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Plot:
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Angel Eyes is a mature and levelheaded drama
about real people with authentic emotions, clawing
through their own hurt and confusion toward a
hopeful recovery. In a subtly effective performance
as Chicago cop Sharon Pogue, Jennifer Lopez is
both gutsy and vulnerable, using her badge as
a shield against a past incident of domestic violence
that left her estranged from her family and alone
with her conviction that good deeds are not always
rewarded. This leaves her open to the mysterious
appeal of Catch (Jim Caviezel), a haunted loner
whose slightly creepy demeanor is merely the cautious
façade of a man who, ultimately, has as much to
offer Sharon as she does to him. They connect--he
saves her life, just as she had once saved his--and
Angel Eyes proceeds to reveal the true and fateful
depth of their love.
It seems, at first, that Gerald Di Pego's script
will turn in a supernatural direction--or at least
a metaphysical one--but it doesn't, and director
Luis Mandoki navigates an emotional minefield
while acknowledging the walls that people build
between themselves and the traumatic events they
wish to forget. Catch has kept a deliberate distance
between himself and a tragedy that Sharon had
witnessed--not a repressed nightmare, but a devastating
loss from which he will, eventually, recover.
That these two characters should rediscover each
other at a time of mutual need is not a contrived
coincidence. In Angel Eyes, it's the karmic redemption
of two wise and deserving souls.
--Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
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