Tedfoldol
everything you have heard about this movie is true.
TrueHello
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
Fatma Suarez
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
geonetsa
While it may or may not have been factual, seeing it for an entertaining movie, had it's merits.
sillypuzzle
I liked it. I thought Travolta did a pretty good job. He really did fit into the role as the protagonist, the ex biker tough guy who came back to his brother's home to settle down after being on the road partying and getting into trouble for years. As far as professional acting goes, this is one of Travolta's best performances.Kate Bosworth did a fantastic job playing the part of the niece who lost both her parents tragically and being left in the care of her uncle who was played by Travolta. The ending was great. Considering this was based on actual events it is mind boggling.The script is well written. The cast did a great job. I can't say enough about the ending. If you like fact based dramas then you will love this one. It is a nice touch how when it is going off during the credits it shows the pictures and names of some of the real linemen who lost their lives in the line of duty.The only thing I didn't like about it is that it needed to go into more details about the character played by Sharon Stone, Duncan's mother. I would have liked to have seen more concerning their relationship and more details on how his father was killed in the line of duty as a linemen.As far as goofs are concerned well they would have known about the big storm coming a few days in advance would they not? Either way it did not show them to know it was coming.
dkent213
If you don't want to waste your life away by watching an awful movie that sucks in so many ways, with poor acting and a very weak plot then DO NOT watch this movie... even if you do like John Travolta.Nothing in the movie is at all funny nor is it remotely interesting. Even the biggest scene with the storm was only about 15 minutes long.IT'S POOP I TELL YA, IT'S POOP!
Ed-Shullivan
I was so looking forward to this film which is classified as an action/drama film. Mrs. Shullivan and I both worked for the local utility company and we are aware that the risk these lineman (line persons) take working on high voltage systems is real, is extremely dangerous and has led to some unfortunate and untimely deaths.Life on the Line seems to portray all the lineman in this film as having personal demons, a group of hard drinking brothers, who appear to be standing in line waiting to get themselves killed in the line of duty. Even worse than the depressed characters of the main stars of this feature film were all the clichés that were used so often that I started gagging on my popcorn. The film did hold my attention for the first half, but as more and more clichés were expressed by the so-called heroes, and the irritating caption at the bottom of the screen kept appearing with the countdown days to the day of the big storm, you had to know someone was going to lose their "Life on the Line" eh?So the storm comes in more than just by the usual way (no spoiler here) and we see how when a life is lost a new generation of potential line persons are born. I don't think we have to worry about seeing a sequel to this film. Lights out....nothing more to report.
