Honestly, i think the movie was too reliant of it. The whole movie was just "wait for the twist", it wasn't actually fun to begin with. In fact, most of the dialog was pretty boring, and only had some value in the end. Maybe i had that impression because i watched Casablanca in the same night, and this movie pales in comparison. Has anyone felt the same way about it?
shareI completely disagree with you. I think the characters, their interaction, the dialogue, the look and the story itself are great. Watching Casablanca in the same night would only make it look like a greater masterpiece to me, because that movie sucks so hard.
shareYeah, the ending was really good, but...Honestly, i think the movie was too reliant of it. The whole movie was just "wait for the twist", it wasn't actually fun to begin with. In fact, most of the dialog was pretty boring, and only had some value in the end.
I didn’t find it ‘boring’ but I will say that you’re thrown a lot of semi-complex procedural dialogue about a character you’ve never seen early on with all the cop-talk about Verbal’s lawyer, when I first saw it I was like ‘what, now?’ Keaton’s predicament also took some effort to understand before we even get a chance to care about the guy. No ‘save the cat’ here, no ‘show don’t tell’ so we can get a handle on this truck full of guns.
And yes, the characters are all ‘cool’ thugs, so while it’s quite amusing seeing them interact there is little in the way of emotional connection with them. I don’t really care who dies out of this bunch of selfish, ruthless assholes.
Once they meet their match with Kobayashi and they (and Edie) become vulnerable, and Fenster has been whacked, I’ve got a bit more sympathy with them, so when they start getting iced one by one at the end I’m like ‘Ah shit I liked that prick’.
As I’ve gotten older I’ve come to appreciate it more. It feels like those old Noires where the anti-hero is a cold, quippy bastard in a world of bigger bastards.