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Taking Lives (2004)
Rate:
4
Viewed:
1/22
1/22:
How am I supposed to take Angelina Jolie seriously as an FBI agent when she has the lips of a slut (look at the movie poster
for what I mean)?
It's stupid when Taking Lives starts off with a John Lennon look-alike who'll be taken over by Ethan Hawke.
Hello...has anyone bothered seeing his films from the 80's and making sure the kid is close enough in resemblance?
Please...don't start with throwing in Kiefer Sutherland for a red herring; he has played psychos and killers for so long
that it has become old hat by now.
From the outset, when Ethan Hawke made his appearance in the interrogation room, I immediately had the mystery solved. His
character is the serial killer because he sounds too glib for a witness. Two things I would've done at this point are: (1)
Have him repeat the story over and over about what happened; and (2) Show the picture of him to the mother who claims to have
seen her long-lost son recently.
Unbelievably, neither happens, and I'm in for a long haul, eventually telling me what I knew already. It's just Angelina Jolie letting
her the slutty lips do the acting for the majority of the film with the wide open v-neck of her white blouse to pass for an
invitation for sex. Her chemistry with Ethan Hawke is nil before climaxing with a porn shot of Angelina Jolie's heavy breathing as
she exposes her breasts.
Of course, I knew Angelina Jolie's womb was fake given the enormous size and only wondered why her character didn't
hide a gun or a knife behind it while waiting for the serial killer to come. She being fluent in French is predictable
compared to how long the two detectives were speaking the language; the next thing I know, she'll have mastered Spanish
if Olivier Martinez was going to switch to it.
All in all, Taking Lives is a Seven wannabe that's immediately over before it starts.