| A married
couple and his best friend are in serious debt to some
loan sharks. She has an old college friend who once told
her that she could earn 10 grand by making a delivery for
him. The delivery, of course, is illegal drugs. The old
friend has a few last minute wrinkles. First, he wants
them to follow his routes, and to be at pay-phone
checkpoints at prescribed times, and second, he wants one
of the three to stay as a hostage. The wife is the one to
stay, so our two heros start off from Amsterdam to Spain
with a back seat full of $34 million worth of ecstasy.
They are barely out of site when a VW falls off an
overpass in front of them, nearly hitting them. Out jumps
Aurélie, who convinces them to take her and her
seriously injured companion to get help. |
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Getting help, however,
is just a ruse. She really wants to stop a political
assassination that a group she was a member of is
planning. They arrive too late, the boyfriend dies of his
injuries, and Aurélie and our two heroes are now the
targets of Interpol, the radicals, and God knows who
else. This film has wit, energy, pace, acting, beautiful
scenery, and got my pulse rate up more than once. |
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The People
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votes ... IMDB summary: IMDb voters
score it 5.8, Apollo users 50/100. These
scores are consistent with the critics.
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| IMDb
guideline: 7.5 usually indicates a level of
excellence, about like three and a half stars
from the critics. 6.0 usually indicates lukewarm
watchability, about like two and a half stars
from the critics. The fives are generally not
worthwhile unless they are really your kind of
material, about like two stars from the critics.
Films under five are generally awful even if you
like that kind of film, equivalent to about one
and a half stars from the critics or less,
depending on just how far below five the rating
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