For all its flaws, it's still pretty effective, thanks to Scott Speedman and James Marsden.
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06/18/04
24th Day (2004)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:3
Rotten:11
Average Rating:3.7/10
Reviews for 24th Day
1 - 14 (sorted by critic A-Z; UK critics are listed first)
There's something deeply troubling, not to mention cruel, about Piccirillo's willingness to use AIDS as the ultimate consequence in a scenario about truth and sexual behavior, and about a scenario in which a gay man is once again targeted as patient zero.
05/14/04
Tony Piccirillo's independent video feature suggests a second-rate Off-Off Broadway play as it might have been captured on a camcorder by a doting parent.
05/13/04
Top CriticThe movie is never more than a hesitantly filmed recording of the play.
07/21/04
Top CriticBoasts one of the most ludicrous plots ever committed to digital video.
05/14/04
No amount of fidgety editing and anxious soundtrack atonality can distract from the creakingly implausible scenario.
05/11/04
The ceaseless twists and turns Piccirillo keeps introducing are at first intriguing, but eventually become tiresome, as if he's trying to hold our interest any way he can.
08/08/04
Scott Speedman and James Marsden, two talented and attractive actors who know how to hold attention, perform with depth and range.
05/20/04
What might have proved reasonably compelling onstage comes across as forced on film, with credibility taking a back seat to contrivance.
06/02/04
Top CriticAn ethically repugnant, relentlessly monotonous chamber drama that manages the difficult trick of boring and irritating its viewers simultaneously.
05/11/04
Can perhaps be commended for attempting to raise serious moral issues, but not for the ham-fisted way it does so.
06/20/04
Despite strong performances, this drawn-out Day feels like a cross between the claustrophobic play it once was, and the R-rated After-School Special it wants to be.
05/14/04
The battle of wits and the search for the truth goes along right up until the film’s unpredictable ending.
09/27/04
At times The 24th Day plays like a two-man actor's workshop. As navigated by talented actors and director, it nonetheless proves a riveting ride.
06/17/04
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