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Honestly, "Tape" blew me away. It happens every once in a while with me. I rent a movie that I know is going to be good, yet I'm still not that excited about it. Then I go home and watch it, and I am intoxicated by it. "Tape" isnt for everyone(!), but for the fans out there who appreciate character-driven stories, go..go now...and check out this film.
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Gotta give this one kudos for doing so much with so little. With one fairly bare set and three leads there's not much room for cover if/when things go wrong. For the most part, things go well. The idea is interesting, and the dialogue sounds pretty true. Leonard and Thurman turn in decent performances. Hawke reaches the most, and for that reason ends with the highest highs and the lowest lows. He occasionally allows menace to metamorphose into whininess, at which point his voice (and the film itself) are difficult to bear. The script also loses its bearing a little toward the finish line. Leonard's reaction to Thurman is difficult to understand or at least fully believe. Be that as it may, Tape is an interesting film, flaws and all.
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This was a one-act play that became a feature-length screenplay, that was shot on DV. You can't turn away from this great piece of writing/"film" - if you're looking for Independence Day - then go rent it. This is quality all the way. Ethan, Uma, and Robert are superb.
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What can I say, this is quite possibly the worst movie I've ever seen. Are you people insane? Great change of atmosphere? They were in the same damn room the whole time. Amazing and realistic dialog? Who talks like this? No one, absolutely no one. Why, how, what..that's the whole script. Why indeed.
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Oftentimes when you get a few famous people together for a small digital picture, it winds up being a vanity project without much value (e.g., The Anniversary Party). This movie, however, works. Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard play two high-school pals whose lives have taken radically different paths. They reunite in a Michigan hotel room, which is where the entire movie takes place. Both actors do a good job--they're just natural enough to make you feel that you're really spying on a private conversation. In particular, Ethan Hawke--of whom I've never been a fan in the past--plays a role radically different from anything he's done before and pulls it off fantastically. The film does a great job of exploring how complicated friendships can be, and also generates some humor and suspense. My only complaint is that Linklater chose Uma Thurman to play another high-school friend who shows up later in the movie. Obviously, the fact that she's Hawke's wife made her a convenient choice, but she's not exactly a master thespian, and her presence adds a Hollywood gloss that she seems unable to overcome and that's seriously out of place in this film. However, this flaw aside, "Tape" is definitely a fascinating, unique movie, one I can imagine watching again and again. If only more cinematic experiments worked out so well. By the way--although it doesn't seem to be listed here, this DVD does contain audio commentary by both Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater.
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