SPOILERS THROUGH:
Christian Slater stars in this movie as Vincent Palmer a corporate recruiter, who has one major problem, that being that he is insane. Gil Bellows plays the hapless guy who Palmer targets as the perfect person to fill a job for his client. The only slight problem Is that this guy has no interest in changing jobs. But that's not a problem for Mr. Palmer. He'll just force the guy to take the job by stalking him, threatening violence and generally making his every moment a nightmare.
This movie sounded like it had potential. Not as being a good movie but as being one of those "so bad it's good" movies, the kind one loves to hate, knows is bad, but for some inexplicable reason watches(more then once) and is pretty entertained by anyway. That however was not to be with Pursued. It wasn't "so bad it's good" it was just bad period.
Stalker movies have been done and done again and it seems like every kind of situation has been covered but I must say I've not seen this done before so it did sound, at the very least interesting. Only it isn't. Within the movie's first few minutes, the viewer knows Slater's character is insane. The rest of the movie is spent waiting for someone in the movie to realize it. Bellows character kind of gets it but his passivity is really annoying as is the character of the wife who almost defies belief with HER reaction to the won't take no for an answer head hunter. And Slater's performance isn't as campy as I'd have imagined it would be. In fact the whole cast plays it pretty serious and the visual element to the movie is almost non existent. It's very mundane in that department.
The technical aspects of the movie are not very interesting and the speech about the corporate executives becoming targets? Good speech but it sure didn't fit in this movie. (for some reason there was a brief moment where I felt a sense of deja vu, like I was watching the movie "Disclsure", a much better movie that has almost nothing in common with this one, but I could see a speech like this in a movie like that more then here.) So, because everyone seems to be taking the movie so seriously there's no camp. There are also no twists and turns. There are also no surprises. There is no character development. (ok-movies like this rarely have character development. But still....)
Also It is just not that interesting. Almost everybody is annoying anyway and the few that aren't, are not given enough screen time. Plus many of the performers just mail in their performances anyway, though a few are actually pretty good. It's not unwatchable and isn't as bad as some of the other, more well known movies of this type, but on the whole this was still pretty Disappointing.
Christian Slater stars in this movie as Vincent Palmer a corporate recruiter, who has one major problem, that being that he is insane. Gil Bellows plays the hapless guy who Palmer targets as the perfect person to fill a job for his client. The only slight problem Is that this guy has no interest in changing jobs. But that's not a problem for Mr. Palmer. He'll just force the guy to take the job by stalking him, threatening violence and generally making his every moment a nightmare.
This movie sounded like it had potential. Not as being a good movie but as being one of those "so bad it's good" movies, the kind one loves to hate, knows is bad, but for some inexplicable reason watches(more then once) and is pretty entertained by anyway. That however was not to be with Pursued. It wasn't "so bad it's good" it was just bad period.
Stalker movies have been done and done again and it seems like every kind of situation has been covered but I must say I've not seen this done before so it did sound, at the very least interesting. Only it isn't. Within the movie's first few minutes, the viewer knows Slater's character is insane. The rest of the movie is spent waiting for someone in the movie to realize it. Bellows character kind of gets it but his passivity is really annoying as is the character of the wife who almost defies belief with HER reaction to the won't take no for an answer head hunter. And Slater's performance isn't as campy as I'd have imagined it would be. In fact the whole cast plays it pretty serious and the visual element to the movie is almost non existent. It's very mundane in that department.
The technical aspects of the movie are not very interesting and the speech about the corporate executives becoming targets? Good speech but it sure didn't fit in this movie. (for some reason there was a brief moment where I felt a sense of deja vu, like I was watching the movie "Disclsure", a much better movie that has almost nothing in common with this one, but I could see a speech like this in a movie like that more then here.) So, because everyone seems to be taking the movie so seriously there's no camp. There are also no twists and turns. There are also no surprises. There is no character development. (ok-movies like this rarely have character development. But still....)
Also It is just not that interesting. Almost everybody is annoying anyway and the few that aren't, are not given enough screen time. Plus many of the performers just mail in their performances anyway, though a few are actually pretty good. It's not unwatchable and isn't as bad as some of the other, more well known movies of this type, but on the whole this was still pretty Disappointing.