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HOLLYWOOD
'Glee' star's movie needs more bite
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
LOS ANGELES — "I Am Number Four," the appealing new-kid on-the-teen-angst block, reverberates with much of the same dark combustible mix of action and romance that's been fueling the "Twilight" vampire mega-franchise for a while now. The issues of the heart have shifted from the undead to the otherworldly, and the battles have beamed up considerably, but its fits still rests on the basic boy-meets-girls story, which frankly could use a bit more bite.
Alex Pettifer, another lean and comely Brit with moody charisma in the Robert Pattinson vein, and sugary soft Dianna Agron ("Glee's head Cheerio") are our star-crossed high school sweethearts John and Sarah. She's grown up in the small town of Paradise, Ohio, and poses the film's burning question, "Who are you?" Well, my pretty, he's a stranger from another planet and already at the mercy of destiny, and when destiny is on your dance card, love doesn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. For all the crazy anyone could ask for there are the deadly aliens of planet Mogadore.
producing, it's not surprising that "Number Four" comes fully loaded with some of the best action any high school kids have gotten since Shia LaBeouf in "Transformers." In "Disturbia" director D.J. Caruso's more emotionally sensitive hands, the relationships start to take shape in ways that would make a future life for "Number Four" actually appealing.
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Much of the canned heat of the repressed sexual sort so necessary to these films is provided by the leather-clad hottie Number Six, played with butt-kicking verve by Teresa Palmer. Which makes the John-and-Sarah crises only worse. It's not a matter of whether they'll fall in love but absolutely no sparks fly between them.
ny between them.
In fairness, the filmmakers haven't given Agron much to work with. No inner demons, no teenage doubts, no rebellious edge, she even gets along with her parents — the basic recipe for bland and boring.
We don't really get much about their motivations for all the mayhem, though honestly the unsightly gills on either side of their noses would put anyone in a bad mood. Evil as they are, you're grateful when they show up because sparks don't just fly, they ignite an inferno.
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If you feel somehow stifled, take the time today to explore your options and see what's next. Don't make sudden decisions (you may later regret). Just consider.
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The full moon could represent growth in your career or love life, and not without some extraordinary excitement. Where does your heart currently lie?
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Table
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58 Exist
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21 Striped equine
23 Ungraceful one
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Yesterday's answer 2-18
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46 Singer McEntire
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49 Tokyo's old name
50 Leon Uris' "QB —"
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R W Q X F W N Z F G Z Q DF FG Z
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MDII FGZT XQWSD MQWSBZO?
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HOLLYWOOD
International thriller lives up to big hype
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
LOS ANGELES — "Unknown" is a nifty international thriller of the "what if?" variety. What if you came out of a coma after a car accident to find that no one knew you? Or, even worse, that someone had pilfered your identity, and everyone you thought you knew, especially your wife, insisted that that other person was you.
Now an ordinary individual might have trouble in that situation, but "Unknown" doesn't have anyone average as the beleaguered biologist Martin Harris — it has Liam Neeson, the star of "Taken" and one of the most naturally forceful actors on the contemporary scene.
In fact, "Unknown" is best viewed as a kind of "son of Taken," the 2009 film that starred Neeson as a relentless berserker who terrorized all of France looking for his kidnapped daughter, a picture that surprised everyone by grossing $145 million.
What sets "Unknown" apart is the strength of its cast, which besides Neson includes Diane Kruger, January Jones, Aidan Quinn, Bruno Ganz and Frank Langella. They in turn were likely attracted by the shrewd nature of the intriguing plot twists that eventually fill us in on what's going on.
We first meet Harris on the plane flying he and wife Elizabeth (January Jones) to Berlin for a global technology summit where he's scheduled to give an important presentation. It's all so tranquil it might be a commercial for Singapore Airlines, but we know better. This is Liam Neeson, after all, and his characters never have a nice day.
a nice day.
Sure enough, Harris leaves his briefcase behind at the Berlin airport, and the taxi taking him back to recover it gets into a horrendous drowse. Harris comes out of his coma four days later, horrified to learn that no one, not even has wife, has been asking for him.
He's warned "there are no rules for severe traumas like this one," but he insists on leaving anyway and his doctor (possibly having seen "Taken") knows better than to stand in his way.
Worse news, however, awaits him at that conference. Not only does his wife deny him like Peter denying Jesus, she presents him to another man (Aidan Quinn) who confidently insists he is the real Martin Harris. "What's going on, Liz?" Harris plaintively moans. "It's me, Martin, your husband." No response.
As "taken" demonstrated, it may be a given that the road will be twisty and long, but those who bet against this man always live (and sometimes die) to regret it.