![]() ![]() ![]() And then after a while, I won’t have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while.” 18 Then after a while, I won’t have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out. Sam: “I’m gonna get out of bed every morning … breathe in and out all day long. Woman on airplane: “Don’t you just hate flying?”Īnnie: “Yes, I do, and I just told the most terrible one to the man I’m about to marry. I just want somebody I can have a decent conversation with over dinner.” 16 Sam: “I’m not looking for a mail-order bride. What are you gonna do when you get up there? Spit off the top?” Sam: “I am not going to New York to meet some woman who could be a crazy, sick lunatic. Walter (Bill Pullman): “Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it.” 13 Sam: “Of what? Her first name could be Doctor.” 12 Jonah Baldwin (Ross Malinger): “Talk to her, dad. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match.”Ĭo-worker: “It’s easier to be killed by a terrorist than it is to find a husband over the age of 40.”īecky: “That’s right, it’s not true. You don’t want to be in love, you want to be in love in a movie.” 8īecky: “Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it’s our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.” 9ĭennis Reed (David Hyde Pierce): “Annie, when you’re attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. It was…”īecky (Rosie O'Donnell): “.a movie. That’s your problem. They knew it! Time, distance nothing could separate them because they knew. #Sleepless town 1080p how to#What do they call it when everything intersects?”Īnnie: “Now that was when people knew how to be in love. Jay (Rob Reiner): “Well, this is fate! She’s divorced, we don’t want to redo the cabinets, and you need a wife. ![]() It was like magic.” 5Īnnie Reed: “You make a million decisions that mean nothing, and then one day you order take-out and it changes your life.” 6 I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew it. It was like coming home, only to no home I’d ever known. A lengthy running time and derivative nature of the plot also work against this film, meaning that I didn't think much of it at all.Sam Baldwin (Hanks): “It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together, and I knew it. Yamamoto fails to make her repulsive lead in the least bit likable and suffers because of that, while the excellent Eric Tsang is underused as the mob boss, appearing in all of three short scenes. Kaneshiro is a good actor, but his character isn't given a great deal to do here and comes across as a little staid. I found the last scene to be overlong and devoid of the badly needed emotion it sought to generate, but at least something's going on, unlike in the middle section. Then things pick up in the last half hour, with lots of action and shoot-outs and more twists and turns than in five regular Hollywood movies. ![]() The pacing slows down to a snail's crawl while this romance is explored, and the filmmakers do attempt to generate some suspense by keeping their character motivations murky, but it doesn't work very well. For the next hour we're treated to a lifeless romance with one of the most worthless female characters I've seen in a film. Unfortunately, Kaneshiro's character then meets a girl, and the whole film falls flat. The first half hour follows this type of plot with some stylish direction and another solid performance from Takeshi Kaneshiro, who once again delivers a 'quiet but cool' type character with emotions bubbling just under the surface. This Hong Kong/Japan co-production starts out as a traditional gangster thriller, as we meet our youthful hero and find himself caught between opposing sides: a violent criminal gang from Shanghai, who frequently employ torture and murder as their methods, and a lone gunman with psychotic tendencies. Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 4 / 10 Promising crime drama let down by a boring romance Meanwhile, Fu-Chun's girlfriend, Natsumi Sato turns up to sell something to Kenichi. Yuan wants to get even and attempts to do so by using Kenichi. Things are calm, however, his former partner-in-crime, Fu-Chun, is rumored to have returned to Kabukicho, having fled years earlier after killing the number two to gangland boss, Yuan. His domain is in Kabukicho, a gangland controlled by various Shanghainese gangs intent on taking overall control. You can sell him anything except children's organs. Kenichi is a half-Japanese, half-Chinese man of the underworld. ![]()
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