In ' Under Siege,' where he was also a mad bomber of sorts, he got to play other notes, as a deceptively friendly impostor, and as a group leader.

(2) He is a loner, so all of his scenes are with his enemies, leading to a one-note performance. (1) He is saddled with all the Irish political apparatus, which provides a 'motivation' when none is really needed. Jones is one of the best villains in the business, but here he has two problems. Then Jones tracks him down and starts setting his elaborate traps.Ĭonventional wisdom has it that a thriller is only as good as its villain. Jones ends up in prison, and Bridges escapes to the U.S., where he changes his name, becomes a cop, and eventually falls in love with the violinist ( Suzy Amis). In an attempt to offend not even the IRA, the movie explains that Jones was 'too crazy' for them, and indeed when Jones hatches a plan to bomb civilians, Bridges blows the whistle on him. Its central enigma is supposed to be: How can bomb squad member Jeff Bridges stop mad bomber Tommy Lee Jones before he blows up everyone Bridges loves, and half of Boston along with them? In actual fact, the puzzle is: How does Jones have enough time to rig such intricate and labyrinthine schemes? What does he really want to do? Get revenge, or win the Westinghouse Science Search? The movie is essentially a thriller about brave cops against a mad bomber, but there's a back story about how the characters played by Bridges and Jones met 20 years ago in Ireland, where Jones was a bomber and Bridges was his student. 'Blown Up' is the kind of movie that people should be sentenced to see if they complain that ' Speed' is implausible. Jones has rigged an abandoned ship with a Rube Goldberg device in which bottles topple over, and balls roll down chutes, and switches and levers are triggered, and eventually a bomb will be set off. The mad bomber ( Tommy Lee Jones) holds a remote control device which will blow up Jeff Bridges' girlfriend while she plays violin for the Boston Pops. A retired cop ( Lloyd Bridges) is chained to a piece of playground equipment and wired to a bomb. ' No points for figuring out that at the speed of electricity, if one of them is the smallest fraction of a second behind the other one. The tension mounts as they do the countdown: 'Three. The only recourse is for the threatened cop (Forrest Whitaker) and his partner ( Jeff Bridges) to separately and simultaneously cut two wires. Starring Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence, the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, and. A member of the bomb squad is listening to a Walkman which, alas, has been rigged with a bomb, so that if he removes the earphones his head will be blown off. Catching Fire was the second film in the blockbuster Hunger Games series. A mad bomber is loose in Boston, and there are more diabolical schemes afoot. No points for guessing which will come first, since at typing speed she would have to pound the keyboard for many long months to exhaust the memory of most hard disks.īut wait. At one point, early in 'Blown Away,' a tearful student at MIT is about to be blown up because her computer has been rigged with a bomb that will explode, the dialogue explains, 'when the hard drive runs out of available bytes' or when she stops typing.

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