"Absolute Power" is an excellent movie to watch if you are looking for something undemanding and entertaining. The picture is made well and by the end, everything is wrapped up very nicely. If, on the other hand, you want a realistic film....well you might just wanna look further.
Luther (Clint Eastwood) is a career super-thief...with amazing skills and daring as well as a man who's never been caught. However, when he breaks into a rich man's home and raids the guy's hidden vault, things go from fantastic to horrible in a matter of no time. The hidden room is chock full of money and jewels...and Luther is making a big haul. But in the midst of doing this, some folks arrive home unexpectedly. The wife did NOT go overseas with her husband and instead is having a clandestine rendezvous with another man...a violent man who soon begins slapping her around and verbally abusing her. Then, just as she breaks away from the beast and is about to stab him, shots ring out....Secret Servicemen dispatch the woman about to kill the President. Yes, the President of the US is a violent perv...and Luther saw the woman murdered before his very eyes. Fortunately no one saw him in the hidden room and Luther leaves...absconding with some of the evidence just in case he needs it.
Now the idea of a President being a perverted, corrupt piece of crap isn't why I said that the film is unrealistic...I COULD buy that. But for Luther to fight the President AND Secret Service and do so well against them...well, that seems extremely unrealistic. Just turn off your brain as you watch...it IS a good film provided you stop your brain from thinking out the plot too much.
Luther (Clint Eastwood) is a career super-thief...with amazing skills and daring as well as a man who's never been caught. However, when he breaks into a rich man's home and raids the guy's hidden vault, things go from fantastic to horrible in a matter of no time. The hidden room is chock full of money and jewels...and Luther is making a big haul. But in the midst of doing this, some folks arrive home unexpectedly. The wife did NOT go overseas with her husband and instead is having a clandestine rendezvous with another man...a violent man who soon begins slapping her around and verbally abusing her. Then, just as she breaks away from the beast and is about to stab him, shots ring out....Secret Servicemen dispatch the woman about to kill the President. Yes, the President of the US is a violent perv...and Luther saw the woman murdered before his very eyes. Fortunately no one saw him in the hidden room and Luther leaves...absconding with some of the evidence just in case he needs it.
Now the idea of a President being a perverted, corrupt piece of crap isn't why I said that the film is unrealistic...I COULD buy that. But for Luther to fight the President AND Secret Service and do so well against them...well, that seems extremely unrealistic. Just turn off your brain as you watch...it IS a good film provided you stop your brain from thinking out the plot too much.