WHILE ON ISLA NUBLAR it's dumb action b-movie fun with b-movie caricatures opposite a-level effects, culminating in an artful shot of a dinosaur death that gently captures the gravity of the moment amongst the CGI chaos.
AFTER THE ISLAND it devolves into a half-baked haunted house movie that exposes the thinness of the characters in record time, while relentlessly dino-screaming in your face for the remainder of the runtime.
We talked about it in full, on the podcast.
Slow West is like if Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, and Jim Jarmusch bore a love child in New Zealand, then raised it in old west Colorado, with the life expectancy of a kiddie film's runtime. (And I mean that in the most complimentary way possible.)
Discussed in full on episode #139 of theCinereelists podcast.
In theaters October 31, 2014.
Wow, what a deliciously creepy film first-time director Dan Gillroy has here. Gyllenhaal plays his hand perfectly as a cold obsessive who finds career opportunity in capturing crime footage as fast and as grizzly as possible in order to sell it at the highest price to the local news, a pursuit that eventually leads him to bend the rules of the game - along with everyone around him. A+, would watch again.
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