The 25th Hour

Saw The 25th Hour. I liked it a lot. The storyline is fairly straightforward but there were three scenes that really struck me: a monologue about the ugliness of new york city, another montage about the beauty of new york city and a wistful plan to escape a jail sentence. Those three scenes are dynamite. There's some stuff about 9/11 (this movie came out in 2002,) but despite being integral to the staging of many scenes, it almost feels tacked-on. I don't know what to think about those scenes. A lively film.