Classmate with John Wick as a 2014 offering that twisted self-assuredly pulpy DTV actioner style with a bigger than expected star. (Love and respect for Keanu, but Denzel's a bigger banana on that front) Charlie Bronson may have been dead for a decade when it was released, but the action geezers yearn for additional Death Wish installments.
So let Unc work at the hardware store in the daytime then weaponize his autism on the Russian mob at nights & weekends.
Fungal infection zombies are demi-creative, particularly about a decade ago. 2nd generation infected having a symbiotic existence with said fungus a little more so. Pitch prefect 1st act then meanders into the standard genre beats. Well cast and acted though. Good at building tension in its setups.
Tone gets washed away in the finale though. Tries to present as a happy, humanist 'life finds a way' resolution. Except the human clad gets superceded by a fungus. That can work in…
Me 🤝 Lily-Rose Depp 🤝 Orson Welles & the '82 César Awards 🤝 Jacques Deray & the '81 Cannes jury: thinking Isabelle Adjani's performance in Possession was something else.
Seemed that my audience grinned and bore it based on overheard chatter on the walk out. I had more mixed reaction. I don't hold with the most gloomy "Egger's penchant for meticulous research has overtaken his filmmaking capacity" assessments.
Yet it does have the aura of a well-appointed banquet hall serving Swanson's Thanksgiving…
Long live the fighters!
Chris Nolan has the crux of it as DV's Empire Strikes Back. Star Wars and Empire have a dynamic in which Star Wars worldbuilds a setting then Empire shows you a story that setting can sustain. Similar relationship for Part 1 and Part 2 under Denis Villeneuve.
And what a story we have, paced so those 167 minutes melt away. A religion and politics war adventure informed by Quebec's Quiet Revolution. Love contending with destiny and…
