5ive Days to Midnight
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Release Date: 19-AUG-2005
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5ive Days to Midnight
this is a whatever movie i bought it cause it had good reviews but i just found it kind of boring i think it def needed a better cast
Rating: 2 / 5
I thought that I had a better review for this mini-series, but it looks like I may have shut it away in the trash vault. So, for just this one I am going to give you the short, short version of what I witnessed. 5ive Days to Midnight was one of those classic mini-series that probably did very well while on television in keeping the suspense high and the anticipation even higher, but when it transferred onto DVD it didn’t succeed as well. When one has the opportunity to watch this series from beginning to end within the course of one day, the excitement and momentum slowly decreases. Let me be more exact.
The first three episodes were great. It was this beautifully mixed bag of drama and sci-fi that I know the Sci-Fi channel has a firm grip on. It kept me guessing and wondering what would happen next. I couldn’t quite figure out exactly how all the pieces were going to fit together and it was enjoyable, then you put the second disc in and watch the final two episodes and everything going for this film goes down the toilet. The final two episodes are nothing but filler and the ironically planned confusing ending. I felt that these final two episodes just did not react well with the first three, there seemed to be something genuinely missing from all of this. It was as if the creators had the horse running at full speed at first, then allowed it to gallop into the final lap. It lost momentum, speed, and thrill when the second disc hit my DVD player.
The acting was decent with Quaid proving why the “TV” niche is his best friend. Hutton could have done a bit better, portraying this struggling victim to this predestined crime, but instead I think he realized this was “television” and went with some sub-par skills. While the acting was just average all around, I was o.k. with that, it was the story that I was hoping to get most of my strength from. Sadly, the story was good, but not great. There were huge, gaping plot holes that just were never covered or corrected. When you are doing a time traveling film like this, you need this to make a coherent statement. It is like writing a paper without using any punctuation, you don’t know where to stop or end and it ends up a jumbled mess. That is what happened with the final two episodes, the jumbled mess caught up to the creators and there was only one way to stop it … clichés and unoriginality.
Overall, I was impressed to begin this series, but by the end, I had lost it completely. The fourth day is nothing but filler, and that set the mood well off for the final day. What began as this very interesting time travel drama/murder/mystery eventually turned into a regular program that you could find on any station. Something happened, and as we the viewers may never know, those involved do. I suggest to everyone checking out the first disc while leaving the second behind. If you need to know how it ends, forget about it. The first three days will leave a better taste in your mouth than the final two days, and overall you will feel better (even if you don’t know how it ends!)
Grade: *** out of *****
Rating: 3 / 5
MAN, LIONS GATE JUST SEEMS TO KEEP ON RELEASING SOME GREAT HORROR MOVIES! ALTHOUGH THIS AIMS FOR A LITTLE MORE SCI-FI, THERE ARE SOME GREAT THRILLS TO BE FOUND. THE STORY IS ABOUT A GUY WHO FINDS A BRIEF CASE FROM THE FUTURE, AND INSIDE IS THE CASE REPORT OF HIS OWN MURDER! AND HE HAS ABOUT A WEEK TO SOLVE HIS OWN CASE, TO KEEP IT FROM HAPPENING! THE STORY IS GREAT! VERY ORIGINAL! THE ACTING IS ALSO GREAT! RANDY QUAID PLAYS HIS PART VERY WELL! THERE IS ALSO A SURPRISE ENDING! IT’S VERY HARD TO FIGURE OUT WHO THE KILLER IS! EVEN THOUGH THIS PROGRAM IS OVER FOUR HOURS, THE MOVIE DOES NOT DRAG AT ALL BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS DONE SO WELL, THE ACTING, FILMING, DIRECTING, EVERYTHING JUST WORKED FOR ME IN THIS MOVIE! AGAIN FOR YOU ART HOUSE HORROR, AND HITCHCOCK FANS THIS IS ONE WILL ENJOY! FOR THE CHEAP THRILLS HORROR FANS, THE GARBAGE FILLED STINKER VAN HELSING SHOULD BE RIGHT UP YOUR ALLEY! 5IVE DAYS TO MIDNIGHT IS A FIVE STAR MOVIE ALL THE WAY! IT’S GREAT!
Rating: 5 / 5
5IVE DAYS TO MIDNIGHT is one of my favorite TV miniseries. Like ROOTS or HOLOCAUST it is best seen on TV, with the days spread apart, so that you can build up some excitement about seeing the next part, but on DVD you can kind of glom everything together; indeed you don’t even have to watch the show in order–*though I would highly advise it.* If you don’t, the story is too confusing.
On SciFi you’d be watching “Monday’s” episode on a Monday; it was cleverly done and you couldn’t wait till Tuesday! Tim Hutton isn’t my favorite actor, but he did a fine job in this as the doomed professor. And fun to see him with Kari Matchett as the two co-stars of NERO WOLFE are matchless together. Watching Hutton break into the briefcase and find his obituary was chilling and you wanted to think that there must be some mistake, some loophole, some way in which he could survive the next five days. I was thinking, well, he has the same name as his daughter (I mean the same initials, her name is Jesse) maybe the daughter is the one who is going to die? She was only ten or so, but because the story is all about time travel it was easy to think, maybe she grew up and became a professor like her dad? And that is whom the briefcase was addressed to! The one in the car from PULP FICTION! The show also references the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, which also occurred ten years prior to the events of 5IVE DAYS TO MIDNIGHT, making you think a little bit, your restless brain searching for some solution, some tie up, of history’s loose threads.
In a way the briefcase reminded me of the famous attache case in PULP FICTION, said to contain someone’s soul-remember that? Ten years ago, so right around the birth of little Jesse? Lovely Nicole De Boer is in the movie too, from CUBE, and STAR TREK ENTERPRISE, she’s a regular SciFi channel regular. You may not know who she is from her name, but once you see her face it’s an assurance that the quality science fiction product you are watching was filmed in Canada.
Randy Quaid is pretty good, although I found myself wondering why the producers couldn’t have found someone who mumbled less. I could barely make out what he was saying half the time as “Irwin” launched into one topic after another. He was pretty much the most important character in the story, too, as the man charged with figuring out the solution to the homicide. If you’ve seen the classic noir thriller D.O.A., with Edmond O’Brien, you’ve already anticipated much of what is interesting about this miniseries. Remade later in the 1980s with Dennis Quaid, Randy’s brother, as the dead man walking, D.O.A. similarly opened with a man reading his own death sentence.
Rating: 5 / 5
Except for the obvious scene splices where commercials were removed, this was a good piece of entertainment. The
acting was good, the plot good, as was the video effects. The length allowed several sub-plots time to develop.
Well worth it.
Rating: 4 / 5