The Pacifier (2005)

Paci

Who wouldn't love this movie! It's awesome and the whole family can enjoy it. September 18, 2008

Vin Diesel is the most EPIC actor of my generation

Pound for Pound, Vin Diesel is the best actor in Hollywood. With such critical acclaim from Fast and Furious, Chronicles of Riddick 1,2, &3...11, Saving Private Ryan (Caparzo, the guy who gets taken out by a sniper. He is without question very EPIC and if you didnt pick up the sarcasm, you probably wont enjoy his finer works in A Man Apart, XXX, and Boiler Room. But if you enjoy Lady in the Water, you'll enjoy Vin's entire catalogue. August 29, 2008

Good Quality Family Entertainment

In an age when most of what's on television is not worth watching, we've turned to buying DVD's and creating our own television programing. "The Pacifer" was a great addition to our library. It is one film we will definitely watch several times. April 24, 2008

Kindergarten Copy

I don't understand Vin Diesel. He starts off as a goofy-looking breakdancer, builds up muscles and a glass-swallowing voice, becomes an action-flick superstar, and then he makes this flaming pile of cow flop. What? He couldn't have made another Riddick movie? Fast and the Furious 12 not looking like a good career move? The Pacifier surely wasn't a better option.

Anyway, much like Arnold Schwarzanegger doing "Kindergarten Cop", Sly Stallone doing "Stop or My Mom Will Shoot", and Pacino doing "Scent of a Woman", Vin Diesel sold his acting sole for the almighty dollar.

Now his grisled voice makes him sound less like a tough guy, and more like a someone from Dateline's "To Catch A Predator". Great.

I'm not even sure I watched the entire movie because the sheer vapid nature and banality of this movie caused me to go into a boredom-coma. What I did catch, however, was the fact that Diesel plays a former Navy Seal who is assigned to protect some spoiled brats who deserve a beating. It's nothing but Kindergarten Cop in a different setting, complete with the military order shouting and incredibly corny lines meant to make slow children and awkwardly unaware foreigners laugh. The other thing I noticed was that Vin Diesel is incredibly unfunny, and has probably never told a successful joke in his life. In each scene he appeared to be looking for a car to race, a Russian terrorist to attack, or someone to beat-up.

If you like this movie, please never recommend a movie to me. March 7, 2008

Clod hopper movie

I saw the DVD of THE PACIFIER recently. This is the vehicle starring Vin Diesel as a baby sitter/Navy seal/talent director...This is also one of the films that makes no sense if you start asking questions about it, or wonder how one sequence led to another. I can't fault the actor too much. He had been out of a job, presumably, for requesting too much money, and this Jackie Chan reject for Disney was a step up. Let's see--as a Navy Seal, he is directly involved in the death of a man who is important to National Security. As a result, he has to take care of the guy's kids, while Mom has to search a bank vault in Switzerland...

And the more you continue to dig into the plot, the less sense it makes. The film was okay on the big screen. One of a series of loud cinematic explosions with a paper thin set of characters. Transferred to the home screen (19 inches), it seems like a blip.

There's a duck in this movie. I suspect if there was a dog, there would be some confusion with the lead. Vin Diesel still looks like a shar pei with all the wrinkles removed.

DVD extras aren't much either. February 3, 2008

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