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Director Sidney Pollack has a small part here as Secret Service agent Sean Penn's boss. Penn and his female partner are investigating the allegations of a beautiful Africn born U.N. interpreter played by Nicole Kidman. One night she overhears what sounds like an assasination mplot against an Africn dignatary soon to make a speech at the U.N. This is a big deal for the Secrte Service as the U.S. would suffer enormously if a foreign representative were killed on out soil, especially if that dignatary is one we don't care for. Like Pollack's "Three Says of the Condor" this is a taut thriller, beautifully paced, and well acted. It kept me guessing until the end. Recommended.
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...and while it was a compelling thriller with excellent performances by Kidman and Penn, it ultimately left me feeling a little unsatisfied. Upon reflection, I realized it lacked an emotional connection - I didn't really care what happened to either character. I'd give it a B.
that horrible "acting" job in "Eyes Wide Shut?"
3 Days remains an excellent film that has stood the test of time and then some.
The comments Cliff Robertson's character makes to Redford's at the end is priceless, something to the effect that people don't care HOW their gov't. has to provide for them, just as long as it (petroleum in this case) is done.
Iraq is proof positive.
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The Way We Were pretty good credentials... IMHO...he is one of the best of his era still working in Hollywood...
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But strongly disagree on the others.
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...where I believe he was portraying the Devil - was adequate. Read Jonathan Valin's excellent review of the film in "The Perfect Vision" if you can find the back issue.Valin also wrote one of the best reviews and most coherant explanations of Lynch's "Mullholland Drive" I've read.
I for one didn't think he was all that bad in the Kubick film.
But I was a bit disappointed with "Interpreter". Found it a bit too jumbled in the plot department. I did appreciate Penn's performance--best of the lot.Small continuity potatoes: in one scene Penn was interviewing Kidman and everytime the edit came back to her, her hair was in a different place on her forehead. That immediately poked me in the eye. That's the disadvantage of those freepflowing, floppy hairsytles.
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