SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

hellholehorror We have seen this movie before and we have seen it done better before. Go (1999) springs to mind as the best film that has interwoven plots that all come together and make sense at the end. The film moves at a fast pace and it never gets overly complicated. These factors work to its advantage. The let-down is that this is not original enough to be memorable. It is acted well enough to be believable. The music is alright, being let down by its upbeat tone. A film by numbers that entertains but never really goes anywhere.

Desertman84 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.

dunmore_ego 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.

Jackson Booth-Millard The title conjured up a few ideas in my head about what the plot line would involve, and the cast list looked interesting, so I gave it a chance, and I am really glad I did. Basically it all about five series of seemingly random but vitally connected events happening one night, with the most significant moments happening at the time of 11:14pm. So first is Jack (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial's Henry Thomas) who has been drinking and is driving, and at exactly the time a body suddenly drops on the front of the car, he thinks he has hit this guy and places the body in the trunk. He is interrupted first but a woman believing he hit a deer, and then Officer Hannagan (Clark Gregg) comes along and finds out the truth, and Jack runs away, and runs into the woman, Norma (Falling Down's Barbara Hershey), and he is seemingly responsible for the death of her daughter. Next, we see teenagers Tim (Stark Sands), Mark (Colin Hanks, Tom's son) and Eddie (Ben Foster) driving around causing trouble throwing things out the window, then Mark driving is distracted by Eddie peeing out the window, and he hits and kills a girl named Cheri (Rachael Leigh Cook). Duffy (Shawn Hatosy) tries to shoot them and they race away, and that is when they realise that Eddie has had his penis cut off by the window snapping shut, and running back Tim manages to steal it back from paramedics Leon (Jason Segel) and Kevin (Rick Gomez). Meanwhile, Frank (Patrick Swayze) goes to walk the dog through the graveyard, and finds his daughter Cheri's car keys, and the body of Aaron (Blake Heron), so he puts the body in the trunk of Aaron's car. After accidentally locking himself out, Frank takes the car to the nearby flyover bridge, and after a brief interruption, he dumps the body over the bridge, and it lands on Jack's car, like we saw earlier, and his wife Norma comes along to tell him to look for a hurt deer. Not far away, Buzzy (Hilary Swank) is working late at the convenience store, and along comes co-worker Duffy asking if he can take cash out the register to pay for Cheri's abortion, there us a quick interruption by Mark and Eddie, and a visit from Cheri herself. Buzzy accidentally plays with Duffy's gun, and she does agree to let him take the money he needs, as long as he makes it look like a robbery, with a gun shot in the arm, but it is when shooting at Mark's van that Officer Hannagan arrests him, with Buzzy arrested as an accomplice. Finally, Cheri, supposedly pregnant, goes to the graveyard to have sex with Aaron, who ends up having a grave stone head drop on his head killing him instantly, and she runs away dropping her keys, so she borrows Frank's car to go to the convenience store. After a smooch with Duffy, and leaves, phoning the police to report the shooting inside, with Mark's van passing, and she makes a quick call to Jack before Duffy spots her broken down, and she gets out and gets hit by Mark's van, her cellphone confirms it is 11:14pm. The casting is very well done, the editing is really clever, the story constructed like the department store scene of Jackie Brown is good, and the joke of every person witnessing death makes for dark giggles, a very worthwhile black comedy drama. Good!