Out to own today:
Racer and the Jailbird
 | “I promise you one thing. After this, I’m done,” Gigi (Matthias Schoenaerts) Great title, but what a mess! Part heist movie, part romance, part… illness melodrama. Huh?! I am all for subverting audience expectation, but the meshing of tones and genres should be seamless. A love story between a bank robber and a female race car driver had the makings of a doozy of a romantic action thriller. Instead, we get pacing problems, random plotting, and the one-last-job crime cliché. Please can that plot point be retired! Enough already. It signposts tragedy. The audience should never be ahead of the movie, unless it is about building tension through the viewer cycling through outcomes as they would in their everyday lives. (If a film can make the decision exciting as to which pesto sauce to buy, that would be a thriller for the ages.) [To read more, click here.] |
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