Wonderful character development!

As Good As It Gets

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

"The real criminals are downtown on Wall Street wearing suits that cost more then any of us make in a year and they steal more money the anyone on Rikers Island ever dreamed of." Jim Baxford (Purcell) is a hard working man with a very sick wife. When advice he took ends with him losing all his money when the stock market tanked his life begins to spiral out of control. When he loses everything he snaps, and no one is safe. This is a movie that will make you feel many different types of emotions, mostly anger. An everyman gets screwed over and the bad news seems to pile on him again and again and finally does what some have only dreamed of. This is another movie that I do not advocate what he does, but it sure is fun to watch. This movie reminded me a lot of Falling Down in the way that that character also snapped and does things that I have always wanted to. By the time he snaps you really feel for him and are almost happy he does. I really liked this and I recommend the movie highly. Overall, one of the best B movies I have seen and Uwe Boll's best movie to date. I give this an A-.

I have only just come across this movie in the past couple of weeks and am flawed.Dominic Purcell is outstanding! Absolutely outstanding!I could not believe my eyes when I saw this movie. I could not help but say out aloud 'Now here is someone who understands what I have been going through!'.I have been dealing with exactly this in real life for years whilst trying to get my movie The Phoenix Objective off the ground.In Nov 2010 I attended the Directing Masterclass Workshop run by Bobby Roth. Just before getting on the Airbus back to Beverly Hills I told Bobby my ideas and concepts where he was instantly sold. He even went so far as to say how he would love to do a movie here in Melbourne.Since then I had lost contact and have been dealing with everything accept the violence that this movie portrays. However, understandable how someone with his background can react when and placed in an uncompromising situation.About a week ago I found out a friend and workmate from a Major Bank I worked, allegedly committed suicide. It is all I can say for now, as the case is ongoing.I am writing a Blog Expose as I type this, which will be up on my linked profile this weekend. Seth J Watts. My autobiography is also being prepared where currently the working title is 'Diary of a security guard. Climbing out of the Vipers Nest'.The script is brilliant, lighting, sound, editing, action and content superb. I have been fighting a cause of the exact same nature for some time now with the corruption in the private security sector.I have even gone so far as to put in Submission 162# to the Federal Productivity Commissioner Mr Peter Harris as well as go out on a limb and give a statement in person and on public record on the 23/09/2015 with Melbourne's Public hearing. I am the last to make statement.I have personally worked for 3 Major Banks mitigating potentially dangerous situations including but not limited to attempted extraction of sensitive information.I have worked security for the Ministers and Secretary's of the Department of Human Services but am now forced back onto the Centrelink system due to Financial Hardship that several of these security companies put me, and so many others in.I cannot praise those who put this movie together enough.Dominic Purcell, you were just brilliant.It would be great to work with you and Bobby.Seth J Watts Sw3productions: The Phoenix Objective.

Jim is living a peaceful life with a decent paying job and a loving family. Everything changes when the economy crashes causing Jim to lose everything. Filled with anger and rage, Jim snaps and goes to extreme lengths to seek revenge for the life, and potential good life, taken away from him......If I ever wanted to change the name of a film, it would have to be this one, and I would call it 'The Unluckiest Man In The World', because, wow, does he have some poor luck.He loses money, lots of it, and because of this, he loses his job, and when John Connor gives him $10,000 (easy money), he hires the Lesser known Roberts sibling, who wastes his money anyway.And to top it all off (no pun intended), his cancer suffering wife takes her own life, because she doesn't want to bother him with her illness.And I'm sure it happens in the space of a couple of days.......Its a lot to take in, and because of all his bad luck, the most feasible of Bolls films becomes more of the same, and even though I've grown tolerant of his film style and motivational coaching, the exploitation part if the film seems pretty pointless because of the maundering build up.Lessen the bad luck, have the wife healthy and run away with the guy who lost ll his money, and then we'd have a proper exploitation revenge flick, with a message of the dangers of playing with your life savings and your marriage.The twist at the end is pretty clever, but it's be more convincing if Purcell wasn't cast as the lead (no offence to the man, he puts in a great performance).All in all. Its a pretty bland affair, offering too little too late.Stick with Rampage, for a decent, shocking Boll film.

Full of spoilers. You've been warned. The movie starts off with the most unluckiest man in the world. He's a security guard and not a cop, his wife has cancer that the insurance company won't cover, all of his money is in a stock, that goes belly up, and on top of that he's being taken for more money because of a bad stock. He gets a lawyer, who screws him over. During all of this, this huge muscular man is completely calm and barely gives more than a boo-whoo, aw shucks vibe. Never gets angry. Until the ADA blows him off, and he curses at his secretary, but barely. It's supposed to be this profound moment, and it just falls so flat, and so weak. Then his wife kills herself. She cleans the house nice, does all his laundry, and then crawls into bed and fills it with blood. We finally get a little emotion out of our main character. It takes about 70 of the 98 minutes to get into any sort of action, when he accidentally kills the ADA. Then he goes on his spree, magically not being seen by cameras, or people, despite the fact he's using a very loud hi powered rifle in a sweet little Great Neck, Long Island. The climax of the movie starts with him picking people off from a parking garage, and then when he runs out of bullets, he walks out onto a horrifed street. People--who should have ran away but are for some reason just hanging out in perfect shooting range--are crying at the site of the masacre, while this man who walks out of where the gun shots were coming from, looking very angry and disinterested, and holding a freaking mask in his hand, just walks across the street without anyone noticing. If this movie ended with him being a ghost that killed people, that would be more believable. The line at the end of the movie "you know the difference between a banka and a gangsta?".....this guy wasn't a gangster! He was ex-military, he was a security guard, he was taking care of his family.....what's gangster about his character until he has a nervous breakdown at the end? And even then, he's not a gangster......he's apparently a murdering mastermind. Maybe if he'd chosen a profession of heists and murdering people, he wouldn't be in the financial woes that he was in. I watched this movie because I saw that Eric Roberts, Keith David, Edward Furlong, and John Heard were in it, so I figured it wouldn't be AWFUL. The story was bad, boring, drawn out, and ham-fisted. The writing was boring, and so full of agenda that it loses its emotional hold completely. The acting was flat--all around. Eric Roberts is this high powered lawyer that could just as easily be a hippie on W4th. I don't lightly give this a 1 star review. This moving is insultingly bad, and should honestly be ashamed of itself. It's not so bad it's good. It's not redeemable at all.