HOLY MOLY!!! What an absolute MASTERPIECE! Edward G Robinson and Steve McQueen are KILLING IT! Almost every fascinating character could have their own movie.
This is a poker movie. Everyone has a nickname, a talent, a backstory. Edward G Robinson is "The Man". The king of poker. Steve McQueen is "The Cincinnati Kid"; the one intent on becoming "The Man". The camera focuses close-up on the faces, the tics, the "tells". It focuses on how the players read each other,…
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The Cincinnati Kid 1965
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Copshop 2021
So, I'm sorta biased to like Joe Carnahan movies. He's a Sactown hero and I've been following his career since Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane. Copshop goes back to that BGBnO style where he's just having fun with film. Not as over-the-top as Smoking Aces, but as stylish and straightforward as it. This is his Assault on Precinct 13. A western-in-a-police-station movie.
It starts off with some odd murky heavily filtered outdoor scenes, which thankfully didn't last very long. But…Translated from by
