Ostriig on 25/9/2008 at 19:25

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Right. Disappointing. Went to see this movie just a couple of hours earlier. I saw Heat some time ago, a couple of times, actually, and I fucking loved it. Well thought up, well executed, they both played beautifully. Naturally, I had high hopes when it came to the second movie featuring both De Niro and Pacino. It really was the first movie I've been passionately looking forward to for a long while now. But I ended up feeling like I was holding a copy of Invisible War all over again.

The movie definitely has some high points. The ending was quite good, and I was rather enthusiastic about seeing 50 pence have his brains blow out, his horrible performance enough of a reason for it, but for the most part it was mediocre. It's strange seeing these two great actors playing roles that don't really fit them, surprising as that may be, which is emphasized by them being on the same side for most of the film. The only time they stand out is when they are opposite, confrontational (sort of), a bit like the diner scene in Heat. Aside from that, I felt the story was overall quite poor, barely saved by that plot twist in the denouement, and that the other characters, too, were poorly developed and quite forgettable.

I don't know, I'd just hoped for more. So I guess I felt like sharing my frustration. Anyone else seen this one?

Ostriig on 25/9/2008 at 20:45

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Point, I misspoke. I meant a movie where they play together in the same scene, face to face. :)

Angel Dust on 26/9/2008 at 00:58

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Both those actors have been more than a little off with their choices in the last 10 years and as soon as I saw that this film was being directed by Jon Avnet the hack responsible for the apparently, I didn't actually see it but the trailer looked truely awful and the reviews only confirmed my suspicions, atrocious '88 minutes' I had zero interest in seeing this film.

On a somewhat related note I re-watched 'Heat' last week and it's still aces.

Angel Dust on 26/9/2008 at 04:50

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I can see how someone could see it that way, overwrought, but I think it totally works. It's just a super stylish, lurid and willfully unrealistic cops 'n' robbers epic. I feel it's not really that disimilar in that regard to 'The Untouchables' although tonally they are quite different films.

Scots Taffer on 26/9/2008 at 09:12

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Bear in mind, it's still a good crime movie - I just found chunks of it to be unnecessary and wanky.