Rated R for language
Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson
Directed by Tommy Lee Jones
The Story:
Black (Jackson) stops White (Jones) from jumping in front of the Sunset Limited train. Feeling responsible, White keeps Black at his apartment overnight. The two engage in a heated debate about life and death, God and nothingness.
If you want to see anything other than two of the greatest actors from this generation debate and fight about their beliefs, this is not the movie for you.
That's all you are going to get.
Based on the play, the set is Black's dingy apartment.
Aside from occasional noise from the neighborhood and a few distinct visual clues from a nearby window...
The movie rests solely on the shoulders of the two leads.
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However, when you've got your cast as Jones and Jackson, you're in pretty good hands.
Sometimes the dialogue or delivery seems a bit...off... maybe unnatural. Not sure if it's just the way it was scripted, or maybe an attempt by either actor to bring the tiredness of the fight to their delivery... but those occasions aren't many.
Naturally, when it comes to believers and non-believers, nothing is going to get solved, and no minds are going to be changed by watching a movie.
The ending is ambiguous.
The only thing that is certain, White lived to see another day. Whether or not his mind was changed or would he try to kill himself again...
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Final Grade: B
Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: Not a purchase, but I could see watching it again a year or two down the road.
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