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| Product DescriptionAcademy AwardŽ nominee Joaquin Phoenix Mark Ruffalo and Academy AwardŽ winners Jennifer Connelly and Mira Sorvino deliver riveting performances in the gripping thriller Reservation Road. A powerful human story of anger revenge and great courage this film takes you on an intense journey that follows two fathers as their families and lives converge after the events of one fateful night. "Suspenseful emotional and completely engrossing" (Pete Hammond Maxim) Reservation Road is "a deft satisfying thriller" (Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly).System Requirements:Running Time: 103 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 025193344823 Manufacturer No: 62033448 - Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Elle Fanning, Jennifer Connelly, Mark Ruffalo, Samuel Ryan Finn
- Director: Terry George
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
- Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language (Original Language): English
- Language (Subtitled): English
- Language (Subtitled): French
- Language (Subtitled): Spanish
- Language (Dubbed): French
- Region Code: 1
- Release Date: 2008-04-08
- Running Time: 103 minutes
- Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Customer ReviewsReviewed on 2008-06-23  
Existential and engrossing thriller!
"Reservation road" is by far one of the most gripping and tense thrillers of the year. The previous similar movie that I keep in mind was the unforgettable classic of Claude Chabrol: "This man must die" .
A fateful night, an unpleasant and disgraced incident will join the lives of two well different families, and so the anger, despair and pain will involve the heart and minds of these uncomfortable parents. In this order of ideas, and after having lost the patience and faith in the judicial system the next step of this troubled father will be to go for legal advise, and so the destiny will gather the prey and hunter face to face.
All the cast was terrific but Jennifer Connelly steals the show . her forceful and demanding performance overpasses the well known limits of the used to become a true reference pattern.
Watch her for instance, at the moment her husband refers her about the incident of the fireflies and observe carefully the dramatic progression of her facial aspects; or the brief but intense dialogue with him at the moment she wants to give all the things of her beloved son.
So, you will have not only a vibrant and riveting thriller, but a first -class performance and a careful camera work all the way through, that will involve you from start to finish.
Absolutely recommended.
|  | Reviewed on 2008-06-04
nothing new
Reservation Road. Where a child, Josh Learner, was killed in a hit-and-run. The story of the father Ethan (J. Phoenix), trying to get justice in his hands because the cops aren't finding who did it. So he hires a lawyer Dwight Arno (M. Ruffalo) to help him with his case.........
Nothing new here. That story has been done many many many times. However, the acting is superb, I really enjoyed Phoenix for once, and Mark Ruffalo is just great. Jennifer Connelly as Ethan's wife is perfect.
The script makes the events a little too "coincidental" for my taste. And the story was pretty predictable.
Still worth watching once.
| | Reviewed on 2008-05-27
Interesting Story Line, More Like 3.7 Stars
I liked this movie. The story line held my interest. While I agree with the acting abilities, I think there could have been more to this movie. I think the ending could have been better as well.
Worth watching. | | Reviewed on 2008-05-22
Reservation Road to Boredom
This movie has three plot points that could be covered in fifteen minutes. The rest is filler. There is no real character development; no twists in the story. Nobody changes. The characters get stressed - that's all. Take out one swear word and this is a Lifetime movie. A waste of fine acting talent. A waste of time watching it. | | Reviewed on 2008-05-19
An extraordinarily predictable film that's almost saved by great acting
[ No spoilers, I promise. ]
I was persuaded to rent this film on the strength of the cast, and the reviews on the box as well. And I wasn't disappointed in the cast; Mark Ruffalo and Jennifer Connelly were at the top of their form, and though Joaquin Phoenix was out of his league he delivered one of his best performances as well.
The problem was the script and story itself. I watched this film with a friend, and we came to it completely fresh; neither of us had read the book, seen the previews, or read anything on the box outside of the review blurbs. We had no idea what it was even about, beyond the title. Nevertheless we were able to predict every single major event and several not-so-major plot points well in advance--so much so that in one case we were able to predict the very dialogue that would be delivered before we heard it. I can't recall any other film I've seen that was as formulaic and obvious as this one.
As transparent as the story was, it was also artificial, forcing the characters into actions and statements that simply were not in character. It's a testament to the quality of the cast that they were able to rise above some of the awkward, scripted dialogue they were given, but nonetheless it was like watching great dancers being forced to perform in straitjackets. I should say that not all (or even a majority) of the dialogue was as broken as that, but it was frequent enough to further undercut the forced and predictable story.
A final note: this film has a pronounced political agenda that's telegraphed quite jarringly in a few instances. This wasn't the source of my (or my friend's) deep dissatisfaction with the film, since it only became apparent after we'd seen the first few plot elements coming a mile away (literally, in one case) and had hit some of the potholes in the dialogue, and so our expectations were already plummeting. But in retrospect it was clear that this agenda was what lay behind some of the contrived plotting. It's a rare film or book that can rise above this kind of directed manipulation of the characters, and Reservation Road certainly wasn't one of those few.
So in short, this is a flawed and utterly predictable film, with wonderful performances that almost--but not quite--redeem it enough to make it worth the investment of time. | |
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