There’s a scene in this movie where Denzel’s character is staring straight into the camera, desperately trying to convince another character and himself that there’s a part of them deep down that can’t be touched by the mysterious and corrupt forces that pull the strings of the world. Damn, I felt that.
This is the kind of star-packed, character-driven psychological thriller that they just don’t make anymore. The perfect at-home rainy day movie. Liev Shrieber should’ve been starring in two…
A perfect movie to start your Godard journey. Funny, insightful, technically adventurous. There’s a quality to the humor that, coupled with the occasional breaking of the fourth wall, that gives things a looney toons quality. It feels like bugs bunny, Jessica rabbit, and Daffy Duck are in a love triangle.
Godard is at his best, for me, when he’s making a whole movie out of a singular argument. Because how many times is an argument about everything BUT what the…
Careful. If you start here you’re going to want to binge every michael mann movie as quickly as possible.
Here we have a thief who wants lots of things - a house, a wife, kids... but in a michael mann movie, the lead has to have a drive he cannot ignore, and in this one, it’s survival. And Frank tells us early on that the way to survive is to care about nothing and no one
The diner scene…
