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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Blackjack |
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Dolph Lundgren stars in this John Woo - directed film as a former U.S. agent turned private security entrepeneur. When his former agent buddy is killed guarding a VIP from terrorists, Dolph inherits his friend's adorable daughter, a plot motivating grudge against the terrorists, and a "paralyzing fear of the color white". Yes, really. To legitimize the revenge plot line, he is hired to provide security by a famous model, who is inexplicably threatened by the same terrorists. He fails to protect the model, who is kidnapped by the terrorists' assassin in order to set up a climactic final scene. But with the daughter's help, he overcomes his phobia in the last 6 seconds of the film.
This astonishing film is so appallingly conceived that it achieves a thrilling absurdity. The morass of pointless subplots, including fruitless psychotherapy with a nymphomaniac shrink and the wild goose chase after the killer into a milk factory which reveals our hero's weakness, leave so little time for the obligatory romance that the model almost disappears from the film.
--, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Blackjack |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- bodyguarding VIP
Romance
Yes
The terrorist enemy is...
- terrorist group
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- private investigator
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- bulging muscles
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- killer
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Eastern European
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- in awe
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 (a little)
Kind of violence:
- mission to protect something
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
Any profanity?
- None
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