Movies I've seen lately (other than porn).

• Jacob's Ladder: Tim Robbins plays a postal carrier who can't separate dreams from reality as he passes from Vietnam War flashbacks to seeing weird demons everywhere he turns. Good acting all around, and the action carries you all the way through. ****
• Frequency: Another of the Matrix aeon which bears watching again and again; sunspot activity allows a man to hold amateur-radio conversations with his fireman father who had died 30 years ago saving a child in a warehouse fire. Very few weaknesses in this movie. *****
• The Matrix: I keep watching this movie over and over, at least once a month; can't help it, it's just that good. Lawrence Fishburne, Keanu Reeves, and Carrie Ann Moss take you on a fast-paced joyride through a virtual-reality dream we call the universe. *****
• The Sum of all Fears: Now here is a place Ben Affleck does not belong, in the shoes of Jack Ryan. Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford both played the role well, though differently; but Affleck's weasel personality just doesn't fit the bill. The movie could have maybe reached at least mediocre status but for him, considering the strength of the other actors and the overall believeability of the plot. But forget it. *
• Changing Lanes: I usually don't like Ben Affleck, but here he plays a part that for some reason he fits into very well: a sleazebag lawyer. Samuel L. Jackson is always good, but sometimes, as here, he is too strong for the relatively weak character (an insurance salesman with a drinking problem) he is trying to portray. Overall, though, the movie was very well done. ****

John Comeau
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