Nr. / Year: 1949
Country: Japan
A great police drama marred down by an overlong length, and some excessive direction from Akira Kurosawa. The plot of a police rookie tracking down his stolen gun -and the amatuer mistakes he makes along the way- makes for a compelling story in a of itself, especially since Toshirō Mifune in the lead performance as Murakami, who is equally driven and remorseful, since his stolen gun was used to commit…
Nr. / Year: 1952
Country: U.S.A.
David Miller directs Joan Crawford in this noir inspired psycho-drama that has a very unusual style for the time, in that it balances hapless romance of the first half of the film with a gender role reversal murder plot in the second half - Jack Palance plays Lester Blaine, a young actor who seduces famous playwrite Myra Hudson (Crawford), who is also incidentally the heiress to a large fortune. Lester's…
There's no real permanence or tension to any of the stakes or action that happens on screen, so when a character is in danger, or dies, you feel that they are going to come back in the next film. There are too many scenes of cgi characters punching eachother that my interest waned far too quickly into the bloated two and a half hour running time, which is disappointing since I really enjoyed all the recent Marvel movies since "Captain…
