Kevin
Spacey in a Bad Movie ? Surely not. I've seen Kevin Spacey
in quite a few Movies over the past few years and his taste
in picking just the right project is nearly faultless, take
Seven , American Beauty and The usual Suspects as 3 examples
of his quality control. The Movies he has made over the past
few years read like a list of my own personal favourite movies.
So
as you have probably guessed I was quite excited about this
Movie. But because this Movie is reviewed here in The Z Review
you can probably guess that its not all that good.
Its
based on a stage play originally performed in 1984. For a
stage play it had quite a famous cast that included William
Hurt and Harvey Keitel.
This
is the main problem with the Movie in that it has not converted
well to celluloid. It consists mainly of dialogue scenes between
the main characters. Now normally this isn't a bad thing .
Take Clerks and Pulp Fiction for instance, two fine examples
of dialogue heavy Movies that work well.
The
characters in this film are very self centred. Some of the
themes that run through the Movie are sex, violence, drugs,
hedonism, anxiety of life, paranoia, callousness.
You
would think with themes like that that this could be a very
powerful Movie. But ,as is getting to be a bit of the theme
with The Z Review, the director loses control and the Movie
tends to lurch from one theme to another and loses all sense
of coherence that it should have.
The
only reason I would recommend anyone to go and see this Movie
is to see Kevin Spacey's blond hairstyle. Its shocking.
Tall
Guy
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