Movie review: "Nick of Time" (1995)
Johnny Depp, Christopher
Walken, Courtney Chase
Director: John Badham
90 minutes
This Johnny Depp/Christopher Walken film is unremarkable in
quite a few ways: at least, cinematography, script, acting are on the list….
But I was drawn to the central theme—the paralyzing horror of
Depp’s predicament.
I think Johnny pretty well covers the range of emotions you’d
think everyone would feel in his situation. His desperation seems real.
Realistic. Lost. Enervated. Pissed. Galvanized. The unremitting adrenaline,
pushing him to act, or run….or kill.
I was on his side, but I did not want to be him.
Almost too dreadful to say it in words: kill, or see his child
killed.
I waited and watched for his escape, his release, his salvation.
I fiercely wonder how I would act in such a raging, tormented dilemma.
My salvation, right at the moment, is that I don’t have to make
the choice.
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