1. Boy gets girl.
This has to happen at the end of reel (or act) three. In Against All Odds, however, Jeff Bridges lays Rachel Ward towards the end of reel one, and throughout most of reel two.
Result: the film is at sea during reel three because all the dramatic tension has been dispelled.
The writer has not taken care to make the Bridges/Ward relationship convincing or meaningful beyond raw sexual attraction in a fabulous setting, so when they characters return to their troubled lives in Los Angeles, it is not credible that Bridges is passionately in love with Ward to the point where he will take incredible risks to get her back (which he actually doesn't).
The narrative thrust of the plot is thus crippled within 30 minutes and this team of film-makers did not have the wit to retrieve it.
Five points, nevertheless, for the photography of Mexico and Rachel Ward.
This has to happen at the end of reel (or act) three. In Against All Odds, however, Jeff Bridges lays Rachel Ward towards the end of reel one, and throughout most of reel two.
Result: the film is at sea during reel three because all the dramatic tension has been dispelled.
The writer has not taken care to make the Bridges/Ward relationship convincing or meaningful beyond raw sexual attraction in a fabulous setting, so when they characters return to their troubled lives in Los Angeles, it is not credible that Bridges is passionately in love with Ward to the point where he will take incredible risks to get her back (which he actually doesn't).
The narrative thrust of the plot is thus crippled within 30 minutes and this team of film-makers did not have the wit to retrieve it.
Five points, nevertheless, for the photography of Mexico and Rachel Ward.