"The world turned around him leaving him miraculously untouched. The croupier had reached his goal."
Cool movie with a cool performance in the middle from Clive Owen. I like gambling movies in general - parts of this remind me alot of Hard Eight, another one I'm a big fan of - and I think this is a clever subversion: Jack wants to always be in control so he never gambles, he just surrounds himself with gamblers because he thinks he…
This edit's definitely torn between being a character study about a pathetic little freak's marriage and being a large scale epic historical drama. They never really connect and since neither's allowed a focus for longer than a few consecutive scenes at most, I can't say I left with a greater understanding of Napoleon either as a man or a general.
But the small-scale stuff is frequently hilarious and the historical stuff is occasionally awe-inspiring when Ridley gets to flex on…
"If I keep staring at them, one moment it'll hit me. Instinctively."
a serial killer movie set in a country that's not inundated with these sorts of crimes and these sorts of stories. profiling is relegated to just instinct. crime scenes are trampled on. DNA evidence has to be sent to America for testing.
i was curious as to how Bong's famous tonal juggling act would work with such grim subject matter and, predictably, he plays it off masterfully. Song…
