![]() ![]() She's one dimensional when she needs to be more and when she needs to turn, to show her power, she falls flat. Jolene Blalock was miscast and her character is beyond. ![]() Amongst the wolves, Blalock's performance gets eaten. Watching the film Slow Burn on ION channel and so far the plot is slow, lame and makes no sense. Mekhi Phifer and a surprisingly facile LL Cool J (here credited by his given name James Todd Smith). JOLENE BLALOCK SLOW BURN SKINHired primarily for her looks and skin tone, Blalock has a hard time holding her own against heavyweights like Liotta, Taye Diggs, Chiwetel Ejiofor. This gets slightly more convoluted as it begins to intertwine with Cole's search for a Keyser Soze-like crime lord.Īs Timmer, Jolene Blalock is not only the sole female in a testosterone heavy cast, but also the weakest link. JOLENE BLALOCK SLOW BURN SERIESHe has until dawn to solve a simple mystery: Why is there a dead man in the apartment of his assistant DA (and part-time lover) Nora Timmer at midnight? Over the course of the next five hours, Cole meets a series of underworld figures in an attempt to figure out what happens. Ray Liotta leads the cast with a credible job as a by-the-bootstraps DA Ford Cole, who also happens to be running for mayor. If you dont agree with our list leave a comment with your opinion :)The Best Jolene Blalock Movies-8. And I'm being specific here, blaming the auteur, because for the most part, the actors are all turning in rather believable performances. It gets so caught up with being clever (see David Mamet) that it forgets about just telling a compelling story. Slow Burn fails because it never finds its own way. Ray Liotta, LL Cool J (James Todd Smith), Mekhi Phifer, Jolene Blalock, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Taye Diggs. Ray Liotta questions Jolene Blalock in a scene from Slow Burn. Confidential mixed with a dash of Rashomon and then at the end, just as it's about to vanish, a nice aftertaste of The Shawshank Redemption. Take a deep breath and you get a whiff of Chinatown, a hint of L.A. The plot also borrows liberally from other films in addition to the already mentioned Usual Suspects. Suffice to say it involves a lot of people lying, getting shot, pretending to be people they're not and a land deal gone right. The plot is too complicated in Slow Burn to fully explicate here. Even films like Usual Suspects, from which this draws heavily, knew enough to provide tension and drama, if not in situations, then certainly in character. Hitchcock said it best: "There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it." And that's the mistake made by filmmaker Wayne Beach in his delayed from 2005 Slow Burn. JOLENE BLALOCK SLOW BURN MOVIEThere's a way to make a movie where you don't give away everything, but instead give away just enough so the audience is on the edge of their seat, waiting for the moment they know must come. ![]()
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