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MEMORY

May 4, 2022 By Leave a Comment

MEMORY

Based on the delightfully quirky 2003 Belgian film, The Memory of a Killer, MEMORY has the makings of a solid neo-noir. Alas, rather than a tight script to match its excellent visual acuity, MEMORY rambles too much before leading us down the familiar path of corruption in high places and the loss of innocence across… Read More »

Tagged With: Child sex trafficker, corruption, Early onset Alzheimer's, El Paso, hitman, Mexico, pigeons in a bakery, remake, The Memory of A Killer

COPSHOP

September 19, 2021 By Leave a Comment

COPSHOP

Click here for the flashback interview with Joe Carnahan and Frank Grillo for THE GREY. There has rarely been such an effusive, even whimsical, satire on violence as that which is found in Joe Carnahan’s COPSHOP. This blackest of black comedies adroitly combines tension and goofiness with an insouciance that is nothing short of breathtaking.… Read More »

Tagged With: Arizona, besieges police station, bullet-ridden car, corruption, desert, hitman, tracheotomy

THE ASSIGNMENT

April 5, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE ASSIGNMENT

The subject matter in Walter Hill’s THE ASSIGNMENT will make half the audience cringe in a way that the other half, no matter how empathetic, won’t be able to fully understand. And that’s sly. This brutal exercise in gender studies, masquerading as a biting action-noir fable, is rife with irony and with bald truths designed… Read More »

Tagged With: gender, gender reassignment, hitman, mental institution, noir, pain assissin, revenge, sanity, surgery

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2

February 9, 2017 By 1 Comment

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 starts with Mr. Wick doing what he does best. That would be mowing his way through a horde of adversaries with a cool precision and a lethal effect. While he is doing this, we are reminded, or introduced to, if we haven’t see the first film, just who exactly Mr. Wick… Read More »

Tagged With: assassin, code of honor, debt of honor, hall of mirrors, hitman, marker, martial arts, New York City, Rome, shoot out

HITMAN: AGENT 47 A Swing and A Miss

August 21, 2015 By Leave a Comment

HITMAN: AGENT 47 A Swing and A Miss

This is not the first time that someone has attempted to bring the video game upon which HITMAN: AGENT 47 is based to the big screen. The last one, HITMAN starring a pre-Justified Timothy Olyphant went down in flames, and this one joins its still-smoldering carcass.  It’s not that making a film out of a video… Read More »

Tagged With: action, assassin, black wool suit, car chase, contract killing, fantasy, genetic engineering, hitman, knifing, missing scientist, secret organizations, video game

HITMAN

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

HITMAN

Sometimes all it takes is one great image. From there the fertile imaginings of a visionary filmmaker can build a story that is a compelling, even wondrous, cinematic experience. Alas, that is not the case with HITMAN. The image is of a striking bald guy (Timothy Olyphant) in a well-tailored black suit striding about with… Read More »

Tagged With: assassin, contract killing, genetic engineering, hitman, Interpol, Timothy Olyphant, video game, violence

REVOLVER

October 21, 2014 By 1 Comment

REVOLVER

Caution! Guy Ritchie has entered his Bergman phase. Ingmar Bergman. Having stylishly plumbed the depths of the action genre with his dazzling visual style and staccato pacing as crisp as the wrong end of a machine gun, he has decided to attempt something more. And for this he should be lauded. Alas, with REVOLVER he… Read More »

Tagged With: ex-con, hitman, shootouts, violence

William Friedkin Takes on KILLER JOE

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

William Friedkin Takes on KILLER JOE

William Friedkin has made few movies over the last five decades or so, and when I spoke with him on July 11, 2012, he explained his reasons. The man who made THE EXORCIST, THE FRENCH CONNECTION, and SORCERER is not a man to compromise what he wants to achieve in a film. His preferred subject,… Read More »

Tagged With: Dallas police, drama, Emile Hirsch, Fritz Lang, Gina Gershon, hitman, Juno Temple, Matthew McConaughey, murder for hire, NC-17, noir, Thomas Haden Church, Tracy Letts, William Friedkin

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and LOOPER

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and LOOPER

When I spoke with Joseph Gordon-Levitt on September 12, 2012, it wasn’t with his latest film, Rian Johnson’s LOOPER, that I wanted to start. Instead, I was curious about why he had flown to thousands of miles in order to make a cameo of only a few seconds in Johnson’s second film, THE BROTHERS BLOOM. The… Read More »

Tagged With: actor, Bruce Willis, career choices, cinema, drama, film, hitman, Jacques Prevert, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, LOOPER, movie, murder for hire, narrative, PREMIUM RUSH, Rian Johnson, science fiction, THE BROTHERS BLOOM, time travel, work-related injury

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