Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Let's be realistic.

Awesome Movie

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

David Duchovney creates a role that he was to replicate somewhat in Californication - the troubled talent. And it is a role he plays well.This thriller starts off at a good speed and carries you through to the end. Timothy Hutton plays a fine villain and Angelina Jolie pouts. The story of a disgraced doctor finding his way into a criminal world is well scripted. Drug addiction and a desire for the sultry Jolie mix a heady cocktail. Unfortunately towards the end the story gets a little weaker and the relationships between villains and the FBI is muddled and rushed as if it was created only to develop the final scene. But, that aside, a movie worth seeing.

I went into the experience of watching this movie expecting very little. I wanted to see the movie ever since I saw the preview for it years ago. I wasn't even aware that Angelina Jolie was in this. I'm not a great fan of David Duchovny. Timothy Hutton I expected to play his usual 'charming criminal role' and not do much more. That said, I was truly pleasantly surprised. The film had a nice even pace, lots of blood-spattering gun play and very little sex. In fact, I don't recall Angelina Jolie planting those huge lips of hers on anybody. Hmmm.David Duchovny played his part to perfection. Next to Angelina Jolie, his slouching casual self, muted by his dope habit, could have easily been a drooling fool captivated by her 'loose woman' persona. Instead, befitting an ultra-cool guy with years of education and socialization behind him, he turned it way down and was the cool hipster dealing with really evil hipsters who, like himself, always had some drugs in a pocket or the glove compartment. And like a cool hipster, he naturally kept encountering more and more cool hipsters. Like the bikers on the road who turn out to be allies when he is on the run.He had great lines, as did Timothy Hutton. He showed a mastery of timing, as did Timothy Hutton. Angelina kind of passed from man to man, looking beautiful but NOT having great lines and not having much of a history. I am glad I ordered this film from Amazon and finally got to see it. It was satisfying if you like any of the aforementioned actors. I liked Angelina Jolie in this film and I usually don't. She just looked good - good enough to make men want her but not interesting enough for anyone to want to get to know her.

Yesterday I watched this movie on television and I'm not very happy about it.Script can pass as OK but other things can't.First,director Andy Wilson didn't do nothing special,so ordinary directing with few flaws.Second,casting is not good.David Duchovny doesn't have anything to be a leading actor in this movie.That scene when he raises his voice to say something is more funny then it is authoritative.He's very poor actor and his highest achievement are X-Files.Angelina Jolie also nothing,zero,bad.Why did she won Oscar?The way she acted is easy and that role could do any other actress.Only Timothy Hutton left some impression on me.He's mean and that suits him right.He can be good guy and bad too.He's the reason this movie can pass.Because of Hutton 5/10.

PLAYING GOD, a failed attempt from David Duchovny to kick start a movie career, is a big-screen vehicle in desperate need of repair. He plays a disgraced M.D. who saves the life a shooting victim - a henchman of local crime boss played by Timothy Hutton. Impressed with his currently unused talents, Hutton hires Duchovny as his gang's full-time doctor. This premise could have made an interesting thriller, but the plot just drunkenly stumbles along, stocking up on clichés (soft-boiled monotonous voice-overs; technoesque soundtrack; pointlessly artsy cinematography) like they're going out of style, until the storyline creates a level of ennui in the viewer that's too much for anyone to bear. And Hutton is about as menacing as a squirt gun.