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FireBlade DVD Review: The Player

Review by Jerry Stratton, 5/24/1999


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Whether or not you like this movie seems to depend solely on whether or not you take part in the movie industry. Insiders like it. Everyone else can give it a miss.

Recommendation: Special Interests Only
Director: Robert Altman Writer: Michael Tolkin
Format: Enhanced Widescreen
Last Memo: Enabled
Movie: 3
Transfer Quality: 8
Overall Rating: 3
Features
Commentary Track:4
Deleted Scenes:3
Cameo Guide:6

he basic storyline is not very nice and thus has a lot of potential, most of it wasted. Tim Robbins plays a studio executive in a power struggle with a new co-worker. His job is to listen to writers sell their ideas, choose a tiny, tiny number of them, and work them up to and through filming. He’s a jerk to people below him (writers) and an ass-kisser to those above him. There are threats against his life. He decides to take pre-emptive action and kills the person he thinks is responsible. Police Detective Whoopi Goldberg is on his trail. He falls in love with his victim’s girlfriend. Blah blah blah. A nice twisty sort of ending but not really worth getting to.

Recommendation: Special Interests Only


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Subtitled Languages: English, French, Spanish
Other items of interest: The Shawshank Redemption;
Forced Openers: Unknown

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