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    If you've never seen it you should. Quality filmmaking on display. Recommended.

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    Edge of Tomorrow Live,Die,Repeat ,,!!!!!
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    Ladder 49 (2004)

    imdb.com rating: 6.5/10

    my personal rating: 8/10

    *spoilers*
    The film opens with a holy blaze in a towering warehouse where the victims are trapped on the twelfth story. The main character or protagonist is one of the firefighters who goes into the engulfed warehouse and then becomes separated and trapped within the rubble. The film abruptly continues on from that scene into a narration of his life. So the beginning of the story is probationary or rookie FF Jack Morrison (Phoenix) and his journey to the Baltimore fire department/station. The fire station scenes brand the film as fun and genuine, you feel a real attachment to the characters/cast through where they live, sleep, eat, fight, and joke. The character development and depth is key here and offers one of the pro's. You get to know them as not just career FFs but people; Capt Kennedy (Travolta), Tommy (Chestnut), and Lenny (Patrick). When the film progresses we get to see Jack become married and have a happy family with two kids. Yes his wife does get unusually whiney and poutey at times, she did marry him after he was already a FF.

    The film's beginning and opening scene is actually the ending, too, if that makes sense? The beginning is him trapped in the warehouse, after the first ten minutes it cuts right back to the middle portion of the film which depicts his life. As we get the entire feeling of closeness and bond to him with the rest of the FFs and his family, at the end of the film it comes full circle and the conclusion is the warehouse fire, again. The conclusion is Morrison (Phoenix) being unable to be rescued even after coordinated attempts, he predictably passes away as a casualty. In the ending the love and drama is ever-present, it does grip you.

    The movie is jumbled with technical errors in its FF sequences. I do not know any other films Jay Russell has directed before, but these mistakes stick out like a sumo-wrestler in speedos at the beach. In my opinion the errors take what I would call a truly epic film down a couple notches. Now it is still a very good film don't get me wrong, it just could have been epic. No one seems to ever be wearing their gear during the fire sequences in this movie... One scene that bothered me was the suicide roof sequence in which the station sends three investigators on top of a vacant building for apparently no reason, one of them falls in the old roof and perishes in the fire. I kind of felt like that scene was unneeded and oddly detracted from the film. A FF department that large in size would use exact opposite protocol than this. A second scene that seems noticeably flawed is when Morrison is lowered down the side of a tall building with only a rope in a rescue effort. So there are three FFs on top assisting with the rescue effort and yet only one of them is holding the rope risking a man's life. Is this really happening? The good thing going here is the emotional story and plot carry the film and mask the technicalities. I have never seen The Towering Inferno (1974) with Steve McQueen to accurately asses it, however this remains my favorite FF movie of all time. It has everything you would want in a film of its kind from action to drama and love. Thumbs up for sure!
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    ...I went in expecting to not like it. I'm not much of a fan of Jolie these days, I didn't like the publicity photos of her, how she looks like Skelator now, etc...but...it worked. It was beautiful, though I noticed similar problems I see in virtually all of MPC's animation, the worst of all being the three fairy godmothers. It was a remarkably bad decision to do them like they did. Still, I enjoyed the rest of the movie for the most part and I was really surprised by that.

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