25th Hour (2002)
In New York City in the days following the events of 9/11, Monty Brogan is a convicted drug dealer about to start a seven-year prison sentence, and his final hours of freedom are devoted to hanging out with his closest buddies and trying to prepare his girlfriend for his extended absence.
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Sorry, this movie sucks
Highly Overrated But Still Good
While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Seriously. This whole movie did not make any sense to me at all. If he was convicted and sentenced to prison for seven years, then they would have immediately taken him into custody so he would NEVER have the chance to potentially run away (as his dad even suggests to him late in the movie). I do not get this AT ALL!
Movie Review: "25th Hour" (2002)In arguable director Spike Lee's most accomplished as satisfying motion picture by interpreting an self-adapted screenplay by David Benioff, known also for creating as adapting fantasy books by George R.R. Martin for HBO exhibition "Game of Thrones", comes this crime-drama in the wake of two towers down in New York City fall of 2001, following the drug-dealing character of Monty Brogan and his close-to-faithful girlfriend Naturelle Riviera, in match-making as beautiful to watch character-performances by Edward Norton and Rosario Dawson, when the director conditions all supporting cast members including the protagonist's closest circle of club-party-making friends played by scene-owning Barry Pepper, down-on-luck seconds after "Boogie Nights" Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014), hitting on 17-year-old minor-mimicking actress Anna Paquin, in overall heart-breaking scenes of inevitable honesty from hard-hitting New Yorkers, who want to be more then there are able to perform in life in another microscopic cinematic approach accompanied by breathtaking cinematography from lighting cameraman Rodrigo Prieto, working on classic 35mm filmstock under minimalistic budgetary conditions toward a prevailing picture of full impact; charged with hope in favor for an universal human condition in a better world presented by daring Buena Vista affiliate Touchstone Pictures in holiday season 2002/2003 open for revisits.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)
First of all, the soundtrack!! What a soundtrack! You could spend a great moment with only that soundtrack. Second, there are many tiny moments where it feels as good as a Shakespeare's play. Like that moment in the toilet where Monty is talking to himself. And what you realize at the end of the movie. I think it is an awesome movie with a great opening and a great ending, with an amawing way to fold both the opening and the ending together. I am truly hesitating giving it a 10! Seriously!
I won't give away any spoilers or any real details because as this movie went along at the end if each boring segment I just wanted to forget I wasted that time of my life on this easily forgettable movie. The only character for whom I felt any sympathy was the dog Doyle. Because being a dog he is the only one that was an innocent. It's a story about a scumbag drug dealer with scumbag friends and trashy girlfriend. The only characters they go out of their way trying to make you hate are the DEA agents. Typical Spike Lee crap movie told from the perspective of someone who identifies better with criminals than law abiding citizens.