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Saturday, March 23, 2019

Limbo (1999)

An American drama directed by John Sayles, starring David Strathairn.
A woman works at a bar as a singer and her daughter is working on being a writer. They both fall in love with a manual laborer in the small town where they live. The man's brother is a drug dealer and when all 4 of them go out on a boat, the brother is killed and the other 3 are stranded on an island.
Crappy. I should have turned it off. Let's start with audio because that was the worst. This woman's voice was horrible and the songs she was singing were stereotypical, mediocre crap. The scene in the pickup truck included the loud roaring of the engine, which did not add to the film in any way. It was just annoying. The plot took so long to get moving that I was bored within the first few minutes and stayed so until an hour and 12 minutes of the 2 hour duration. Considering that this film is a pile of crap and nobody should watch it, I feel no remorse about spoiling the plot. When the main characters are shipwrecked, the daughter is "reading" from a blank diary. This was revealed too late to make her stop, but too early for it to be correctly dramatic. The adults just sit there and continue listening as she makes up more stories for 1 scene. Why? The inconclusive plot is another point that I would like to point out. An airplane is coming toward the island. It could be the brother's drug dealer friends coming to exterminate witnesses or it could be someone to rescue these people. I would like to think that it was the former. I rate this shit because I should have turned it off instead of watching the whole, stupid thing. I would recommend this for those who like Ben Hur (1959), Some Kind of Monster (2004) and The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987).

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