I was thinking about this movie I saw last year and I noticed some similarities with the last arch of Jojolion. Of course I'm going to spoil all the movie, be aware of that.
THE PLOT
Let's see breefly the plot of the movie. Lisa works in a hotel and she is returning home by airplane. At the airport she meets Jack. Firstly he seems like a nice guy, but then she (and us) discovers he is a criminal. He wants to kill a senator - who is a client of the hotel - for money.
THE CHARACTERS
I feel very strong connections between Lisa-Yasuho and between Jack-Toru.
Jack is a sociopath. In the first place he seems a very charm guy, but in reality he is a cold murderer. Lisa is a brave woman who is capable of keep up on Jack.
Lisa's outfit looks very similar to the one of Yasuho
THE LOCATIONS
Ok, now we see the most important aspect. The movie has just three locations: the hotel, the airplain, and Lisa's house.
Jack is on the airplain, and is managing some killers at the hotel and Lisa's house.
At the hotel, some killers are waiting to kill the senator
On the airplain, Jack is forcing Lisa to change the hotel room of the senator
[At Lisa's house, a killer is watching Lisa's dad, in order to force her to follow Jack's orders](https://preview.redd.it/0w1xhvq5rtn71.jpg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&am
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421239/
This is a fun ‘woman in peril’ thriller directed by Wes Craven. Rachel McAdams is Lisa, a hotel worker and that classic girl next door (except way more gorgeous) who’s trapped in a frightening situation, but fights her way out of it with guts and smarts. Cillian Murphy is the very creepy (and kinda hilariously named) Jackson Rippner. Most of the action happens in an airplane which makes Lisa’s situation feel extra claustrophobic—thrillers that happen in enclosed spaces are my favorite. It may not have the most groundbreaking plot, but it is taut and suspenseful. There are also some funny scenes involving Lisa’s perpetually flustered coworker, and some nightmarish customers.
I saw a film about 10 years ago while I was in school, I was around 13 at the time [year 9 in the UK] and it had this title card (I've just done a mock-up of what the card looked like it did not have those letters and the lines just represent the text layout ) the film was psychological or horror and I remember feeling uncomfortable watching it.
It had yellow slightly overexposed colour grading in the day scenes and at night the scenes were colour graded a warm blues I'm pretty sure there were no mobile phones in it. I believe in small-town America.
One of the characters that showed up a lot was a woman with short blonde hair
It didn't seem like an old film and my teacher had it on DVD so I think it was probably made between 2005 and 2011
When I think about it I have an association with sheep but its not silence of the lambs because the age rating was too high for the age I was and schools were pretty strict on that, plus it didn't have that title card
I also have an association with the word "secret" in the title but that may also be wrong
Its also not associated with the cicada 3301 arg that has a cicada in the same position as that bee from the title card
The title card showed up and then it faded to the first scene which I can't remember either. It may have been a night scene where it was raining and a man with brown short hair seemed upset or a blonde lady in her kitchen on her own.
Anyone else see this little thriller movie with Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy?
It's actually an entertaining little thriller before the plot loses steam about halfway through or earlier. But it still manages to be a dignified movie until the last quarter or so when it suddenly turns into....I don't know what the hell to call it. Like the B'est of B thriller movies? Some terribly executed girl power theme gone wrong? How the hell was this the last part to what was a big studio (small movie but still pushed by a big studio) movie?
Suddenly, (spoilers ensue), this smooth ultra secretive assassin/criminal turns into fuckin' Goofy.Tripping over everything chasing the girl through a plane and then through an airport that has already sounded a security alarm. She even trips in the airport and takes some time to look back as the camera is trained on him furiously chasing a fallen person...only to be a mile ahead on the next shot
Now, after getting to her father's house and of course running over the professional hitman outside, we get to again see Cillian stumble over anything and everything like Looney Tunes while chasing Rachel through what seems to be 30 rooms in a single house. There, Rachel taunts Cillian that he failed his job...Cillian responds that he'll finish the job....and the movie's big whoosh one liner is Rachel saying 'Not in my house!' before she lol runs around a counter that somehow gets in Cillian's way
I just couldn't help but laugh out loud at that line (unintentional comedy at it's finest) and what the movie had suddenly turned into. Almost felt like it turned into some horrible spoof of Scream or something
So, did anyone see this movie. Confused at the ending? Not in terms of plot...just like from a filmmaker/writer standpoint. Because I'm a little confused as to what I just watched. It seriously suddenly turns into something I'd expect from some random made for TV movie for the Hallmark channel or something, not a Hollywood movie
I watched this film around 2004/2005 but it wasn't super new, I think.
It all revolves around a character played by an actor that I can NEVER remember the name of. Or other films he's worked in.
American (I think) actoe, must be in his 50s or 60s, blonde/bald, moustache, not very handsome. He's been in many medium-to-rather-big productions.
What I remember of the film is very vague. Maybe his wife cheating on him? I think he ends up murdering people and doing other stupid things.
He ends up in jail. I'm quite certain about that.
Also, the title is the name of the main character. A rather unusual one. Herbert? Edgar?
Thanks in advance, Reddit.
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