Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

juneebuggy I really liked this, not without it's faults but a good story and I enjoyed the entire cast, the location, the action scenes and watching (a surprisingly hunky) Russell Crowe struggle with unrequited love for another mans wife. He plays an Australian and keeps his accent, which I'm not sure he's used recently, very nice.Meg Ryan,(keeping fantastic hair throughout) plays the wife of an engineer -the always good David Morse who is working in south America. When he's kidnapped by terrorists, she retains the services of hostage negotiator Terry Thorne (Russell Crowe) and the two (sort of) fall for each other.I liked how the story kept flipping back and forth between 'Alice' and her negotiating ransom demands to free her husband and the hell 'Peter' is going through via a dated timeline after being kidnapped by South American rebels. David Caruso was a surprise here too, I actually enjoyed his character- never been able to say that before.The final action scene/rescue is excellent, as is that smouldering goodbye kiss Crowe lays on Ryan. Sigh. 3/14/14

werefox08 This is one of those movies that simply...does not work. The three principle actors lack any intensity in what is a life and death situation. Russell Crowe tries hard to be cooler than cool...he finally looks like a live zombie. (far, far away). Meg Ryan looks very happy ...even after her husband has been kidnapped for many months. I do know this is the movie where Meg and the Crowe started there love affair...perhaps its true what they say about the Crowe. (anyway Meg sure looks happy). David Morse as Megs husband is never convincing in his role. The jumpy direction certainly does not help....and the continual instant changing of locations is not good. Its a movie with high ambitions ..it is also a bomb

Guy Plot: A kidnap & ransom specialist falls in love with the wife of the man he is supposed to be rescuingAt 135 minutes in length, this "thriller" simply doesn't thrill; it should have been no longer than 100 minutes. The narrative is flabby and the story ponderous; the love affair between the two leads is tepid, with little spark between the lovers (despite the two actors actually having an affair at the time); and the depiction of the American characters as boorish and self-obsessed is either a cutting indictment of them (Ugly American style) or a reflection on the same qualities existing in the film's creators. Even the end, which rejects the traditional Hollywood happy ending, is over-blown and bombastic; turning a brief reflective look into a meaning-filled, half a minute long piece of soul searching. The solitary redeeming feature is the climactic battle, which rejects the excess and angst of the rest of the film in favour of a super-lean and intelligent rescue mission. It's brilliant but it isn't worth slogging through the film to get to it. Better to just watch it on YouTube.

inspectors71 Taylor Hackford's Proof of Life is a hopelessly uneven, dull- as-dishwater, slap-dash chunk of topical hokum to begin with. I don't know which character I cared about the least, except a pre-CSI David Caruso, showing some sort of talent for acting(?). Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe are stolidly unpleasant. One can only hope they were more interesting for and to each other when they had their fling in real life. On screen, they're wholly unappetizing. Once again, the benefit of watching this gunk on the Sunday afternoon movie is that you don't have to pay for it. You'd be better off puttering about in your garage.