwave. Ugggh!)
1.15pm Depp and the governor have a heart to heart at gun point. (Dry cleaning, groceries, return the videos and work tomorrow! And there's still a million and one things to do today.)
1.30m Finale. Finally. (Now of to the gym before it closes for renovations, and I got there in the nick of time!)
Ever feel like you were being rushed to finish something. Well that's what this movie feels like. Too much time focussed on the clock ticking away, and not enough time spent thinking through the mechanics of the movie.
Solid performances by Depp and Walken. An original concept, and occasionally tense.
Timothy Voon e-mail: stirling@netlink.com.au
The review above was posted to the
rec.arts.movies.reviews newsgroup (de.rec.film.kritiken for German reviews).
The Internet Movie Database accepts no responsibility for the contents of the
review and has no editorial control. Unless stated otherwise, the copyright
belongs to the author.
Please direct comments/criticisms of the review to relevant newsgroups.
Broken URLs inthe reviews are the responsibility of the author.
The formatting of the review is likely to differ from the original due
to ASCII to HTML conversion.
Related links: index of all rec.arts.movies.reviews reviews