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...hardly deny that director Taylor Hackford (The Devil's Advocate) is a skilled craftsman (although I've always wondered how a filmmaker can make it when he has the word "hack" in his name). Proof of Life is a handsome and intelligent picture that's both paced and shot beautifully. The breath-taking, ultra-gritty finale, in which Thorne and his team of mercenaries attempt a daring rescue operation, is reminiscent of the best work of Michael Mann. And yet the finale is also the only point in the movie in which Hackford the storyteller is truly allowed to cast...
...worth nothing that Hackford, while no artistic genius, is a grown-up director and Proof of Life is one of those all too rare adult films that isn't interested in being hip or catering to the MTV generation. That alone makes it a picture worthy of admiration and gives hope that there are still a few serious, no-frills commercial filmmakers out there. Proof of Life is a flawed vision, but the fact that it even has a vision still puts this sweeping adventure-epic ahead of the game...
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...when he was shattered, frightened, in his darkest time," she recalls. "Yet this actor, after a day of golf, was able to intuit his throttled energy, his tension." Hollywood is equally impressed by the actor. Ridley Scott cast Crowe as the lead in next spring's Gladiator, and Taylor Hackford has just signed him to star opposite Meg Ryan in the romantic thriller Proof of Life...
MARRIED. HELEN MIRREN, 51, a very modern Miss Marple, whose detective work on Prime Suspect won her an Emmy, and TAYLOR HACKFORD, 53, her longtime companion and director of Dolores Claiborne; near Inverness, Scotland...