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Fled Movie Review
Actors
Laurence Fishburn, William Baldwin, Salma Hayek, Will Patton, Michael Nader
Movie Review
A standard run of the mill type film that I really can't understand how it managed to get an actor of the calibre of Laurence Fishburne. I guess it just goes to show that some stories are better as a script rather than put on celluloid. The story follows a couple of prison escapees just outside of Atlanta Georgia who escape whilst on a prison work detail. Do they still have these kinds of work gangs diggin ditches? Would it be better to put then to work on something meaningful and beneficial to the community and leave the ditch digging to the excavators and other machinery? Anyway, it is the usual tale of undercover cops, local, state and federal agents working with each other all on a need to know basis and not really telling each other anything.
Michael Nader makes an appearance and it's funny because he also popped up in a episode of Magnum PI from the first season that I watched this week. The latter was before his career was enhanced by his character in the television show Dynasty. I've always liked him and think he plays a smooth business man very well, either as a good guy or a bad guy.
Selma Hayek is the token female and doesn't really do a lot other than share a few scenes with the two leads. Her character is way to accommodating of the escapees and doesn't seem at all frightened by them. Just not right in my opinion.
Was William Baldwin's haircut the real reason he was in jail? It was just plain criminal...
Quotes
I'm Cuban. But I have an affinity for all cultures. Part of my Mongol upbringing on the streets of New York.
Useless Information
Will Paton and Delroy Lindo (uncredited in Fled) were both in Gone In Sixty Seconds.
This movie review was published on 04 Nov 2004, by James
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