Written by James M. Tate / 12/26/2016 / No comments / comedy , disease , drama , jack nicholson , morgan freeman , rob reiner , zeroes
JACK NICHOLSON & MORGAN FREEMAN IN THE BUCKET LIST
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Jack and Morgan's perspective of an unreachable mountain YEAR: 2008 |
Right from the start, in THE BUCKET LIST, the number of times a medical board member gives each other knowing, untrusting glances while Jack's character... a millionaire who owns privatized hospitals... stands, or rather, sits lazily on some kind of hearing against him, this is the sign of director Rob Reiner, begging the audience to agree that Jack is (at first) up to no damn good: What's important is that his Alpha Male tycoon is the polar opposite of the trivia whiz mechanic played by Morgan Freeman...
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Jack Nicholson reaching out |
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Morgan Freeman |
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Jack and Morgan deal with a little snag along the journey |
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Jack fires in Africa BUCKET LIST Score: ***1/2 |
Despite the fact we are in the actual locations, the fact remains: these guys could be anywhere... Meanwhile, they never get too deep for the film to be pretentious, nor does it fall into the usual saccharine torture of the usual Dying-Of-A-Disease-Melodrama, which, unlike this cinematic day at the beach, can be extremely painful.
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