Plot summary
I wanted to see this for two reasons:
1) Christopher McQuarrie - writer of The Usual Suspects and director of the criminally underrated Way of the gun was the writer/director.
2) Werner Herzog, director of The Bad Lieutenant and frequent Comedy Bang Bang guest was making his acting debut as the bad guy.
Well Herzog was fine, though barely in it, and the director half of writer/director was great. The film has some nice set pieces, and all of the action is clever and well-executed. The problems begin whenever there's expository dialogue. I don't know how much to blame on the source novel, but anytime there was a scene that didn't involve a fight things just ground to a halt. It doesn't help that the plot had a ton of holes in it, but plenty of other films have dealt with that. Here you just wanted everyone to stop talking, and donn't really care what happened with any of the ancillary characters. Really this could have been a 45 minute film with minimal talking, and would have been just as effective.
Don't get me wrong, the entertaining parts are very entertaining. Its just too bad the script didn't match up with the direction. Though since the director wrote it I guess I can just blame him for everything.
I wanted to see this for two reasons:
1) Christopher McQuarrie - writer of The Usual Suspects and director of the criminally underrated Way of the gun was the writer/director.
2) Werner Herzog, director of The Bad Lieutenant and frequent Comedy Bang Bang guest was making his acting debut as the bad guy.
Well Herzog was fine, though barely in it, and the director half of writer/director was great. The film has some nice set pieces, and all of the action is clever and well-executed. The problems begin whenever there's expository dialogue. I don't know how much to blame on the source novel, but anytime there was a scene that didn't involve a fight things just ground to a halt. It doesn't help that the plot had a ton of holes in it, but plenty of other films have dealt with that. Here you just wanted everyone to stop talking, and donn't really care what happened with any of the ancillary characters. Really this could have been a 45 minute film with minimal talking, and would have been just as effective.
Don't get me wrong, the entertaining parts are very entertaining. Its just too bad the script didn't match up with the direction. Though since the director wrote it I guess I can just blame him for everything.
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