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Originally Posted by TheCunningStunt
Even if it does try and present it way in a cool way, for me it was just fun. It's a film that doesn't have a moral compass, farcical things happen, there's nothing do dissect there. There's nothing to it other than it being a love story intertwined with crime. There's no depth to it, it was just an enjoyable watch when I saw it. I've only seen it the once, maybe it might get worse with each watch.
But for me it was definitely good fun, and I don't really care what its intentions were.
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If there is no depth to it then why is it so intense in the Walken/Hooper face off? The scene was not played for fun at all. Cramming in so many 'cool' characters which it obviously intended makes a mockery of it's B movie intentions which of course it isn't. It was directed on a decent budget by one of the Scott brothers!
There are some good set pieces and lines of dialogue in the film but that's not enough. It's a B movie script given high gloss by Hollywood and fails to be neither.
I have seen it 4 times now to almost convince myself that my views are wrong but I still have the same opinion. Of course if you like it I am cool with that honestly but it's not a 'fun' movie at all for me. Maybe if it was a low budget movie without fanfare, I could have enjoyed it more.