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Sommersby (1993)
Rate:
5
Viewed:
6/16
6/16:
Sommersby gets my vote as one of the weirdest and dumbest movies made.
There's nothing grotesque going on. It's just that there's a twist requires an insane amount of suspension of disbelief
from me. When the revelation came, I was like, "What...?" So, nobody in the town can spot an imposter within seconds of
meeting the fake Jack Sommersby? When the wife accepted him as her husband, it's when I knew she had gone cuckoo. The
only plausible reason for it is that Richard Gere was twice voted the Sexiest Man Alive.
James Earl Jones as the black judge in the South one year after the end of the Civil War is a "YEAH, RIGHT" moment. Also,
there's no way a brooch was worth $1,000 by then. If true, it would've been immediately sold for the cause during the war.
Also, there's no way Jack was full of meat post-Civil War because many returning Southerners struggled with severe hunger.
Richard Gere is awful and too modern-looking for the time. Jodie Foster is worse and can't act to save her life. They have
no chemistry which is mostly Jodie Foster's fault because she's frigid. Hence, I spit on her whenever she claims to be
an actress.
All in all, Jodie Foster should be blamed for the failure of Sommersby.