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Arlington Road
Arlington Road is a moderately paced thriller about a professor of
history, a man with a pet course on catching terrorists, who suspects
that he neighbour is planning to bomb something. He digs into the
neighbour's past and discovers things that lead him on a chase to find
the truth but what that is seems totally up in the air. The story
starts on a wide circling path that slowly begins to corkscrew tighter
and tighter. Is it all for real or is the professor just fuelling
his own paranoia caused by his intimacy with the lives of famous
terrorists.
Arlington Road is well directed, fairly engaging through the slow
build up, and pretty exciting when it all comes together. As a
matter of preference the blurry scenes in the beginning while apt are
distracting and thankfully end before too long. Jeff Bridges is
excellent as the professor but Tim Robbins seems flat in comparison as
the suspcioned neighbour. Overall though the movie is well
scripted and does not disappoint. If there is one serious gripe
to be had it would be the insistence of portraying women as reality
revisionists and men as incapable of dropping a topic; a paired
stereotype that so terribly pervades these types of films.
Arlington Road's visuals are ho hum as with a lot of films.
Nothing stands out to say that yeah this aspect of a visually
defined media was important. However those who do not pay
attention will not see anything amiss. As to the musical score it
is properly maintained throughout the film and fulfils its role well.
Despite the criticisms above this is a good movie and well worth
the time and heightened pulse rate.
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Bob Male)
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