Usually duplicates are stolen faster. There are a few minor switches but here we have a reincarnation of 1993's Eastwood / Kostner maudlin extravaganza about a bad guy waltzing around with a kid on a little crime spree. They bind and the whole thing has the expected sad ending, exactly like this. As in rock music, the Stones, or Led Zep were always suing someone and winning for stealing a phrase, but apparently there aren't any intellectual property laws when it comes to movies. All you have to do is change the title.
Does this one hang on its own hook? Yes it does. It's decent, engaging, and mawkish. The twist at the end had been anticipated after about ten minutes into this. Yet and still, even if you didn't know this is what Fatal Attraction did with Play Misty for Me, coincidentally another Eastwood flick ripped off, this is still a decent thing. In the case of Misty I think the rip-off was a better movie, but not this time.
It's another formula, if you don't have a creative thought in your head. Wait for the infants born at the time of the original's release to grow up, copy a script that made money, change the title, and let 'er rip. Literally. Marketing, or put another way, 'There's a sucker born every minute', and I didn't come up with that phrase.
Does this one hang on its own hook? Yes it does. It's decent, engaging, and mawkish. The twist at the end had been anticipated after about ten minutes into this. Yet and still, even if you didn't know this is what Fatal Attraction did with Play Misty for Me, coincidentally another Eastwood flick ripped off, this is still a decent thing. In the case of Misty I think the rip-off was a better movie, but not this time.
It's another formula, if you don't have a creative thought in your head. Wait for the infants born at the time of the original's release to grow up, copy a script that made money, change the title, and let 'er rip. Literally. Marketing, or put another way, 'There's a sucker born every minute', and I didn't come up with that phrase.