clint-taylor
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The thing this transformers movie has that the others doesn't is focus. It has a story and a handful of characters that are small enough to get ample attention and development. Still with a smaller scale, the story doesn't seem to add to a greater narrative.
The biggest issue for me with this movie is, a common issue I see, the failure to market thr movie properly. The trailers make it seem like an external adventure in grand scale with an interesting high concept world & even some sort of mystery or danger yet to emerge.
That's not it. The movie is really just a slow moving inward jourey of a man finding his place in his small world (pun intended).
So going in I onviously had different expectations (like many). So when the movie really puts on the brakes at about 35 minutes in, after the setting is explained, and never again picks up speed, I had trouble staying with it.
I'm a fan of Paynes other films but this one can't decide whether it's a soft character study or a cool thought peice. The problem I felt was he crafted this amazingly cool and interesting world with new and interesting problems and places to explore but he then just focused on the most boring & vanilla character as the lead man.
That could have been the point, but it made for flat cinema in my opinion.
That's not it. The movie is really just a slow moving inward jourey of a man finding his place in his small world (pun intended).
So going in I onviously had different expectations (like many). So when the movie really puts on the brakes at about 35 minutes in, after the setting is explained, and never again picks up speed, I had trouble staying with it.
I'm a fan of Paynes other films but this one can't decide whether it's a soft character study or a cool thought peice. The problem I felt was he crafted this amazingly cool and interesting world with new and interesting problems and places to explore but he then just focused on the most boring & vanilla character as the lead man.
That could have been the point, but it made for flat cinema in my opinion.
This is a movie that wants to be more than it ever can be. In the end I think the movie wanted to be two films, yet both have deep flaws. First lets talk about the political movie its trying to be. Critics and movie-goers have been claiming the political message is a bit heavy handed, this is the understatement of the year. We hear Bush's voice, Obama's voice and various commentators from radios and TV's so many times throughout the film that when it kept happening I could do nothing but roll my eyes. There were literally multiple scenes that end it just the camera centered on a TV with Barack Obama or George Bush speaking on it. The opening sequence alone is enough to make any film lover nervous for what they are about to experience. I had very high hopes and wanted to like this movie, but the blatant political agenda of the film completely damaged the more subtle political implications the film could have had on the viewer. The final speech at the end of the movie also could have been great, and although it was entertaining, no one really wants political advice from murderous gangsters. (views on founding fathers and America)
The second movie it's trying to be is much better than the political movie but still it is only an average gangster film that falls short due to unimportant and underdeveloped characters. Brad Pitts character is by far the most interesting but even he fails to become a three dimensional character until the very last scene. We have all seen the story before, job goes wrong and the heavies come to make it right. It is really nothing new and although the slow motion scenes were fun and the music reminded us Of Tarantino or Scorsese, it was still a film that feels as if its reaching for what it couldn't acquire.
Sum It Up: The obnoxiously overbearing political approach is incredibly off putting which makes Killing Them Softly ultimately another frustrating movie because we know it could have been so much more. Some scenes play out brilliantly but are only shattered in the next few minutes as we nearly choke on the political matter and meet another character that doesn't really matter.
The second movie it's trying to be is much better than the political movie but still it is only an average gangster film that falls short due to unimportant and underdeveloped characters. Brad Pitts character is by far the most interesting but even he fails to become a three dimensional character until the very last scene. We have all seen the story before, job goes wrong and the heavies come to make it right. It is really nothing new and although the slow motion scenes were fun and the music reminded us Of Tarantino or Scorsese, it was still a film that feels as if its reaching for what it couldn't acquire.
Sum It Up: The obnoxiously overbearing political approach is incredibly off putting which makes Killing Them Softly ultimately another frustrating movie because we know it could have been so much more. Some scenes play out brilliantly but are only shattered in the next few minutes as we nearly choke on the political matter and meet another character that doesn't really matter.
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