seen before - '10 December "The Sopranos" [Season 2, USA '00] - 8.5 / 10
"The Bourne Identity" [USA D,, CZ '02
[USA, D, A '04 / Paul Greengrass] - 7.5 / 10
"The Bourne Ultimatum"
[USA '07 / Paul Greengrass] - 8.5 / 10
"Terminator"
[ USA, UK '84
"Kevin - alone in New York"
[USA '92 - 5 / 10
"Match Point"
[GB, USA, L '05 of the Dragon Emperor "
[USA '08 play off attempts. As the bodies pile up, the diabolical game quickly to the incalculable risks ...
criticism
The most striking feature of the plot: redefinition, restructuring. Say: From guns to katanas, from Clint Eastwood, Bruce Willis, from horses, cars, gangs and mafia-bat of the desert's goes off in the prohibition era. "Last Man Standing"
is the now countless others, turned by the cinematic variation of meat grinder at his models "Yojimbo - The Bodyguard"
(Akira Kurosawa) and
"A Fistful of Dollars"
(Sergio Leone) anchored "One against all" premise. This leftovers classical motifs has not been a commercial success. Today is "Last Man Standing"
an insider tip, especially for those who their first big night at the home theater want to make highly leaded. Apart from that, can
"Last Man Standing"
but no narrative uproot trees. Here the film flirts an audiovisual corset that can be described as his greatest strength. The first hint of an uncompromising neo-Westerns manifested in bone-dry images of a desolate ghost town in the middle of nowhere. Run-down shacks at each corner of flies buzzed animal carcasses, corruption as dust contaminated conditions. Latent pessimism rules the lawless streets where there is only a question of who first and who assigns the last. Lloyd Ahern begins in faded yellow filters the harsh atmosphere of ominous scenarios. Ry Cooder accompanied with fierce musical banjo sounds. He is no Ennio Morricone, but proclaimed the undoubted border suggestive of the score, the question of what there is good in the air, which exploded soon, here in the shithole called Jericho.
Walter Hill's affinity for the grotesque Violence, as well as ear-piercing gun duels, rushing in where the bullets thundering past, according to the flesh or strike may not be missing, of course. It
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ostensibly his appeal, he outlined uncanny physical action of the old school that embodies the same time a kind of homage before the Spaghetti Western Hills, respectively, Sam Peckinpah, when the wounded are in slow motion in terms thrown wildly back. Regardless of the final, virtuoso composed hotel battle the sweeping action moments are nevertheless sowed rather rare. Most are minor intermezzo, the showdown is also relatively disappointing and from the three evil Ekelpakete killed by three gunshots to the the tenor of the film at all reasonable gently. This leaves the use of blue beans tend to be limited to trace the call of "Last Man Standing"
as trigger-time Action movies, if at all.
That Hill dry voice-overs to the best of noir-style narrative to install, is a surprisingly harmonious element, even if they work put on the often brutal. Presented as less harmonious on the other hand John Smith (Bruce Willis) real campaign against two warring gangs that he is playing off slightly exaggerated ultimately unable, because all Parties act stupid like never before. The script focuses on the one hand (attention, surprise!) Strongly gesticulating Italians, on the other hand, strong narcissistic Ireland (attention, surprise!) - No one can like Smith to pose a serious threat, so a Swallowed trick has to serve in order to get him into trouble. Bar any surprises, intellectuality of the model and sophisticated high voltage surprise of the plot in the quiet scenes in front of him digging in the dramaturgy of the genre and kit lacks its high speed. Promising additional plot threads are pulled down further than spun. runs as the carefully blazing love affair with the mysterious blonde (Alexandra Powers, a prostitute, maybe the Femme Fatale) after two or three lines of dialogue and an unintentionally comical sex scene (herrlich!) literally into the void. Also given away: Felina (Karina Lombard), the mistress of crime boss with two, three close-ups, which has left such an impression on Smith seems that paradoxically he must free at all costs from the Wüstenkaff. Ultimately, Hill and his Japanese team of authors also make any friends when they act in their convulsive effects of alcohol smuggling and the general prohibition era That implement them are made as superficially breakfast cruel, as if the mere mention of complexity enough.
reduces to the Bruce Willis-show "Last Man Standing"
already from the beginning again, only Bruce Willis poses? To suppose. The essence of his character, the faceless stranger, symbolized best the reloading of a 45ers. And the speculation of the viewer to the next corpse on the hit list. With the aid of the standard program of a macho Bruce Willis in harder roles - pithy sayings covered in blood, (sub) Shirts - the action hero's acting from the Nakatomi Plaza also its potential from. There are also solid unprincipled, lack of sense of justice, unless he can to protect women must evoke, laconic language, incessant fearlessness and talent, with few (flippant) syllables threat on the face of his arch-enemies. John Smith is just there, no past, no soul. Too bad that the script no details about him and that experience brings Willis been able to gain any other facet of his supposed Eastwood's homage to the decades as carved in stone.
In contrast, there is a point on the back gecastete Actor squad. Although Christopher Walken would also be in good hands in the lead role, he is enveloped in the few minutes that he has an aura of mystery, the man who circulated several of the legends, and he to all this a facial scar by ripping with in respect of which associations with the Joker evokes could be. Smith's ultimate adversary, the secret boss gangsters, the threads pulling spirit with a face somewhere between maltreated closet and squeezebox. Once again, Walker turns out to be a suitable man for the job of the ruthless anarchist villain Willis despite short screen time almost breaks the show out of the hands (and fired). The manageable, but nevertheless pointed banter of them are among the highlights of the movie soon. "I thought you were the best shot" -
"No, I'm just the best looking ..." moves between the clearly defined fronts in the known zone of gray also so many interesting supplementary nature. Be it the village sheriff or gangster or mafia bosses. While one of the weak corruption expires and is cooperating with scum (veritabel: Bruce Dern), the other succumbs to the frustrated cry (Over Acting par excellence: David Patrick Kelly, known from "Twin Peaks"
), tolerates no new in the last his clique (Sopranos star Michael Imperioli). Is useless: it passes a short time before these interesting but ultimately all the more visible exchange-starter bless the Term as part of their role as cannon fodder. After all, Ken Jenkins, the cameo was a refreshing indulgence. And he survived - for a change.
Conclusion
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5 / 10