i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.
Boring, long, and too preachy.
Absolutely the worst movie.
As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
View MoreThe only thing that this film has going for it is the scenery. The idea for the plot of "Six Days Seven Nights" was a good one, if not original, about people being stranded on an island. Unfortunately, the screenplay goes way overboard in the action area with its wild encounters. With a weak script and weak characters, the actors can't save this film. Harrison Ford and Anne Heche seem to reflect the lack of anything of substance in the film, let alone any chemistry for romance. Other things detract from the film - its crude language, pushing of sex, and violence. With all that Quinn Harris (Ford) and Robin Monroe (Heche) face in this film, couldn't the writers and director have squeezed in a couple more oddities? Say, an erupting volcano, or a giant gorilla attack? As others have noted, Harrison Ford, like most actors, had poor roles in films that were turkeys. This is probably one film he'd like to forget.
View MoreHave you watched a movie and thought - this is terrible, but surely, it'll turn around?First, the acting is fine and the storyline is fine. This is strictly a "nothing else is on... this'll do".They crash. On an island. No concern about food or supplies. Emergency life raft? Yes! Oh no - comically, blown up in the plane - but undamaged! Food? A cute little beach picnic.But I think - you need to draw the lines at 1) pirates who have an endless supply of ammo, yet are the worse shots in the universe. 2) Finding pontoons completely in tact? Handy. Gee, I wonder if they'll make it away from pirates shooting bombs at them - even with dramatic music? Your guess is correct.The fact that there was no concern about actually crashing - hmmm...How will it end? Yes, your guess is correct.
View MoreIvan Reitman, the director, is usually able to pep things up but you can't breathe life into a corpse.It wasn't possible to watch this thing all the way through but it wasn't necessary either because it's all so familiar from previous versions of the bourgeois lady stranded with the handsome roughneck on the island of Sarcastica. Or is it Moribunda? The formula was an enormous success with "It Happened One Night" in 1934, a commercial and critical success, and a lot of fun. There were imitations of course but the pattern seemed exhausted by 1941's "The Bride Came C.O.D.," which had Bette Davis sitting on a cactus. But periodically since then the coffin creaks open and another attempt to use a tried and true formula emerges. Well, what the hell. All the originals were in black and white, and nobody watches old movies anymore.I really don't mind an occasional visit to the graveyard if the zombies turn out to be entertaining, but this is not. The anger and snottiness turn to love, sure, but it's not very funny. The jokes are the kind you might find in Laurel and Hardy. The dialog is bromidic. The performances are over pitched as if in an attempt to compensate for the uninspired plot.The writers haven't bothered with credibility much, but that's okay because this is supposed to be a romantic fantasy. Still, it's momentarily painful when you realize that they didn't care whether the setting was supposed to be Polynesia or the Caribbean. Everyone speaks English, some with a French accent, others with a Spanish accent. It doesn't matter to the writers, for whom a foreign accent is a foreign accent, just like the 1940s when the heroes spoke American and the Nazis spoke British.You have to be undemanding to enjoy this but the kids should get a kick out of it.
View MoreRobin Monroe, (Anne Heche) a New York magazine editor, and pilot Quinn Harris (Harrison Ford) must put aside their mutual dislike if they are to survive after crash landing on a deserted Island in Ivan Reitman's 'Six Days Seven Nights'What's interesting here is Harrison Ford personally picked out Anne Heche to be his co- star over stars like Julia Roberts. You'd have thought he'd have picked someone he had decent chemistry with, as (at least for me) they make an awkward on screen couple to say the least.David Schwimmer (Ross Gellar from TV's 'Friends') turns up as Ross Gellar from TV's 'Friends' but with a different name, one that now escapes me. He was that interesting. Danny Trejo had a minor role as a pirate,Interesting side note is Ford did his own flying in the movie, and had to be specifically insured to fly the cast in the plane. Heche was Annoying, Ford was gruff. Neither was likable.
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