Product Description: Running from devastating memories and guilt when Reece Gilmore's car fails in Angel's Fist it offers her the opportunity to reconnect with the human race but it may also put her life in jeopardy. Again. Based on Nora Roberts novel.System Requirements:Running Time: 95 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 043396209732 Manufacturer No: 20973
Don't judge the book by this movie I really enjoyed this book and was excited when I heard the movie was coming out. But what a disappointment that turned out to be. For the most part it followed the book with just a few changes, but the acting was horrible. Heather Locklear is a decent actress, but I don't know what she was doing here - it definitely was not acting. The scene where she heard the car backfire was comical. She was supposed to look like she was ducking for cover, in fear for her life. Instead it looked like she was doing an initial rehearsal of the the scene, going "ok, this is where I hear the car, think it's gunfire, and I go like this..."
For those of you who have seen the movie but not read the book, please do yourselves a favor and read the book. You'll be pleasantly surprised, and hopefully the book will wash the foul taste of this movie out of your head.
Pure Rental Fare...Not Worth The Price of Purchase!! What a disappointment! I remember when I first heard that Nora Roberts was emulating Danielle Steel and allowing some of her books to be developed into TV movies, I was so anxious to see the end results. I am a lifelong D. Steel fan & have virtually every novel and TV movie she has made. I like Nora Roberts' work as well, but admittedly, I am a sucker for the TV movie romance genre (Thanking the "TV Gods" for Lifetime and Lifetime & Hallmark Movie Channels as we speak!!). The Steel adaptations have been so good & well-acted by and large, so I was also very hopeful for N. Roberts' works. Well, wishful thinking can only take you so far!!!
This movie was a dud in every sense of the word. The plot was scattered and nonsensical, the acting was horrific, the romance fizzled, and the dialogue was a crime against humanity!!! I kept wondering what kind of a bet Heather Locklear must have lost for her to agree to be part of this mess. Heather Locklear--the TV darling who has created such memorable characters & wowed audiences with her impressive acting range from drama to comedy and back again over the years--presents such an unlikeable & confusing character in this movie. Instead of Locklear's patent vixen, love to hate characters or her female heroines with heart & humor, we have a traumatized former chef suffering the apparent affects of PTSD, who might be the victim of a gaslighting OR who might be a murderess in disguise. Bottom line: You won't care!!! At least I didn't. The story bounces all over the place and the plot is way too convoluted. And, the so-called romance between Locklear's Reece & Johnathon Schaech's brooding Brody was so dull it was almost painful to watch at times...Much like the movie itself!! Save yourself some money....Rent it, don't buy it, and you be the judge!!!
Thanks for the input, You really SHOULD read the book! Thanks to all of you who saved me the time and money that I would have wasted buying the movie and watching it. I did read the book before I was even aware that there was a movie made from it. I have to say that I loved the book, and had actually thought that there should be a movie made from it. I was thinking that someone along the lines of Jennifer Love Hewitt as Reece, and Josh Holloway ("Sawyer" on LOST) as Brody. Again, Really-read the book-it sounds like it is, at the very least, ten thousand times better than the movie. I, for one, am not wasting one penny or one second on the movie-thanks!
Angel Falls I had read the book and loved it. It kept me on the edge till the end. The movie was set in beautiful scenery and I liked it alot. The book was better, but you can't get it all in a movie in an hour and a half. Wish they would have done a mini series! I bought the movie and 3 other made for TV movies by Nora Roberts. I have enjoyed all of them. This one the most!
Terrible movie, not up to Nora Roberts' usual standards This has to be Heather Locklear's worst film ever. Between the bad script, silly dialogue, and incredibly bad acting, the only good thing about this film is the scenery. Reece Gilmore's (Locklear) car conks out in Angels Fall, Wyoming (near Jackson Hole). She gets a job cooking at the diner and the town, whose favorite pastime is gossiping, begins delving into her background. She locks, double locks, and triple locks her doors, puts tape on them to make sure no one has been in her place, and often sleeps in the bathroom with the door locked and a knife in hand. It's no surprise when the town discovers she was a victim of a crime and the only survivor of a killing spree at a restaurant in Boston (she was the chef).
Only about twenty minutes into the movie, Reece is hiking in the Wyoming woods and sees a woman get strangled by the creek, except she really doesn't actually see the woman get strangled because she falls over. The rest of the movie is similar to Gaslight where the killer begins trying to make her think she's nuts. Since she spent time in a mental institution after the killing spree, everyone in the town treats her like a nutcase, which I found quite annoying.
Here's where I had problems with the film. The acting is really bad. The characters are incredibly unlikeable, especially the sheriff and his nasty wife. Even the diner owner turns into a real witch, which isn't that big of a surprise because her son is the prime suspect. The writer, Brody, who lives in town and meets Reece pretty early on seduces her rather quickly and ineptly and, with all of her other hang-ups, the pairing is incredibly unlikely. Brody snoops through her stuff again and again and Locklear has a couple of really bad acting scenes that we had to laugh through (ducking when a truck backfires, sleeping in a tub, being seduced in her apartment, and hiding in the bathroom with a knife). We hated Brody, who keeps taking pot shots at her stint in the psychiatric hospital through the whole movie.
The ending was disappointing and predictable (although it's not who you think it is), the love scenes were horribly done, and the prejudices in the town were sickening. I'm a fan of Nora Roberts, but I wouldn't pick up this book either because even the plot was just plain awful. Since this was a made-for-TV movie, the scenes are really choppy. Locklear is apparently supposed to pass for a woman much younger than her 40 plus years and can't pull it off. Johnathon Schaech, who plays Brody, has enough wrinkles to pass for someone 40 plus also.
After reading the book reviews, it looks like there's at least one difference between the book and movie--town name. In the book, it's Angels Fist (weird name), but in the movie it's Angels Fall (still weird, Angel Falls sounds better).
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