FUCK - BLACK BAG was a whole bag of fun!
Pitch it as TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY meets WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (I may have stolen that from some other review) or Frederick Forsyth's MR. AND MRS. SMITH.
Been a while since I've enjoyed a movie that just hit the ground running and required the audience to keep up with it. Not necessarily being tricky, as much as laying out information without the closeup or character's arch response to…
I love that this the "weird" version of Daffy Duck.
DAMN.
This was not what I expected.
It's got the mood/vibe of a modern TAXI DRIVER.
Majors is really good in it, running through a lot of emotions and acting choices. This is full-on ACTING, "show clips at the Academy Awards" type of thing.
I think he would've gotten a nomination for it... maybe he still will.
Killian is not an easy character from the start. But the more the film goes, the more the easy judgement of him falls…
