Fallen . Tucson Weekly . 01-26-98

Fallen

DIRECTED BY: Gregory Hoblit

REVIEWED: 01-26-98

Aside from an eccentrically amusing but all-too-short performance by Elias Koteas as a mass murderer singing in the electric chair, this film is relentlessly boring. It's hard to believe this made it past test audiences, as my informal poll revealed that 40-percent of viewers spent the film thinking about work, 35-percent had unrelated sexual fantasies, 20-percent worried about environmental issues, 4-percent were there as part of a field trip from a traumatic head injury clinic, and the remaining 1-percent actually paid attention to the screen. The film's format is oddly cyclical: There are three minutes of plot, then Denzel Washington does a voice-over describing what just happened, then he tells his partner (John Goodman) what happened, then he tells an Angelologist what happened, then he walks around in the mist and the rain, then there's another three minutes of plot and the cycle starts again. This allows for nearly 12 minutes of action in a five hour film. At least I think it was five hours...I kind of lost track of time when I realized there were only two years left until the millennium.

--DiGiovanna

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