Freedomland 2006 123movies

Watch: Freedomland 2006 123movies, Full Movie Online – Late one evening, Brenda Martin, a thirty-seven year old Caucasian woman from the proverbial wrong side of the tracks, enters Dempsy Medical Center in Dempsy, New Jersey with minor injuries, but she is also emotionally distraught. One of the people to who she tells her story is Dempsy Police Detective Lorenzo Council, a black man. That story is that she was just carjacked by another unknown black man when she took a shortcut that she had never traveled between the Armstrong housing projects, where she works at the Rainbow Club, a children’s center, and her home in Gannon, New Jersey. Her emotional distress is because her four year old son, Cody, was asleep in the back seat of the car and is thus now in the hands of the carjacker. Brenda’s brother, Danny Martin, a police detective in Gannon, cannot help but get directly involved in the investigation despite he operating outside his jurisdiction. His actions do not sit well with Council, who he insinuates is not only not doing his job, but is protecting his own “people”, i.e. the primarily black populace in the Armstrong housing projects. In addition, the residents of the projects feel that Brenda is getting special treatment as a white woman, as several children have gone missing from the projects without such a frenzied police intervention, which is unnecessarily and unfairly disrupting their lives. Karen Collucci with Friends of Kent, a volunteer organization that conducts searches for missing children, also offers their services, which Council eventually accepts with the caveat that they work under his directive. “Kent” was Collucci’s own son never found, his disappearance which destroyed her personal life. Through the process, Council can’t help but think that Brenda isn’t telling them the entire story….
Plot: A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.
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Ratings:

	5.1/10 Votes: 16,463
	23% | RottenTomatoes
	43/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 277 Popularity: 11.496 | TMDB

Reviews:

Not even a good try
This movie was a real disappointment to me. All the elements for a fine picture were here. Good story, good actors. Sadly, the picture was not put together well. First blame should go to the director who was not able to restrict himself to the story lines he would be able to tell effectively. Next to blame is also the director who edited the film with superfluous characters and dead end plot lines. Several very good acting performances were squandered in this mishmash. Julliene Moore and Samuel L. were great (As always). Ron Eldard is a favorite of mine. He never gets the romantic lead, but provides great dramatic wallop. Unfortunately his character had nothing to do with the story. Typically, the scene where he overhears the confession of Billy is meaningless, nothing comes of it and his character disappears afterward. I’m not sure this was even a good try. Save your money.

Awful, awful, awful….did I mention it was pretty bad?
Thanks to the last couple of years in moviedom, I can assure you that Julianne Moore is about as apt a choice to babysit your child as is say, .Freddy Krueger.

It was just months ago that Ms. Moore lost her child to aliens in The Forgotten and now – based more in a script of reality – she loses yet another youngin in the new mixed up drama/thriller Freedomland.

Freedomland stars Julianne Moore as Brenda Martin. Brenda is about as mixed up as cake batter. We first get introduced to her as she walks blocks to the nearest hospital and wastes copious amounts of time before revealing that she was carjacked and that her young son was in the backseat of the vehicle and is now somewhere in the hands of the black man who pulled her out of her car.

Enter one Lorenzo Council (the usually reliable Samuel L. Jackson). Lorenzo is the detective that gets assigned Brenda in the hospital and he stumbles when he hears the news about the missing child. In fact, his actions would be how Benny Hill might react to the same situation. He asks the same questions twice over and gets so excited that he needs a shot in order to calm him down and regulate his breathing. If this wasn’t sign enough that Brenda just got assigned the most inept cop to try and find son, just wait a couple of scenes and watch how Lorenzo doesn’t notice that there is a large red truck following him around – that is until such time as the plot requires the reveal.

So with the blind leading the blind, the story takes on many avenues. First, we get introduced to Danny Martin (Ron Eldard) who is both a cop and the uncle of the missing child. He quickly gets the men in uniform to scour the black neighborhood and has the power to set up barricades to ensure that the poor and impoverished are in a modern day lock-down. He beats up potential witnesses and runs interference to Lorenzo’s more tranquil and relaxed investigation.

Next, we get introduced to Edie Falco as Karen Collucci, a mother who lost a child herself and offers her counseling and organization skills to help in the search for the young boy. Her keen acumen leads a group of searchers to Freedomland – a forest on the outside of town – which in turn provides us with the pivotal reveal of the film.

I could ruin the reveal to you – and I should just to spare you from wasting your time and money on this dud – but what the hell, knock yourself out with the rental when it becomes available in about 5 weeks.

What I can reveal is that Freedomland is awful. A movie with Moore, Jackson and Falco directed by onetime studio boss Joe Roth (who comes off one of last years worst in Christmas with the Kranks), should have been on the must-see list. Instead, we have a movie that is so convoluted and disorganized that it is hard to believe that Richard Price took his own novel to produce this mess of a screenplay.

Hmmmmm. Maybe that was the problem. Maybe the novel had so many characters and ideas that as screenwriter, Price didn’t know what to leave off while keeping himself happy while maintaining the integrity of the chapters. Who knows. All I know is that I don’t care.

Freedomland is a disaster. From beginning to end, it plays the race card unconvincingly whenever it wants and the big showdown between Moore and Jackson went on so long that I kept looking on the armrest for the converter to fast forward the scene.

Look for Freedomland to hit my Worst of List at the conclusion of the year. In the meantime, avoid at all costs.

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Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 53 min (113 min), 1 hr 52 min (112 min) (cut) (Philippines)
Budget 37665000
Revenue 14655628
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director Joe Roth
Writer Richard Price
Actors Julianne Moore, Samuel L. Jackson, Edie Falco
Country United States
Awards 2 wins & 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory EFILM Digital Laboratories, Hollywood (CA), USA (digital intermediate), DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length 3,119 m (Portugal, 35 mm), 3,140 m (Finland)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 500T 5218, Vision 320T 5277)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Super 35 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic) (Kodak Vision 2383)