Powder Blue

May. 08,2009      R
Rating:
6.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide.

Jessica Biel as  Rose Johnny
Eddie Redmayne as  Qwerty Doolittle
Forest Whitaker as  Charlie
Ray Liotta as  Jack Doheny
Patrick Swayze as  Velvet Larry
Lisa Kudrow as  Sally
Kris Kristofferson as  Randall
Sanaa Lathan as  Diana
Ravi Patel as  Sanjay
Mandy June Turpin as  Nurse Jenkins

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Reviews

ChanBot
2009/05/08

i must have seen a different film!!

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Moustroll
2009/05/09

Good movie but grossly overrated

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Robert Joyner
2009/05/10

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

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Nayan Gough
2009/05/11

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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MetroVavin
2009/05/12

It was criticized for being about loneliness and love. How could that be a criticism? What emotions are more fundamental to human life? It was criticized because it asks us to believe that beautiful women can be insecure and desperately lonely and needy. Has reality been so thoroughly replaced by TV in our minds? Jessica Biel, Eddie Redmayne and Forest Whitaker give realistic touching performances and the rest of the cast is just as energetic. Like Biel Los Angeles is stripped, flashing naked concrete and gritty alleys. The loss, despair and torment didn't seem melodramatic to me but an unflinching look at the darkest moments in life, feelings we can't look in the eye. Lovely portrayals of the awkward ways we reach out trying to cut through the barriers between us.It's a drama with the feel of film noir, not a love story, a crime story, or an action film. Not the kind of film I usually enjoy, but it is fast paced with lots of interesting relationship developments so it kept me intrigued. The photography is gorgeous, too.While some of the plot twists are borrowed from TV soaps, the film manages to treat them as surreal plot devices, to exaggerate and expose relationships and inner feelings, like a comic book of the emotions. What is especially nice are some short scenes sketching interactions of attraction, repulsion, need, or desperation that are unique and strike true.

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Reaper
2009/05/13

I have always thought that Jessica Biel was overrated as an actress. After seeing this, I think she's even overrated as a beauty. Her breasts are nice, but not worth the wait.Notwithstanding the B+ list cast (Forest Whitaker may still be A-list, but surely Liotta has fallen off - it's been ages since Goodfellas - and Lisa Kudrow gets only an extended cameo), this film probably does not get green-lit if someone says, "hey! What if Jessica shows off her boobies!"The movie is trite and predictable. Liotta has come back from prison after 25 years. His interaction with Biel (before her nekkidness) is telegraphed virtually from the first scene. Whitaker is a defrocked or laicized priest (or maybe he just quit) whose moral dilemma has all the subtlety of a Mack truck. Qwerty, whose name is never explained, is as shallow a character as the keystrokes that gave him his sobriquet.The digital color enhancements (possibly old-fashioned filters, but I doubt it) are annoying - it's not just the blue snow; it's the blues and oranges that saturate every frame.When a filmmaker tries to be profound, but misses, he achieves only pretension, and that's what we have here. This is a pale imitation of Paul Haggis' Crash (which was itself a pale imitation of Altman's Short Cuts -- but we digress). Not worth the watch.

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oneguyrambling
2009/05/14

It seems like in recent years many filmmakers want to depress the audience for their $20 ticket price. Powder Blue takes it one step further and tries to bore us to death at the same time.It somehow also manages to make Jessica Biel nudity boring and depressing too.The core plot lines follow a short timespan in the lives of four characters – the aforementioned single Mum/stripper Rose (Biel), a burly tatted ex-con with a secret named jack (Ray Liotta), a religious man with a death wish named Charlie (Forest Whitaker) and a waifish young mortuary owner named Qwerty… for some reason.Over the course of nearly two hours all four leads manage to inch their way towards nowhere – one paralysingly dull scene at a time. It seems for every step toward the light there are two punches in the face waiting. They even decide to throw a dying kid in the mix to cheer us up.Cameos abound with Patrick Swayze, Lisa Kudrow and Kris Kristofferson popping up to provide either momentary hope or to crush dreams – occasionally both – in an intricate series of supposedly random events that bring our four pathetic 'heroes' into each other's orbit. Things I might add that would never actually happen.Powder Blue wants to be Babel meets Storytelling meets Crash, which in my opinion is hardly lofty aspirations anyway. What results is somehow less than, but just as non-entertaining or thought provoking. In the end it's depressing meets unlikely with a solid helping of dull for good measure.Final Rating – 5 / 10. There's a reason that you haven't heard of Powder Blue, and if you have it's because Biel gets her kit off. Let me tell you that isn't near as inspirational as it should be either.

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Will McMorrow
2009/05/15

This movie was life changing to say the least. Although at times its a little unbelievable the only two words i could use to describe are emotional and roller coaster.I felt Gareth O'Conner's performance may have let the move down a little bit with his snooty comments and obscene gestures.The movies shocking nature forces one to consider what does it really mean to ones self. In my opinion anyone who has not seen powder Blue is lacking in life.i really felt the scene with the strippers was particularly striking due to its beautiful imagery that spoke novels to me. I feel that the movie also has serious re-watch value it seems that there is always a new angle to ponder the movie from

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