Im about an hour in and I am wondering why I dont care about the characters or this movie. Maybe its because the characters arent developed. This film falls into the modern trap of forgoing character exposition and going straight to action. No reason to care about what happens to the characters is ever developed. Dorff and his Mother are annoying. I find myself wishing Michael Caine would kill them. Jack and Michael Caine are good but its a completely wasted effort.
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Whatever. I liked it.
"Well the good news is the whiskey works...." - Bill Murray in Lost in Translation
> Dorff and his Mother are annoying. I find myself wishing Michael Caine would >kill them
I had the same problem with the movie. The audience is supposed to sympathize with the stepson, when in fact he is nothing but a lazy, spoiled brat. Michael Caine's character (Victor Spansky) is very colorful, so you naturally sympathize with him rather than with his "victims."
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Caine plays a vile and dangerous thug. Your take is deranged. Also, the son doesn't want to be a corrupt wanna be. He wants to make an honest and unpretentious living.
To you this means lazy and to top it off, you identify with the darkest and most dangerous character.
I'm not sure you're really supposed to sympathize with anyone here. This is a throwback to film noir, where everyone's pretty much a villain. But Michael Caine is a much more entertaining villain than the others.
shareGood call except for the part about "going into action" as I must have missed that or else my definition of action is different. My main problem is that I went into the movie under the impression it was a suspense film, when in reality, I never experienced any sense of suspense. A matter of fact, much of the movie was more along the lines of a humorous black comedy kind of thing. Now it is possible that the label was created by the tv guide and they were wrong, but that is what it said and what I expected.
All in all, I too was hoping for none of them to make it out alive. I tend to still fall in line with the old plot of everyone getting what they deserve and there was not a good guy in the bunch in this movie. But most importantly, I wanted the movie to create something to get me on the edge of my seat. I just saw a commercial for ADT that built up more suspense. My wife and I laughed as we watched a made for tv movie called "Last Exit" the next night or whatever and it was more suspenseful.
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this movie should've focused on Jack Nicholson, who trying to make money by stealing the necklace kills his wife, (and maybe also his son, i mean in this imaginary version) ruins his entire life. something like that.
way too much screentime for the stepson, i'd say.
Stephen Dorff is an integral role of the movie. Without him how would the movie progress ?. I thought the plot was perfect.
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Why the Earth is triangle shaped
The pathetic rating of this excellent gem reminds me just why I loathe coming to this site.
This one slipped under the radar for some reason, despite the cast. Nicholson playing an out of his depth criminal?
Caine playing an oily bad guy to the hilt, enough to make you tremble when his true, nasty nature surfaces?
A radiant Lopez just after her "Selena" break-out performance?
Davis plays the vulnerable Mother role as only she could at this time.
And Dorff holds it all together as the "spoiled brat" who isn't as lazy as certain yahoos on this board have called him... don't know which twits rated this so poorly to drag it down to a mediocre "6"
And Dorff holds it all together as the "spoiled brat" who isn't as lazy as certain yahoos on this board have called him. He was pretty much left to his own devices after Dear Old Dad left Mom & Son in the lurch. He once loved his Dad, looked up to him. He resented what Dad had done, but now that he was back in his life was hoping for some kind of reconciliation. And what does he get? Knee-deep in a serious crime, and nearly murdered along w/ his Mother.
Very good. But brick not hit back!share
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Yes, this movie is garbage. Only worth watching for peak Lopez.
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