Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 5, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba B6 Winnipeg free August virtuosity silly futuristic film by Alison Gillmor free press correspondent like Ben Kingsley of Gandhi who has been slum Ming this summer in Denzel Washington clearly wants to throw Over All those worthy roles Stephen Mal Colm x and have himself a Little mindless Hes come to the right place with a Slick but supremely silly futuristic action flick that pits Washington character Parker Barnes against a computer Gener ated composite serial killer played by Russell Barnes is a Good Excog doing movie review virtuosity starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe Portage Kildonan vital restricted irk out of five hard time for avenging his dead wife and used by the police As a disposable Guinea pig in a Vir Tual reality training he the first person they turn to when their cyberspace psycho manages to get out into the real world of 1999 los Washington proves that he has what it takes to be an action Man actor like Bruce or when he convincingly beats the hell out of a White supremacist in a prison Hes establishing his Street credibility not just to the other convicts but to the audience As Crowe takes to evil in a Way you have expected when he was breaking hearts in Rural Manitoba in the 1993 film for the his Sid is one of those Cul polite bad who eats sushi and fastidiously brushes blood off his suit after Hes killed he even likes symphony though you dont want to know what he uses for instr Kelly Lynch pulls off the Obliga tory Beautiful woman As doctor due in part to the tremendous character in her As a criminal pay she Doest have much this int silence of the Sid May be fussy about his but As a serial killer Hes Slop random and completely lacking in personal and Hes not hard to track since he likes to take Large groups of people hostage and then get to drawing on director Brett leonards previous or out the Lawnmower virtuosity has some keen computer like the Ripples and glitches that Cue us to the fact that were not in an metro station but in a cyberspace theres also Dia Logue to Cue us into the fact were in the realm of virtual surrounded by cube business peo ple identically dressed in Grey flan Washington and his sidekick step off a train wearing ludicrous head Otoe sky Blue leather i cant get Over How different we says the maybe its the says washing film carries big Burden of yugoslav politics Porf thp1 pain to Washington mindless fun fast and full of explosive action and the Ideal family movie Caryn new York times before the rain is the first feature film to come out of which sounds like a High tech Hollywood studio but fact the acronym for the for Mer yugoslav Republic of Mace this Small country has so far avoided the bloody civil War of its bosnian neighbors but is nonetheless teetering on the Edge of an eth religious and nationalist Winner of the Golden lion award for Best picture a the 1994 Venice film rain carries a massive Burden of history and politics on its but this subtitled drama is essentially a Grace Ful Trio of related love stories that move around in no newtonian time and like Many movies coming out of the former user or by the Sun or to both of which have recently shown in Winnipeg Rains powerful sense of movies Alison Gillmor movie review before the rain directed by Milcho Manche ski cinematheque until 10 out of five existence being defined by suffer ing makes life in the West seem a bit so i feel quite Petty pointing to the Little problems that mar this humane the first Section is set in the Rocky Hills of present Day Mace a Beautiful but unforgiving where a moslem Alban Ian girl Labina Mitevski has taken Refuge in the room of a Young Monk who has taken a vow of played silently by French actor Gregoire Kiril has a face that is both heartbreakingly Young and As old As the 12thcentury Fres Coes that surround the second and least successful part of rain takes us to where Anne Karin who won awards for her role in naked must choose Between two one is a Mace donian news photographer who oozes slavic soul and should have a sign around his neck dangerous but the other is her hapless English who should be labelled Safe and respectable but Dull and probably not that Good in its not a fully realized and its by a shocking act of also seems Arifi the last Section of Howe is the strongest of As the photographer Aleksander played by Rade one of the bes known actors in the former Yugoslavia returns to his Home though theres a travelogue ish feel to much of the footage buses covered in coca cola signs passing wrinkled up ragged Mountain children wearing Donkey arts and semiautomatic weapons rain gives an indelible sense of life led close to the Edge of death and and who is himself exiled from his native gives a passionate portrayal of a Man who has passively recorded wars All his but who must now take to tragic Conse wow terrific for kids and anyone who Ever been a fed Good morning Aktiv twice the twice the 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