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Posted: Sunday March 11th, 2007 13:16 |
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OK, had to catch this one yesterday since i have this obession with Film Noir. Gotta say the film was tiring as Steven Soderbergh goes all Casablanca (hope you've seen it) on us, with George Clooney as Humphrey Bogart, Cate Blanchett as Ingrid Bergman, and Thomas Newman as Max Steiner (thank heaven it's not David Holmes again).
The story is incoherent and dull, the performances are stiff, and the whole film is completely lacking in any sense of life. It’s just a pointless technical exercise for the director and, despite the attention he has paid to the aesthetics, the film doesn’t even look that good - the lighting is too harsh, the set-ups are too static, the music is too generic.
Soderberg wanted to pay tribute to the great Hollywood films of the 30’s and 40’s, but he seems to have lost sight of what made those films great in the first place. The Good German just crawls across the screen at a snail’s pace without ever doing one exciting or interesting thing, and the Casablanca -style ending is one of the most anticlimactic finales I’ve ever seen.
Clooney seems lost in the lead role and Maguire(the guy who acted as spiderman) is miscast. Blachett is a little better, but none of them really exist as any sort of character. Also, despite the director’s attempt to make a pure 1940’s film, he has found room for sex, violence and language which would have been outlawed at the time; so we get to see Maguire f**king Blanchett from behind and Clooney gets to say “f**k a duck�. I don’t think it was the Hayes Code which stopped 1940’s actors from saying “f**k a duck� though, I think it was the fact that it sounds bloody stupid.
Its not worth seeing and would advice you wait for it on DVD if not on Film 4
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