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Im 45 minutes in and BORED


Im looking for spoilers. I tried watching this but after the old guy in the apartment and his old friend and BORING SON, why do I care to finish this? I see these great reviews but I couldn't get into this "action" film.

Can anyone sell me why I should finish this?

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I found it a little boring up until JMV house party scene, maybe 30mins in, then it totally sucked me in, and I loved it.. If you don't find the mansion hit scene, or yacht hit scene thrilling, then you are dense.

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Brilliant movie old is gold

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Welcome to the 70s movies

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I know right? 55 minutes in, and this niggga still hasn't fixed one car maaaan!

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I agree. The OP totally has a point. This movie is boring and I blame Michael Winner. His rich-boy pretentiousness really sticks out in this one and he's trying to be too artsy-fartsy "look what a creative director I am" with all those ridiculous zoom-ins that are right out of episodic television establishing shots and the silly shots in a mirror and through a light bulb. Only Michael Winner can make Charles Bronson boring, and he managed it nicely in this. It has nothing to do with this being a "movie of the 70s" - just watch Mr. Majestyk or other 70s action like Dirty Harry - they aren't boring and there's plenty of character development in them.

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It's definitely more of a slowburn character study than an action flick, but that's why I liked it. I thought the relationship between the two men was fascinating and suspenseful, since the younger guy is such an ass and Bronson is clearly just looking for someone to have a connection with, making the trajectory of the plot more than a bit tragic-- and that ending was one for the ages.

As for it being "of its time"-- well, YEAH. Every movie is of its time, mirroring the sensibilities, both cultural and artistic, of its era. Movies from the 1970s tended to be more deliberately paced. Even Star Wars, considered fast-paced in its time, is "slow" by our smartphone-conditioned standards.

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Very nicely said. 👍

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