Better Late Then Never

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

'11:14' is one of those films that is destined to have a 'cult following.' Although, to date, I have yet to find any evidence of it achieving this honour. I loved it right from the word go and frequently try and recommend it to many a friend, only for them to look at me blankly as if I'm speaking a foreign language. I suppose I can see why... it's certainly not your average Hollywood film and it's a little hard to describe.I'll try and 'sell' it in as few words as possible: It's a film containing around four (seemingly unrelated) stories all set in the same time one night, all of which begin approximately 15-20 minutes before 11:14pm . What we see is the built-up of events in each tale, all of which come together at the titular time. Yes, I know - that synopsis hardly blows your mind. But, please, bear with me...It's really good! Or rather it's really good if you like stories like that. If you're looking for something to watch in the background, or you have a habit of checking your Instagram account on your phone while you 'watch' a movie then you're probably best off glossing over this one. It really is a story that needs to be properly watched to be properly appreciated. As each story ends, times rewinds around half an hour for the next story to begin. Each new set of characters then goes some way to shed light on the questions you're left with from the previous story, until - finally - all loose ends are tied up by the time the credits roll.Plus it has an excellent cast. I know Patrick Swayze will always be remembered for 'Dirty Dancing/Ghost/Point Break,' but he's pretty damn good here. And, although Hillary Swank will probably never win another Oscar for her role here, she's also an excellent addition to the cast. The you have Colin (son of Tom) Hanks and a fair few other familiar faces you've probably seen here or there.Perhaps, ultimately, whether or not you're going to enjoy '11:14' rests on whether you're into severely black comedy. Yes, as the stories unfold, the body-count rises (and that's not including 'intimate' appendages that are severed in some freak accident. So, if you fancy taking a break from watching superheroes flying round a major city killing aliens and want to watch something that forces you to actually watch it and take in what's happening, then - seriously - give this one a go. And I will continue to do my best to 'plug' it as, even without the 'cult following' it really is a hidden gem of a movie (plus it's not that long - if that goes any way to sway your opinion).

11:14 is an independent thriller that follows the intricate connections of five different story lines that collide in a series of deadly and ironic twists. Ensemble cast includes Rachael Leigh Cook, Henry Thomas, Shawn Hatosy, Stark Sands, Colin Hanks, Ben Foster, Barbara Hershey, Clark Gregg, Patrick Swayze and Hilary Swank.It was directed by Greg Marcks.The film involves a series of interconnected events that converge up to the same time at 11:14 p.m. The connections between the events are not apparent at first, but are gradually revealed by a series of progressively receding flashbacks:1) Jack, who has been drinking, is seen driving along a road at night talking on his cell phone. The clock on the dashboard reads 11:14 p.m. Suddenly, as he drives under an overpass, something smashes across the windshield, causing him to skid off the road. He stops by a deer crossing sign and gets out to inspect the damage, and finds a human body with a badly mutilated face lying close to his car. When he sees another car approaching, he panics and drags the body out of sight;2)Teenagers Tim, Mark and Eddie are driving around causing trouble by throwing things out of the windows of Mark's van, including a book they have set on fire;3)Frank is walking his dog late at night and discovers his daughter's car keys next to the dead body of Aaron in the cemetery. Thinking his daughter is responsible for the death, Frank packs the body in the trunk of Aaron's car, accidentally locking the keys in with the body;4)Buzzy is working at a convenience store late at night. Her friend and co-worker Duffy arrives and they begin discussing Cheri's pregnancy and money needed for an abortion; and 5)Cheri leaves her house to have sex with Aaron at the cemetery. Aaron is reclining against a tombstone that has a stone angel on top. The angel's neck is damaged and the heavy stone head falls onto Aaron's face, killing him instantly and mutilating his face.The camera pans to Cheri's cell phone, which reads 11:14 p.m.This is an enjoyable and smartly directed comedy thriller with a clever script and engaging performances from its ensemble cast especially Hillary Swank and Patrick Swayze. The solid screenplay satisfyingly clicks everything together, unraveling little mysteries as it goes and leaving nothing hanging. The audience is made privy to connections between the characters that they themselves are unaware of and they will see how various lies and deceptions lead to murder.Ultimately,this is an enjoyable and entertaining film.

