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The Lazarus Project

The Lazarus Project (2008)

October. 24,2008
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6
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PG-13
| Drama Thriller

After Ben Garvey foolishly turned back to crime, he thought his life was over when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. But his death sentence isn't quite what it seems, as Ben regains consciousness near an eerie psychiatric ward, where he's told he's been hired as the groundskeeper. With the state of his soul in question, and the love for his wife and daughter all the more real and powerful, Ben must figure out if he's truly cheated death, or if he's become part of something far more sinister.

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Taraparain
2008/10/24

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

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Salubfoto
2008/10/25

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

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Humbersi
2008/10/26

The first must-see film of the year.

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Fatma Suarez
2008/10/27

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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nims-1975
2008/10/28

The Lazarus Project is an Excellent Thriller with excellent acting by Paul Walker. This film is a very underrated film, classed by some viewers as slow, well that's completely rubbish and unfair. It's not slow at all, the films storyline about a man taken away from his wife and daughter and thrown into a haunting care home with people trying to get prison Ben Harvey to forget about his wife and kids and by Ben trying to find out is the place where he should really be, all the haunting flashbacks he gets of his wife and daughter by being on his own and people trying to deceive him etc is what the films about. The film is a very tense film and is just an amazing film. The film also has excellent acting by a great cast and Paul Walkers acting as Ben Garvey is absolutely brilliant.

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micke-bystrom
2008/10/29

One of the more boring movies I've started to watch and wanting to get into. Except the initial action scenes, which are OK but pretty routine, the acting is sub-par. The story is presented in a very boring fashion that doesn't entice you into wanting to learn more.Lines are spoken without emotion when that would be needed and multiple actors deliver without engagement as if it was a school play. Paul Walker (as Ben Garvey) is a tiny bit better than the characters on the side, but by the time the story has developed a bit you are already bored enough to ignore whatever he tried to put in. I think I'll avoid director John Glenn in the future.

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matthewworsley
2008/10/30

Basically everything after his execution was his little girls dream... U don't know it until literally the last 30seconds of the film. It finished with the girl fast asleep on the sofa and she even says I dream of daddy living in the forest etc... So if the whole film had been true she couldn't have possibly known this... It was all in the girls head , she missed her father. Over quite a good film even if the sorry was a little over complicated for a small girls dream. Perhaps not Paul walkers best work (not that he had much if any anyway) but I'd still recommend it. Other character were okay although the implant they had in their arms was never properly explained as to what it was for, come to think of there were quite a few holes in the story...

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jido_12345
2008/10/31

The cast's acting is definitely not the downfall of this movie. However it was a little bit dragging, then they tried to put in the twist and it never made go "what?!" or "what is going on here?!" instead i just simply said "really?... its obvious what the reality is and what the institution is trying to do" after all its said and done, when Ben goes back home... whats next? 1. he has no identity because apparently he is dead. how can a dead man live unnoticed? 2. surely the FBI or who the hell ever is responsible will do something about a man who was sentenced to execution is now freely roaming the state of Texas.the story line was simply a disappointment, it did not make sense and it does not add up.if you haven't seen shutter island, now that/s a movie with the twist this one tried to do!

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