Review of A Simple Plan (1998) by Patrick S — 10 Aug 2008
Sam Raimi is a director who's output can very in quality quite wildly. His Spider-man films have ranged from classic to catastrophe and the same goes for his suspense thrillers. What The Gift lacked in tension and direction, Simple Plan has no problems with at all.
This is a masterful, edge of the seat thriller about the greed that consumes three men and one woman when they find a bag full of money in a crashed plane. Rather than focussing on the easy route of "Some people fine some money and someone comes looking for it" which the film could so easily have taken, the picture shifts the attention to the characters and the internal turmoil that encompasses them as a result of their haul.
Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton and Bridget Fonda are all excellent, especially Paxton and Fonda as the morally upstanding, hard working couple who's principles are quickly jettisoned when face with 4.3 million dollars.
The film continues to deliver surprises right into it's seemingly predictable final reel and makes for a bleak but powerfully compelling movie.
This review of A Simple Plan (1998) was written by Patrick S on 10 Aug 2008.
A Simple Plan has generally received very positive reviews.
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