Killing Zoe
1994 Directed by Roger Avary
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The debut film from Tarantino’s buddy Roger Avery is an forcefully explicit statement. An American safe cracker comes to Paris with a woman to rob a bank that unsurprisingly gets them involved in a chase.
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It seems like the character of Eric has seen Dog Day Afternoon and Scarface too many times. The whole bank heist/last half is really good but the whole club drug scenes seems like waste of time for this film other than to show what screwups they are.
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Great cast; Eric Stoltz and Julie Deply give great performances, but it's Jean-Hugues Anglade who steals the show. Roger Avery creates plenty of unique shots here while also giving homage to classics like Dog Day Afternoon. He crafts a clever and shockingly underrated heist film.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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A very cool film with a standout performance by Jean-Hugnes Anglade.
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Watched this as Avary helped write the early Tarantino films, but this is a load of dated tosh. Couple of nice bits of dialogue but not worth your time.
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Fairly straight-forward heist movie.
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Not enough Julie Delpy.
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Watched this as Avary helped write the early Tarantino films, but this is a load of dated tosh. Couple of nice bits of dialogue but not worth your time.
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little known heist film penned by Tarantino. ok, but too predictable. would you rob a bank the morning after a massive herion binge? no, because it would go wrong. which it does. look out for a good performance from gary kemp.
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Started off seeming like an amateur student film trying to be cool, but the whole bank sequence was pretty intense.
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A more simplistic heist flick for the sex and violence lover in all of us. No techno-twattery or posturing, just the basic "here's the blueprints of the bank, apply dynamite here and here". But before that, we get a bizarre first half where an American safecracker arrives in Paris, shags a hooker (the lovely Julie Delpy, in my favourite topless scene of all time) while Nosferatu plays in the background, then teams up with his old mate and gang of criminals. They then indulge in a good old fashioned night of debauchery - drink, drugs, jazzclubs and sodomy. Probably not the best way to spend the night before the biggest heist in French history, but boys will be boys I…
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Parts of it are really quite excellent, while parts of it feel very dated to the 1990's.
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It seems like the character of Eric has seen Dog Day Afternoon and Scarface too many times. The whole bank heist/last half is really good but the whole club drug scenes seems like waste of time for this film other than to show what screwups they are.
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I enjoyed the first half of the film where the characters are introduced more that I did the second when all the action takes place.
Written and directed by Roger Avary it's no where near as polished as his other work produced at around the same time: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and the uncredited True Romance, but then he didn't have one Quentin Jerome Tarantino to collaborate with.
But overall I'd agree that it's a cool film and worthy of it's cult status.