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Written by James M. Tate / 2/04/2016 / No comments / 2016 , cable , colin farrell , neo noir , vince vaughn

GLIMPSE INTO TRUE DETECTIVE SEASON TWO

2016, cable, colin farrell, neo noir, vince vaughn

GLIMPSE INTO TRUE DETECTIVE SEASON TWO

Colin Farrell in a "majestyk" shot in the maligned but powerful and underrated TRUE DETECTIVE SEASON 2 We won't go into fu...

SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 2012 cast: Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken rating: ***1/2</td></tr>
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Towards the anticipated finale, which could result in a climactic shootout, Christopher Walken’s Hans, an old con-man who steals pets and returns them for money, turns to boozing screenwriter Marty, played by a subdued Colin Farrell, that psychopaths, real psychopaths not fictional ones, can be more tiresome than interesting. That isn’t to say Sam Rockwell’s scene-stealing Billy doesn’t try his best to be normal – although he’s the kind of person you shouldn't associate with: unless you need genuinely bizarre, and seemingly useless, inspiration for your screenplay. Marty’s been struggling to get something on paper, and his next project titled SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS seems to be writing itself.<br />
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This crime/comedy, channeling Quentin Tarantino, Elmore Leonard and The Coen Brothers at every turn, deals with only a few crazy people and the rest are in Marty's imagination. Scenes involving bogus situations are never distracting from the basic plot: a really bad dude (Woody Harrelson) wants his dog back, which had been kidnapped by Billy without Han’s knowledge. Much of the film takes place in Los Angeles as the characters weave in an out of violent (some humorous, some not) situations – leading to a mellow stretch in the Joshua Tree desert where the three leads get unpretentiously philosophical.<br />
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Farrell does a decent job in a thankless role as the main protagonist; Christopher Walken is sympathetic and, during moments of high tension, mesmerizing with his usual halting tone; while all the tasty dialog belongs to Sam Rockwell, who at times is too good a thing. But that’s the underlying theme here – real loonies are a lot easier to take on paper. And while this motion picture doesn’t quite know where or how to end, it feels like reading a book you can't put down.

2012, christopher walken, colin farrell, crime, genre tarantino, sam rockwell, tom waits

SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS

year: 2012 cast: Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken rating: ***1/2 Towards the anticipated finale, which could result in a ...

Written by James M. Tate / 8/12/2012 / No comments / 2012 , colin farrell , jessica biel , kate beckinsale , remake , science-fiction

TOTAL RECALL (2012)

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>year: </b>2012 <b>cast: </b>Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel <b>rating:</b> **</td></tr>
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A twenty-year-old movie being remade would seem a lot stranger but, a month earlier, a ten-year-old flick got the same treatment. Like the SPIDERMAN reboot, the main character of TOTAL RECALL is a lot more serious and brooding.<br />
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Colin Farrell is Douglas Quaid in a future resembling BLADE RUNNER with a stronger work ethic. He and his buddy build police robots but Quaid is not content. Haunted by violent dreams of a mysterious woman, he’s wondering if there’s something better than his dreary existence. Heck, even his gorgeous wife is concerned.<br />
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Unlike Sharon Stone’s sexy and lethal Lori Quaid of the original, Kate Beckinsale is more like Tommy Lee Jones in THE FUGITIVE. But that’s once Quaid… after using Total Recall in which, as your head's strapped to electrodes, implanted memories seem more than real… is on the run: he’s actually a spy that can free an underground Resistance from an oppressive dictator bent on… some sort of mass attack.<br />
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The problem is there’s more action than storyline – but that doesn’t stop each character from spouting loads of boring exposition between each bombastic chase.<br />
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Sure, it all looks cool, but the villains and the good guys seem too much alike to mean anything to the viewer.<br />
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So while Arnold Schwarzenegger eventually had something to fight for on the planet Mars, Colin Farrell, stuck on Earth, is merely surviving. And since he was never totally strapped into that titular memory machine in the first place, his recall means very little this time around.

2012, colin farrell, jessica biel, kate beckinsale, remake, science-fiction

TOTAL RECALL (2012)

year: 2012 cast: Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel rating: ** A twenty-year-old movie being remade would seem a lot stranger...

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