12 August 2011

L'Hitch

À bout portant (Point blank)

Crit
Wow! Starts like a Tarantino, with confusing in media res, then looks like it's going to be an episode of a French remake of Prime Suspect (not that there would be anything wrong with that!), and then, incited by a familiar trope, but one that is spun in surprising ways, it settles down into Hitchcock wrongish-man territory, only with a French Connection-esque extended chase sequence. A character gets injected with adrenaline in the film, and it leeches out to us. Who needs Hollywood 3D comic book flicks for excitement?

2 comments:

paulus said...

in medias res

cheeseblab said...

Yeah, that too.