banhei
Joined Jul 2012
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With such an obscure production company for a film, a film I only learned about recently, and Peter O'Toole in it so briefly (that I'd read about in advance, but I'm such a fan I watched it just for him, and he was great) I figured O'Toole might have appeared in junk because it was a quick in-and-out job with a nice paycheck for the blink-of-an-eye expended. But the movie was good (that the screenplay was based on a novel-that I only noticed in the closing credits-helps explain why the script was more literate than I expected). And my not paying attention to the opening credits meant that Omar Sharif appearing on the screen came as a total surprise! As a LAWRENCE OF ARABIA fan, to see O'Toole and Sharif together again in the same movie (if not the same scene) was crazy cool! I don't think they've appeared in any other movies together, which made this "reunion" special.
Better than most Tarantino movies I've seen. I start off with the preceding sentence because so many of these trashing-it reviews here say it's a wannabe Tarantino film. I walked out of RESERVOIR DOGS I thought it was so bad, but stuck with this movie to the end. Truman Capote wrote a brilliant short story titled "Shut a Final Door" that's a study of the sociopathic (although not homicidal) personality partly from the sociopath's perspective, and this film has a similar aspect I found intriguing. I thought the acting was quite good and that much of the mordant dialogue worked. Counterintuitively, the movie actually reminded me in a way of WATERWORLD, most of which I quite liked up until it fell apart at the end (you can tell where its main director quit/was fired). P. S. The string of 1-star reviews that start these reviews is soooo consistent, the mega-negativity almost seriously makes me wonder if they were written by actors who failed auditions for this movie...or some such...almost.