Good flick. It isn?t supposed to ever take itself seriously, and never trods that ground. There is always a lot of subtlety behind whatever Limon does and it exists here too, enough to pull you in if you can see it. Every action scene is somewhat cheeky, they are used here more for layering and underlying the relationship than for any sort of derisive trail or acme to the movie.
In one scene Pitt is attempting to reenter his locked house where his gun wielding wife is attempting to blow his head off. He cracks a pain of glass on the second floor, then interestingly, pauses to check for bullets coming his way, as they might, had he alerted her to his presence. Near the end a reference back to the beginning of the film but also to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid keeps you guessing as to the outcome of the last act.
Though the script is somewhat choppy toward the end and the editing room did them no favors with the final cut especially with the final scene, the whole story works well enough. Far far more interesting characters than War of the Roses, as someone here remarked, and personalities (actors) that hold your interest in a much more associative way.
The fairly well educated crowd in my area laughed along throughout and clapped at the end.
M
Saturday, October 6, 2007
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