11:14

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11:14, 2008-12-01
I watched this rather bizarre movie not knowing what to expect. Part way through I was hooked, and by the end I thought, "wow, what a clever movie." The movie seems somewhat improbable, dead bodies falling onto cars, an employee robbing his place of employment, a guy losing his genitals, but the end result was a well directed, well acted film. br / br /What makes this movie a challenge to watch is how it works backwards from the climactic scene. The movie thus becomes a series of vignettes that evolve around the preceeding (succeeding) event. The viewer knows when each scene ends as the camera focuses on a clock. The end result is an event that happens at 11:14 though that is really the opening scene in the film. br / br /With less capable actors, this film may have crashed and burned, but this cast is able to work with the director to make an entertaining, if off-beat, film.

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Very good film, with surprising twists and turns., 2008-11-26
This was a great thriller/independent drama film that was filled with clever twists and turns and also had some nice black comedy moments to it. The acting, dialogue and action sequences are great and it's amazing how well this movie flows and how well it was put together, the film also stars Hilary Swank (who also produced), Henry Thomas, Rachael Leigh Cook, Patrick Swayze, Barbara Hershey, Ben Foster and others in a multi-storied film where all the storylines intersect at the title time. The first story runs about 5 minutes, playing in real time from around 11:10 to 11:15. It then goes back in time to follow someone else around the same time. Our first victim of circumstance is Jack (Henry Thomas). He's just finished a phone conversation when out of nowhere, a body lands on his car. Since he's been drinking he decides that it might be a good idea to hide the evidence. A passerby stops to ask what the trouble is and assumes that the driver has hit a deer in the road, but when the cop who reports to the scene and opens up the trunk, a mad chase through the woods ensues. Flash back to Frank (Patrick Swayze who was surprisingly good in this role), who's watching his daughter (Rachael Leigh Cook) leave from the window of their home. He decides to take his dog out for a walk through the cemetery. He soon discovers his daughter's keys on the ground and then runs headlong into a body, its skull crushed beyond recognition. Thinking that it was his daughter who committed the murder in self-defense, he decides to protect his daughter by getting rid of the body. There is also a hilarious subplot about three drunken teenagers who go out on a joyride and end up being in alot of trouble, and the moral of this story was don't pee out of the window of a moving car or else!. 11:14 was an extremely entertaining and well crafted film with great performances from the cast especially Hillary Swank as a not so clever store clerk and Patrick Swayze, who I'm not really a big fan but he was pretty good in this film as the overprotective father. I highly recommend this enjoyable film and two thumbs up. br / br /

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Underrated, 2008-07-22
Very well executed film here in which a handful of funny/tragic events meet up in an unforgettable climax. The acting is really quite good as they had a fab script to interpret. If you enjoyed the stylings of Amoresperros, 21 Grams, and Babel, then this should be your cup of tea. This film is better than 99% of the mediocre films that make it to the mega-plex.

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Cool frickin' movie., 2007-10-15
Rachel Leigh Cook is a bombshell that make me want to explode. I highly recommend this movie not only on the previously stated grounds but the simple fact that it is a really good movie. It has a dark comedy edge to it, along with quality, attention keeping plot turns to keep even the squirreliest ADHD afflicted kid mouth breathing at the TV screen in complete awe. Did I mention Rachel Leigh Cook is a goddess? Scrumtrulescent.

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Entertaining Dark Comedy, Still Hardly Groundbreaking, 2007-09-02
Mixture of crime and comedy told with multiple viewpoints is no longer a new thing after "Pulp Fiction," but the impression of "11:14" is closer to Doug Liman's "go" (1999), of which tagline goes "Life begins at 3 am." Greg Marcks' film starts earlier, but the tone is slightly darker. br / br /The film, which starts with one strange car accident involving a dead body falling from up above, skillfully puts together a range of different perspectives. More strange and bizarre accidents are to happen later in the film and those characters played by Hilary Swank (also co-executive producer), Henry Thomas, Blake Heron, Barbara Hershey, Clark Gregg, Shawn Hatosy, Stark Sands, Colin Hanks, Ben Foster, Patrick Swayze and Rachael Leigh Cook, make serious (and hilarious) mistakes. br / br /Hilary Swank's convenience store clerk "Buzzy" and gunshots part is most interesting and so is the freak accident that happens to one drunken teenage boy in the van. Both episodes end up with terrible and painful results which will make the viewers laugh a lot. br / br /But for me as the film went on, it became less and less interesting. It's like jigsaw puzzle and as the pieces are put in the right places, there are no more surprises coming from the finished parts. In Tarantino, round characters like Mia, Vincent and Jules never bored us with superb acting from Uma Thurman, John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson all speaking the dialogues you never forget. Here some characters are disappointingly flat such as Rachael Leigh Cook's flirting daughter and Patrick Swayze's concerned father. Tarantino would have milked their scenes for more surprising jokes (like the dead body in the backseat and Harvey Keitel's cleaner episode). In "11:14" we can predict what is coming after seeing Rachael Leigh Cook's character and her boyfriend enter the graveyard. br / br /"11:14" is an entertaining dark comedy and the director has a flair for making unique comic scenes, though it is also true that I felt I had seen them before while watching.