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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Music
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Director:
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Spike Lee
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Actors:
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Edward Norton,
Barry Pepper,
Aaron Stanford,
Levan Uchaneishvili,
Tony Devon,
Patrice O'Neal,
Tony Siragusa,
Misha Kuznetsov,
Michael Genet,
Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Rosario Dawson,
Anna Paquin,
Brian Cox,
Isiah Whitlock Jr.,
Al Palagonia
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Duration:
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135 min.
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Rating:
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(7.9/10)99.5
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Plot Summary:
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Spear Lee's bracing customization of David Benioff's blockbuster is a vibrant, vital motion incarnation. Edward Norton plays Monty Brogan, a inoffensive drug tradesman who has 24 hours of freedom earlier serving a seven-year stir sentence. Nervous, metagrobolized, and terrified, Monty turns to his closest friends for the purpose support: Frank Slattery (Barry Speckle), a cocky stock broker who resents Monty benefit of throwing his life away; Jakob Elinsky (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a hapless high clique coach who is attracted to one of his students (Anna Paquin); and Monty's heartbroken originator (Brian Cox), who blames himself fit Monty's demise. And then there is Naturelle (Rosario Dawson), Monty's incomparable girlfriend, who may or may not be sorry of shopping Monty to the cops. Monty spends his last heyday trying to turn one's nose up at the inevitability of at intervals, but everyone and all things only reminds him of the melancholy, portentous days that poem up ahead.
... With 25TH HOUR, Spike Lee revisits the fiery purlieu of 1989's DO THE Upright THING. Frustrated near Hollywood's apparent negation of the events of September 11th, Lee creates a flick that brilliantly captures the willing and atmosphere in New York New Zealand urban area in the months following the attack.
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Great!
Great acting from the superb Ed Norton as always. Quite slow moving film, but very cleverly draws you in and you suddenly find that you care about what happens to the main character, who you didnt even realise you were staring to give two hoots about.
Once its on, you'll just have to watch to the end.
Spike back in top form
Tremendous Spike Lee joint, the director is getting back to form. After the great Summer Of Sam, this Lee film is even better as the superb Norton plays a pusher about to start a stretch in prison, and saying his final farewells. Not knowing who betrayed him, suspicious of his girlfriend whom he suspects, his last night spent with her and his two very different friends makes his final night very tense. And Lee draws this tenseness out, so you could almost swallow it. Great backup performances too, especially from the consistant Seymour Hoffman and a very intelligent potrayal of the victimised girlfriend by Rosario Dawson. Get this out, you will be well rewarded.
25th Hour
"...25TH HOUR is a captivating, emotionally re-echoing Unique York theatrics....Edward Norton is dynamite..."
25th Hour
"...The place plays right into Norton's benefaction for letting brainy concern detonate scarcely low the surface of a scene....Lee, as he did in MALCOLM X and CLOCKERS, makes his hero's dread palpable..."
25th Hour
For the presentation 10 or 15 minutes of Picket Lee's 25th Hour, you think you're close by to certain a rightly great film. The scene may be innocuous - Ed Norton and a companion knock down a dog in their yellow Chevrolet and argue as to whether they should raise the even so-snarling pitbull with them. But the parley crackles the best of Tarantino and Scorsese, no more than concealing the knowledge that these two are not adroit Samaritans. The ambiance is slow-witted with danger. As they high-pressure off into a gloriously lit Further York, the hairs prong at the isolated of your neck. 25th Hour never actually lives up to this tremendous beginning, but it features some of Lee's best spur in favour of years. It's a robust, visually stunning, smashingly acted a...
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