Sunday, December 02, 2007
"The Nines".
Ryan Reynolds is Gary, a slightly dim and befuddled actor, under house arrest.
Ryan Reynolds is Gavin, a gay writer, trying to get his TV pilot picked up by the network.
Ryan Reynolds is Gabriel, a games designer, trying to get a signal so that he can make a call on his mobile phone.
Who are all of these people and why do they all look like Ryan Reynolds?
It's an almost impossible task to review "The Nines" without the risk of spoilers, so I am not going to try. It would be a vile crime against one of the best films of the year for any spoilers to be aired here. So, in the vaguest possible terms I can muster, "The Nines" is about alternative realities, games, God, TV, friendship, betrayal, drugs, family life and numbers.
"The Nines" is a brilliant piece of work, in the tradition of the fractured storytelling of movies like David Lynch's "Lost Highway" and "Mulholland Drive". It is a true jigsaw puzzle of a movie and will leave you scratching your head and wanting more. Great performances from Ryan Reynolds (who would have thought it?), Hope Davis (expected) and Melissa McCarthy (never heard of her).
I thought that "The Nines" was a really great film. Straight into my top 10 of the best films of 2007.
Ryan Reynolds is Gary, a slightly dim and befuddled actor, under house arrest.
Ryan Reynolds is Gavin, a gay writer, trying to get his TV pilot picked up by the network.
Ryan Reynolds is Gabriel, a games designer, trying to get a signal so that he can make a call on his mobile phone.
Who are all of these people and why do they all look like Ryan Reynolds?
It's an almost impossible task to review "The Nines" without the risk of spoilers, so I am not going to try. It would be a vile crime against one of the best films of the year for any spoilers to be aired here. So, in the vaguest possible terms I can muster, "The Nines" is about alternative realities, games, God, TV, friendship, betrayal, drugs, family life and numbers.
"The Nines" is a brilliant piece of work, in the tradition of the fractured storytelling of movies like David Lynch's "Lost Highway" and "Mulholland Drive". It is a true jigsaw puzzle of a movie and will leave you scratching your head and wanting more. Great performances from Ryan Reynolds (who would have thought it?), Hope Davis (expected) and Melissa McCarthy (never heard of her).
I thought that "The Nines" was a really great film. Straight into my top 10 of the best films of 2007.
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