Have you ever seen blood in the moonlight, Will? It appears quite black.
Eeriness and terror, bathed in Spinotti’s blues and set to a moody synth rock score. There are two scenes that stick out to me as particular high points. One is between Graham and his son, where Graham explains how he does his job. He’s good at catching bad guys because he can learn how to think like them; he puts bad guys away while walking on the…
I’m gonna die historic on the Fury Road!
Thus commences the greatest chase sequence set to film. The speaker is Nux, a war boy, one of the cancer-ridden pieces of cannon fodder who’s life consists of putting the pedal to the metal in the service of his false god, Immortan Joe. Joe’s kingdom, the Citadel, is a diseased society, both in that almost everybody suffers the effects of radiation poisoning, and, more importantly for this review, in its unhealthy sexual…
I bet Michael Mann likes this a lot. Grimy and yet classical.
“I didn’t know this was a fight.”
“That’s why you’re losing.”
So, I don’t know how this happened, but the writers of God’s Not Dead actually made a movie that is 85% genuinely good. Sean Patrick Flanery is excellent. There are some very obvious reasons people will hate it, not the least of which is how brutally it hits America’s beloved institution of baby murder, so take all the negative reviews with a tablespoon of salt. There’s one noticeably forced…
