Review of Silver Streak (1976) by Julie R — 24 Aug 2004

[b]Timeline (2003) [/b].

I liked this more than I had expected to. Despite some plot holes and flaws in logic, it's an entertaining little popcorn flick.

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Silver Streak (1976).

[/b]Nice comedy from the 70's. I hadn't seen this in years. It's held up pretty well. Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder were so good together. It's hard to get to the bottom of what's happened on the train when they keep getting thrown off of it. Good fun.

[b]The Apartment (1960)[/b].

One of Billy Wilder's best. Jack Lemon has an apartment that he loans to his supervisors at work for their extra-curricular activities. It works fine until the apartment starts to control his life. Nice work from Lemon and Shirley Maclaine.

[b]Spartan (2004)[/b].

Pretty good thriller from David Mamet, though not as good as some of his previous films. Val Kilmer, not one of my favorite actors, is about as good here as I've seen him. Kilmer is a government special ops guy assigned to recover the kidnapped daughter of a high-level government official - maybe the president, but it's never stated. But things aren't as they seem, he discovers. After the surprise revelation mid-way through, the movie bogs down as it changes course and plays out its predictable finale.

[b]The Trouble with Harry (1955)[/b].

A young Shirley Maclaine starred in this Hitchcock comedy. Harry is dead, and the trouble with him is how he got that wasy and what to do with him. Not brilliant, but amusing.