An ingenious tripwire thriller, where a series of unrelated events all come together in the wrong place at the wrong time - 11:14 pm.Writer-director Greg Marcks crafts 11:14 like a master weaver of spells, throwing us into compelling vignettes already in progress, in the grand tradition of Tarantino. That being said, 11:14 is reminiscent of Nolan's MEMENTO, where we see the time stream reversed after every vignette to show us different perspectives of one crazy night in a small American town. The driving narrative gives us no pause to consider exactly how each of five tales jigsaws into its adjacent tale; we just know we're running down an antelope with an indie tracksuit on.Five groups of people, five bad decisions, five tales of woe, five tales of deceit, chronology bent out of shape, until all the time streams converge with explosive consequences. Doc Emmett Brown warned us what would happen if time streams collided.Henry Thomas drives down a deserted stretch of highway at night. As he drives under an overpass - a body falls onto his car. It is 11:14 pm. He has been drinking, he has no license and now there's a dead body by the side of the road with him. A lady driving by thinks he has hit a deer, calls the cops "to help" and drives off. See what happens after he stuffs the body in his trunk and a cop arrives...Colin Hanks leads a trio of hooligans (wasn't that what young, rowdy boys were called back in the '70s before wiggas and gangstas?), tearing up suburbia in his tiny minivan. (One of my friends owned a van exactly like this when we were - ahem - hooligans. He affectionately called it the "rice bubble.") His van clock reads 11:09. They're doing nothing outlandishly evil, just drinking and driving, punching each other, throwing a burning book out the window, pissing out the window and generally not paying attention to the road - until they slam into a girl. 11:14. They hit the brakes as the girl is thrown forward in a crumpled heap, dead. A young man runs to the girl's body, tragically bends over it, then resolutely pulls out a gun and starts firing on the rice bubble as it screeches off. See what happens when the guy who was pissing out the window (Ben Foster) realizes his penis was chopped off by the rice bubble's slamming window at the accident site...Patrick Swayze (who loves his daughter but hates her boyfriend) takes his dog out for a walk at 11:04 - and finds Boyfriend dead in a graveyard, with Daughter's keys near the body. See what happens at 11:14 when he tries to dispose of the body to protect his daughter...At 10:58, Shawn Hatosy petitions his mini-mart co-worker (Hilary Swank) to help him rob the joint, to pay for his girlfriend's abortion. See what happens when Swank insists he has to shoot her to make the robbery look legit...Rachel Leigh Cook is a teen trollop who is conning many teen beaus into thinking she is pregnant with their child and needs cash for an abortion. She has spun a web of duplicity with almost all the males in this twisted tale. See what happens when her car doesn't start at 11:14...Take it for granted this ensemble cast create disturbing, memorable performances, the beauty of the movie is that each of the five groups keeps crossing paths in the tiniest ways that would be negligible and ineffectual were it not for the interesting way we know they are intertwined. Watch for Barbara Hershey and Jason Segel in almost unrecognizable cameos.Oh and - don't be late.

"11:14" is a weird little movie but a good one. It's about a seemingly unconnected group of people whose lives all converge on one another's at approximately 11:14 p.m.I actually liked the movie a lot, but whoever chose the music for the movie did a pretty crappy job, in my opinion, because it makes scenes that would've otherwise felt very suspenseful come across as a little comical, which I think is totally the wrong tone for a movie of this type.The cast is quite good and everybody turns in good performances. There are actually quite a few big names in this movie, which surprisingly didn't lend itself to being a more well known movie than it is, which, suffice it to say, not many people have probably even heard of it.I would recommend checking it out. It's probably not for everybody, but I thought it was really good. I would recommend watching it at nighttime because I think the ambiance helps the enjoyment of the movie. It would seem like sort of an odd movie to watch in the middle of the day, I think.