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Clockwise.
3 stars.
I saw this movie the year it came out and my initial thoughts centered on how the movie commented on the Korean class system. I still agree with this review. However, this time I had more thoughts about the family who lies to the wealthy family to their advantage.
In the beginning of the film, you’re introduced to this family and their failed past money schemes. That made me…
New England accents on parade accompanied by gay tension. 3 stars.
The Departed was really fun. It has us on the edge of our seats watching several characters keeping up a lie. There are SO many actors in this film. Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg, and Martin Sheen—to name a few.
I like the choice of Nicholson as a gangster. He wasn’t super scary to me though. His partner was more so believable to be scary. Nicholson…
The narration and music carry us through the film’s cringe scenes of Robert De Niro staring at people for too long, stalking women, and playing with guns half naked in his apartment.
3 1/2 stars.
Taxi Driver is mixed with notes of “film noir” and “is he a serial killer?” Robert De Niro plays a squirrelly ex-marine who wants a job that can distract him from his thoughts. “Something with long hours” as he says in the film.
Everything about…
The ending was meh. I really wanted it to go in another direction but was left with a blue-balled hand holding scene.
2 1/2 stars
Heat’s overall story is really fun and perhaps inspired “Catch Me If You Can.” You follow two male leads on a path of cat and mouse. Al Pacino, a well seasoned detective versus Robert De Niro, a sly and clever robber. (Val Kilmer is also there as a quiet, long haired guy that you’re pretty…
