I wasn't that thrilled with PLAYING GOD because it has not that many reviews and a score of 5,5. However after looking the cast, and being some sort of masochist that watches movies that nobody would seek today, I bit the bullet.
Eugene Sands (David Duchovny) is a disgraced surgeon that had his license revoked after performing under the influence of amphetamines. However in a bar he manages to save someone with an emergency procedure inflating a collapsed lung. Sands is noticed by crime lord Raymond Blossom (Timothy Hutton) and Blossom hires him as his personal physician that has to help his accomplices when they can't go to hospitals after botched robberies and the like. In all this Sands falls for Blossom's gorgeous girlfriend Claire (Angelina Jolie), and after a while Eugene is torn between his loyalty to Raymond, his passion for Claire and the FBI agent who costantly blackmails him. How it ends is just something you have to see.
This was meant to be David Duchovny's first big movie after his success with X FILES, and he was actually decent. Timothy Hutton plays a nice villanious role, not surprising for him and Angelina Jolie seems to have no other purpose than looking super gorgeous. The problems were that the pace was a bit too slow in points and the character's motivations and subsequent actions didn't have a lot of sense. And the ending, wow that was confusing.
Not a terrible movie by any means but still a missed opportunity. With two hot actors of the time and a gorgeous rising starlet it looked promising, but instead, with a script that must have had lots of edits it ended up being confusing.
Eugene Sands (David Duchovny) is a disgraced surgeon that had his license revoked after performing under the influence of amphetamines. However in a bar he manages to save someone with an emergency procedure inflating a collapsed lung. Sands is noticed by crime lord Raymond Blossom (Timothy Hutton) and Blossom hires him as his personal physician that has to help his accomplices when they can't go to hospitals after botched robberies and the like. In all this Sands falls for Blossom's gorgeous girlfriend Claire (Angelina Jolie), and after a while Eugene is torn between his loyalty to Raymond, his passion for Claire and the FBI agent who costantly blackmails him. How it ends is just something you have to see.
This was meant to be David Duchovny's first big movie after his success with X FILES, and he was actually decent. Timothy Hutton plays a nice villanious role, not surprising for him and Angelina Jolie seems to have no other purpose than looking super gorgeous. The problems were that the pace was a bit too slow in points and the character's motivations and subsequent actions didn't have a lot of sense. And the ending, wow that was confusing.
Not a terrible movie by any means but still a missed opportunity. With two hot actors of the time and a gorgeous rising starlet it looked promising, but instead, with a script that must have had lots of edits it ended up being confusing.