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One Vicious Movie

posted 8 years ago by telegonus (736)
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Johnny Cool is one tough, relentlessly vicious movie, and the cast,--most of them almost like guest stars--was top notch. The ending has haunted me ever since I first saw it.

Even the limitations of its leading players, Henry Silva and Elizabeth Montgomery, works somehow in favor of the film as a whole, as their performances succeeded in making their characters archetypes despite their shortcomings as actors.

Imagine this one on a double bill with Lady In A Cage. Yikes! Eeek! I wonder how this would go over with younger viewers today; Millennials, or whatever one chooses to call them, as in "WTF was going on in America circa 1963-64 that caused Hollywood to make these kinds of movies?".

[–] TinaKimo (888) 3 years ago

I was shocked at this movie! Sure he was a vicious killer, but he let a white woman destroy his life!!! Wow! Never trust a woman who throws herself on you!!! When he was ready to stop and go back to Sicily, the woman told him to, "Finish what you started!!" He listened to her. Then she sets him up at the end, to get killed.

[–] telegonus (736) 3 years ago

They would have killed Johnny Cool whether he played ball with the Mafiosi or not. That was their way. He had served his purpose; now his time was up. The poor pathetic character he got to know in in Vegas told him as much. He was the only one who told him the truth. There was no place for Johnny to run to. Johnny had some fun, killed a lot of people. He didn't know how to play the game. The ones that do retire to Palm Beach, bask in the sun, live to a ripe old age.

[–] TinaKimo (888) 3 years ago

I wish he didn't kill that guy, told him the cold hard truth!!! I understand what you are saying, but I still believe he would've found a way out.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

I went looking for this and it's oop, it looks like, but available on You Tube. I'm looking forward to giving it a watch. Low resolution, which is disappointing, but I'll take what i can get I guess.