Year:
2001
Production:
Warner Brothers
Morgan Creek
Franchise Pictures
Feature:
3/5
DVD:
3/5
Angel Eyes is a dramatic romance about two messed up people who are
fated to meet. It stars Jennifer Lopez as Chicago police officer Sharon
Pogue who is saved by a wandering bystander, Catch played by James
Caviezel. Catch is a simple guy with no past that he cares to think
about.
Sharon is drawn to Catch and his unpretentiousness. But the closer she
tries to get to him the more evasive he is. Finally she finds out his
real name and then uses the police resources to find out the tragedy
that Catch is hiding from. A tragedy that she happened to witness as
one of the officers on the scene.
I thought the movie was ok. The performances were good. It's just the
story wasn't satisfying. We have Sharon and the problems with her
family. We have Catch and his tragedy. By the end of the movie there is
some amount of reconciliation on Sharon's subplot and some amount of
closure in Catch's subplot and they both drive off into the sunset.
But it's not a "we're in love" driving off into the sunset. It's a
"let's start over and see what happens" ending. It wasn't definite
enough to be a conclusive ending. That's pretty much my biggest
disappointment with the movie.
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Extras
There is a commentary track by director Luis Mandoki. About an average
commentary and he had some good anecdotes. There is nothing else
significant on the DVD.
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