Powder Blue
On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide. Jessica Biel, Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker and Eddie Redmayne lead a top-notch cast in this powerful thriller about an overwhelmed erotic dancer, a grieving husband who has lost his will to live, a terminally ill ex-con and a pathologically shy mortician. With Kris Kristofferson, Lisa Kudrow and Patrick Swayze in unforgettable supporting roles, this film movingly chronicles the imperfect lives of people teetering on the edge of despair and the miracles that bring them back.
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You've seen it before... better - CaptainPhil
Compilation movies are tough to do... you know the kind - where the independent story lines all flow through a movie and carefully intersect by the end, followed up with a montage to ensure you got all the references. Yeah, it's like that, you just don't care.
Gritty and dark, the movie tries to be somber, deep, and depressing, but without any real connection to characters, 2/3 of the way through, you just don't care. The ties are predictable, as anticipated, and performances seemed forced. Fantastic actors plod their way through without much to work with.
Much of the film is a tease of the 'main event' -- what this movie is best known for, Jessica Biel's first nude scene. It seems in editing they realized the film itself isn't captivating, so they set up the nudity throughout the film, without much success.
These actors are capable of more. There just isn't much there to work with.Blue, blue, blue, my world is blue - Kobzar
The powder in the title of this small and mordant film refers to the snow that drifts down at film's end, whose lightness and purity signal a chance at renewal for this eclectic group of lost souls who haunt L.A.'s seedy underworld. Although why the director went to the trouble of dying the manufactured snow with blue food colouring is beyond me. The film concerns the truggles of several seemingly unrelated characters to survive, achieve redemption, or just find the solace of human contact in a dysfunctional society that cares little for their pain. The performances are all sincere and heartfelt. It's nice to see Ray Liotta play a sympathetic character for a change. Jessica Biehl's erotic dancing is, uh, interesting. Excuse me while I go watch that part again...fabulous bod........well something is good about this flick, at least. the stars are for JB scenes - rogerb666
Powder Blue is a mosaic of people desperately searching for redemption, human connection, and restored faith within the underbelly of Los Angeles. Ok! thats the official line.
Let’s be honest, the primary reason to watch this flick is Jessica's nude scenes. Biel may have felt strongly enough about the material to make this her "coming out" but let’s just say she doesn’t exactly have the eye for good scripts. So what if you have to endure an hour-plus of bad drama with a stalking Ray Liotta and Whitaker hysterically realizing he has lost his car. You get to see Biel flaunting her incredible body in various states of scantily dress before finally giving it up three times in the final 35 minutes. So order this DVD, call all your guy friends over and get ready with the chapter skip. Unless, of course, you were just looking for something to fill comedy night. Then, by all means, watch Powder Blue from front-to-fabulous-back
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You've seen it before... better - CaptainPhil
Compilation movies are tough to do... you know the kind - where the independent story lines all flow through a movie and carefully intersect by the end, followed up with a montage to ensure you got all the references. Yeah, it's like that, you just don't ...Blue, blue, blue, my world is blue - Kobzar
The powder in the title of this small and mordant film refers to the snow that drifts down at film's end, whose lightness and purity signal a chance at renewal for this eclectic group of lost souls who haunt L.A.'s seedy underworld. Although why the director ...fabulous bod........well something is good about this flick, at least. the stars are for JB scenes - rogerb666
Powder Blue is a mosaic of people desperately searching for redemption, human connection, and restored faith within the underbelly of Los Angeles. Ok! thats the official line.
Let’s be honest, the primary reason to watch this flick is Jessica's nude ...