![]() Better than "Brick" but worse than any other film noir that I can remember having seen and I have seen a lot of them. It is not an easy film to watch, and if you don't cringe at some of the goings on, I hope we never cross paths in a dark alley. It wasn't until Sid recognized this evil and the way that it was destroying his. I know that Winterbottom was trying to juxtapose the clean cut innocent exterior of the Affleck character with the sociopathic interior, but he overdoes it. I lived the life of the movie The Exorcist. I think a more competent director would have overcome that problem. A slow-burn low-budget effort, but ultimately effective I wrote this short review a while back but as it’s just getting it’s release (with a shiny new name) I thought I should blow the dust from the cover and post it as a new short review. Casey Affleck and Elias Koteas shine above a still very solid and talented cast, but I just didn't believe any of what transpired. a past where passion and greed collide in the violent world of gangsters. After he moves in, he is visited by a sexy ghost and begins to unravel the secrets of his former life in 1928. As far as the acting, it was uniformly strong. The lines between past and present are mysteriously blurred when a successful real estate agent develops a strange fixation with a run-down, vacant house that was formally owned by an organized crime family. Mumbled lines were often made harder to hear by overly loud country western swing background music. The sound editor should never work in film again. ![]() Blood Simple, Kill Me Again, Red Rock West, are all modern noir works of genius. ![]() For me John Dahl and the Coen Brothers are the best living noir directors. As her houseguests begin to turn murderously against each other, Sarah must determine whether her visions represent the preventable or the inevitable.or something entirely more sinister. ![]() I say that because it is most often a film that can work as style over substance and when it works that style is brilliant. Sarah, a teen with a history of mental illness, has a premonition of her friends impending deaths one night at a sleepover. A director can make or break a film, we all know that, but I would argue that film noir is the one genre where the director is most vital to the success of the film. ![]()
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