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A Simple Plan (1998)
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Movie Review by Zara 
November 18th, 2007
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Since Paul is covering Raimi in a his most well known light (I prefer to think of him that way and not the man who brought the wildly uneven and perplexing trilogy that is Spider-Man to the screen, and anyone who shatters my illusions is going to get popped in the face), I figured I could cover the other angle of Raimi.
Probably one of my favorite side notes in Raimi's career was 2000's THE GIFT, where he took a huge roster of big names and had them play all across the map. I wasn't expecting to get a chance to see Katie Holmes' breasts in my lifetime and the man not only gives them to us, he gets Katie to flaunt them like a brazen hussy. Imagine my delight and surprise.
This is another movie with some great people in it. Well, really just Thorton, an actor who can slap you in the face with his talent. And it's a backhanded slap. Whilst he's playing what you think is the same character in similar set-ups, he'll add something that takes you completely away from it. The scene in this movie where you think that he's decided not to help his brother set up his friend and then he switches it up and you're left speechless is one. The scene where he describes his pathetic excuse for a love life in another (and for the record, I would wager dimes to dollars that Thorton is hung like a horse in real life, yannow?).
It's Fonda that really surprised me here. Normally there is something about her which rubs me the wrong way. The feigned emotions, the scrunched up little pixie nose, the trying too hard. Raimi manages to leash her in and get her to be deviously chilling in this flick. The scene where she dishes out a plan as she's nursing her newborn daughter for the first time is enough to make your blood run cold.
The performances definitely save what otherwise would have been another movie where guys think they've lucked into something good only to find out that they've fallen into a trap of greed and ultimate doom. The direction is tight in a way that Spider-Man needed. If Raimi ever goes back to the webbed one, I'd use the simple plan of going back to this film for direction on how to direct number four.
I'm just saying...
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 | Tim
Nov 18, 2007 2:30 AM
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| I tried watching this one night and got very bored with it in the first 10 minutes.....was I close to the hump or is this a slow movie for the first half.....the story sounded cool I was really thinking that I would like it. |
 | The Alpha Craig
Nov 18, 2007 10:08 PM
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| Call me crazy, but I will always think of Raimi as the genius that brought us Evil Dead and Army of Darkness (immmediately pairing him up in the dynamic duo of himself and Bruce Campbell.) |
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Nov 18, 2007 2:40 AM