I was looking forward for this for quite some time(you can read it as: forever). A crime drama with Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini(plus Noomi Rapace)? Fack yeah! I watched it yesterday and I'm not disappointed. It's a great pic.
The movie starts with Bob Saginowski(Tom Hardy) monologue on the bar he works and how crime is involved with it. The shots are really riveting and dynamic and like the bar itself. Then we get to see that the bar is robbed, making the owners of the money confront Cousin Marv(James Gandolfini, rest in peace master)and Saginowski. And from this point on the plot makes the pace become really slow and dense, there's a lot of character development... and as well some unnecessary takes. The first act is really well developed, we get to see how well the actors are, making these characters really intense. The second act have us guessing and trying to find clichés on the plot... But the movie manages to escape crime movie's stupid paradigms. And the third act is really amazing, the catharsis is really well executed.
The soundtrack is interesting. Silence is a priority on the movie, but when the score hits... It's well done.
Cinematography is really unconventional as well... It gets to you with the gray and cold feel. The streets are so strangely aware of the indelicate sound of crime. It really adds substance to the tone of the movie.
The acting is something that bothered me... The mob characters had great impact on the plot, but they're acts are so black and white... You can tell too easily who they are, and there comes the influence of other pics of the genre to this one. Except for Marv and Bob and the detective... The other characters didn't convince me, I felt it lacked substance... Maybe a little bit of poetry to their composition. Depise this fact, Hardy is really subtle... Well constructed and driven, we can tell his character had a dark past, and that's what makes him so calm. Sometimes you think his inept to that world. And Gandolfini, such intense acting... That man had acting chops... I can't believe this is the last time we'll see new work from him, it's sad.
Great pic with a concrete storytelling... Interesting directorial work and amazing acting by the protagonists. I really wish it was more, there's was so much potential, there are moments that I felt it was too simplistic. One of the best pictures of the year and the plot dissolution is still in my head... Really awesome.
Completely worth watching.
The movie starts with Bob Saginowski(Tom Hardy) monologue on the bar he works and how crime is involved with it. The shots are really riveting and dynamic and like the bar itself. Then we get to see that the bar is robbed, making the owners of the money confront Cousin Marv(James Gandolfini, rest in peace master)and Saginowski. And from this point on the plot makes the pace become really slow and dense, there's a lot of character development... and as well some unnecessary takes. The first act is really well developed, we get to see how well the actors are, making these characters really intense. The second act have us guessing and trying to find clichés on the plot... But the movie manages to escape crime movie's stupid paradigms. And the third act is really amazing, the catharsis is really well executed.
The soundtrack is interesting. Silence is a priority on the movie, but when the score hits... It's well done.
Cinematography is really unconventional as well... It gets to you with the gray and cold feel. The streets are so strangely aware of the indelicate sound of crime. It really adds substance to the tone of the movie.
The acting is something that bothered me... The mob characters had great impact on the plot, but they're acts are so black and white... You can tell too easily who they are, and there comes the influence of other pics of the genre to this one. Except for Marv and Bob and the detective... The other characters didn't convince me, I felt it lacked substance... Maybe a little bit of poetry to their composition. Depise this fact, Hardy is really subtle... Well constructed and driven, we can tell his character had a dark past, and that's what makes him so calm. Sometimes you think his inept to that world. And Gandolfini, such intense acting... That man had acting chops... I can't believe this is the last time we'll see new work from him, it's sad.
Great pic with a concrete storytelling... Interesting directorial work and amazing acting by the protagonists. I really wish it was more, there's was so much potential, there are moments that I felt it was too simplistic. One of the best pictures of the year and the plot dissolution is still in my head... Really awesome.
Completely worth watching.
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