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Forever Mine (1999)
Rate:
5
Viewed:
11/18
11/18:
Sometimes, there are movies that make it virtually impossible for me to suspend my disbelief, and Forever Mine is one
of them.
This would occur the first moment that Esquema/Alan Riply showed up at the doorstep and Ella Brice didn't recognize him. How
could it be if she slept with probably two men in her lifetime? Had Esquema turned his head sideways to show off his unscarred
face, he would look exactly the same as he did in Miami about fifteen years earlier.
Having initially picked up Forever Mine just for Ray Liotta, he barely makes waves and is rather tame. Instead, it's all
Joseph Fiennes who's obviously mimicking Robert De Niro's mannerisms from
The Godfather Part II. Somewhere along the
way, Gretchen Mol, whose character never ages for a minute after fifteen years, makes her beauty known. Once upon a time, Vincent
Laresca was Radames in Juice.
In the meantime, everybody tries hard to make me believe the setting takes place during the 70's or the 80's, but it never
works. The storyline is redundant, and the plot twist is impossible to swallow.
All in all, c'mon, Paul Schrader...you can do better than this, having written well-regarded screenplays for
American Gigolo and Raging Bull.