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2001 - NOW
The
Italian Job (2003)
Director
F Gary Gray’s remake of the 1969 British caper
“The Italian Job” was a critical and commercial
success that became the biggest hit for its studio Paramount
in that year. Notwithstanding the Mini Coopers on display,
it was the fresh chemistry of Mark Wahlberg and Charlie
Theron as the heist leader and safecracker respectively
that proved to be a winning formula in this remake.
Who needs sex or skin to sell when you can survive on
the charisma of the stars and well-choreographed action
sequences?
The Island (2005)
Michael
Bay’s brainy sci-fi movie, “The Island”
about human clones earned only a fraction of its total
budget at the domestic box-office though it was his
second-best reviewed movie after “The Rock”.
That’s really a pity- considering how Scottish
star Ewan McGregor and the ever-gorgeous Scarlett Johansson
make such a sexy couple on the run from the authorities
in futuristic Los Angeles. Coming from Bay, you can
be sure that MacGregor and Johansson will look as pretty
as they can be in this otherwise too long for comfort
sci-fi piece.
Mr. And Mrs Smith (2005)
If
there was an award for the best and most memorable couple
on the run, it would surely go to Brad Pitt and Angelina
Jolie in the Doug Liman action/comedy “Mr. And
Mrs Smith”. Rumors had Pitt falling madly in love
with Jolie during shooting and these were confirmed
when Pitt, then married to Jennifer Aniston, left her
for Jolie shortly after the movie was released. The
rest they say is history. Despite suffering from weak
writing and overblown action pieces, the star power
of Pitt and Jolie fuelled the movie to the tune of $478
million in worldwide box-office gross. We can’t
really argue with that can we?
Public Enemies (2009)
You probably wouldn’t find a sexier
bank robber than John Dillinger, especially when he’s
played by Johnny Depp. And the lucky one whom he fell
in love with was Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard)
whom he woos by buying her a fur coat. True, they didn’t
spend much time on the run together; nevertheless, they
were both trying to evade capture in their own ways-
Frechette becoming a target for the FBI after they try
to use her to get to Dillinger. Despite limited scenes
together, Depp and Cotillard lit up the screen with
their charisma and verve.
The Bounty Hunter (2010)
Since
Brad Pitt had his bickering ‘couple-on-the-run’
movie, there’s no reason why his ex-beau Jennifer
Aniston shouldn’t. Aniston paired with Gerard Butler
to play ex-marital spouses on the run from corrupt cops
guilty of a murder Aniston’s reporter is investigating.
Both stars are hot in their own right, but somehow they
lacked the same onscreen chemistry between Pitt and Jolie-
though their reel life romance did spill over to real
life. Too much noisy bickering between Butler and Aniston
made this Andy Tennant picture a modest hit at best.
Killers (2010)
Coming at a time when Katherine Heigl is fast cementing
her reputation as the go-to girl to play the ditzy blonde
in romantic comedy, “Killers” was a misstep
whichever way you looked at it. Heigl had little chemistry,
if any, with Ashton Kutcher and the movie was as illogical
and unfunny as it could get. It didn’t perform as
badly as some box-office prognosticators thought it would
during opening weekend, but given the poor word-of-mouth,
don’t expect this onscreen pairing to be remembered
positively at all.
Knight And Day (2010)
Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz- two of Hollywood’s
biggest stars in an action comedy that puts them in
tourist-picturesque locations in Spain and Austria.
What could go wrong? Well for one, box-office tracking
so far has indicated that few audiences are interested
to see it, making this potentially another one of Cruise’s
underperforming big-budget movies. What we’ve
seen so far are only what the trailers are telling us-
but we ain’t convinced that this will match Mr
and Mrs Smith anytime soon (also produced by Regency
Enteprises and its highest grossing film to date).
Killers
opens 3 June 2010
Knight
And Day opens 24 June 2010
If you miss part
one of "Cops, Guns, Fun And Couple On The Run"
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The
Italian Job (2003)
Edward
Zwick's Blood Diamond (2006)
MartinT
The
Island (2005)0)
Mr
And Mrs Smith (2005)
Public Enemies (2009)
Ridley
Scott's Body of Lies (2007)
The
Bounty Hunter (2010)
Killers
(2010)
Knight And Day (2010)
Sam
Mendes's Revolutionary Road (2008)
Martin
Scorsese's
Shutter Island (2009)
Christopher
Nolan's Inception
(2010)
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