"1408" directed by Mikael Hafstrom [review]
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Date
2007-11-22
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Prescott, Nicholas Adrian
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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1408 is a puzzling film, in many ways. It’s puzzling primarily because John Cusack is in it, and it’s not a very good film. This is an oddity, in my opinion; the ever-likeable Cusack very rarely steps out of line, usually pairing engaging turns as co-writer with canny role choices onscreen. Sadly, this, Cusack’s latest outing as a leading man, is a very dull experience; he neither wrote nor produced nor executive-anythinged it; indeed it seems suspiciously like he might have been offered too good a deal as an actor to refuse, and that he took the money and ran. Don’t get me wrong, he’s fun to watch, and he plays the not-quite-average-Joe with great skill, but it’s all in service of a film that you’re likely to forget the moment the final credits’ reflection fades from your eyeballs.
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Radio, ABC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Review, Film, Movie, Nick Prescott
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Prescott, Nick 2007. Review of "1408", directed by Mikael Hafstrom. 891 ABC Adelaide website.