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 How to Tell That Harrison Ford is Alive Sep 14, 2007
You can tell that Harrison Ford is alive because his lips occasionally move. His face looks like it is carved in stone throughout the movie, no smiles, no sorrow, no happiness, just a death mask. His wife, and a congresswoman's husband die together in a plane crash. It turns out that they were having an affair. The bereft husband (Ford) and wife (Thomas) sort of fall in love. You sit through this movie constantly wondering why anyone would fall for the wooden Harrison Ford. Don't get me wrong, I like Harrison Ford, but in this flick his affectless performance makes John Wayne seem like Jerry Lewis.
So there you have it, a totally uninteresting romance. This is one movie where you do not see the newly in love couple romping through a flowery meadow. In fact it would be more likely to have Scott take Ford to a mortuary and have him embalmed.
Realizing that the audience will probably doze off from time to time, the director periodically livens things up by having Ford, a police officer, punch somebody out or threaten to kill someone. So that's it, a policeman with total face paralysis takes up with a Republican (in case that matters to you) Congresswoman and they do things together. What things? Well you know, sit on a park bench and eat sandwiches, fondle each other in a car, ransack the apartment where their ex spouses would have their trysts. Finally, the movie doesn't end; it just dies.
Oh, I might add that if you go to the Rotten Tomatoes web site you'll find that only 13% of the top critics found Random Hearts to be an interesting movie. I tend to agree with Todd McCarthy of Variety when he says, "Laborious, remote and strangely uninvolving."
 Private life does not mix with politics Sep 02, 2007
Politics and sex life do not work together very well in the USA as soon it gets off the very straight direct family-oriented lackluster public image politicians are supposed to respect down to the very last dot on the line. A supercop in Washington DC and a female representative in Congress from the state of New Hampshire get together due to the accident that drowns their spouses in a plane crash. This adultery on the side of the husband of the representative will ruin her life and career and the purely accidental and transient relation between the two survivors will become the only question that will seem important for the press. Something is wrong in this country and it has to be healed fast. The film shows the situation, its contradictions and the passion that will in fact be nothing but solace in a stressful moment with tact and great acting, with delicacy and an apology for the narrow-mindedness of the press and political system of a country which is supposed to be a democracy and does not guarantee the privacy of the private life of its politicians. That kind of wild hunting from some journalists is criminal and ten years ago it cost the life of Princess Diana under a bridge in Paris. That kind of trashy journalism should be outlawed and severely punished by our courts. The film seems clear about it: freedom still has a lot of battles to fight and win in our countries. The end of history is far from being close at hand.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Yes, it's depressing-that's what's great about it. Sep 26, 2006
It's also honest-something people avoid if things might get messy. People cheat-it happens every day. The lighting, music and slow pacing only accentuate the melacholy mood of the film. I love depressing movies-music too. There's no escaping the truth for these characters. It's painful. Betrayal always is-eventually. If you don't like depressing stuff, this movie will turn you off-even if you like the leads. Pollack's direction is perfect for the material-something I imagine he did on purpose. This is adult material-it's just that adults don't usually like to deal with difficult issues.
The two weak points of the film are the side story and the romance. The friendship between the two leads is believable-the romance is not. However, the film is so dreary that even these two items don't take away from the film's power. Marrying someone is no guarantee of fidelity. There is a darkness about humans that lies in their desire to please themselves-even at the cost of hurting the one they love most. That, and you will never really know the darkest recesses of the one you love 'til they rip your heart out and leave you "in the shadow of the light from a black sun".
1 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 disappointment!! Aug 31, 2006
I thought this movie was a big disappointment. Harrison Ford plays a widow who finds out his wife was on a plane with her lover when they both die in the crash. He wants to know why his wife had an affair and how could she have lied to him and how long and how serious...blah, blah. All he did was whine the entire movie. Also, he plays a police officer and not a very good one. This movie lacked substance and character.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
A real gem Aug 19, 2006
I really liked the movie and I don't understand why some people didn't like it. It shows the true emotions inside us and how we can be moved by extraordinary events in life. Harrison Ford is a gem of an actor. I also liked the acting of others. I think I'll watch it again.
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