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Liberty Stands Still
on DVD (2002)
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Brief synopsis of Liberty Stands Still
Liberty Wallace (Linda Fiorentino), heiress and co-president of America's largest gun manufacturer is on the way to meet her lover at a theater. While passing through a public park, a series of events finds her chained to a hotdog car, the long-range laser sight of a gun aimed at her chest. The owner of the gun (Wesley Snipes) calls her via cell phone to explain his agenda and let her know that there is bomb in the hot dog cart that will detonate when her cell phone runs out. So begins a game of cat-and-mouse in which serious questions are raised concerning the issue of gun control. Director Kari Skogland's audacious thriller combines action scenes with tense, intelligent dialogue, providing an intriguing change-of-pace for star Snipes.
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Anyone who has seen the vastly superior Phone Booth will be more than familiar with the execution and storyline of this tedious thriller. Centred around a single mobile phone call, it's another sniper revenge picture, only here it's bereaved father Wesley Snipes who's getting even after his daughter's fatal shooting. Snipes delivers a credible enough performance as a man walking a tightrope between emotional and psychotic. However, Linda Fiorentino is as ineffectual as her trapped character: an arms manufacturer called on her mobile by crack-shot Snipes and forced to handcuff herself to an explosives-filled hotdog stand. For a race-against-time tale, the feature is inappropriately plodding and tension free, while Fiorentino's climactic confession is too melodramatic to really convince.
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