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A SCREAMFEST
"Freedonland" starts off on the
right track, then somehow it makes a left turn on the wrong tracks.
JULIANNE MOORE is a mother who screams and cries that she has been
carjacked by a black man. She claims he threw her out of the car and
took off not knowing that her four year old son was sleeping in the
back seat. As we meet her in the emergency room of the local
hospital, sporting cuts and bruises, we hear her story. SAMUEL L.
JACKSON (one of my favorite actors) is the cop who shows up to get
her story. This is where the screamfest starts. They yell and
scream at each other so much it's hard to tell what they are
saying. As this is going on, there is racial tension between the
white cops and the blacks in the projects where Moore works with
kids at a care center. Sorry to say that all this resolves nothing,
makes no sense, and really hurts the ears. Director JOE ROTH
("Black Hawk Down") gives us one of the big cop out endings that we
have been seeing lately. Ther must be a book that contains stupid
cop out endings for movie makers who don't know what to do when they
get to three quarters of their film. SEE YA AT THE MOVIES
CLYDE
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