Wednesday, March 28, 2007
APPROACHING ZERO
Today's film in the Zero Mostel Fest was
wherein he plays a shyster lawyer whose son is part of a gem robbery team.
He manages to steal every scene and is the only player that keeps the film moving along.
It is a caper film and not all that good but it was good to see Mostel do his stuff.
The highlight is where he turns the tables on the boys twice. The first time is very exciting.
In the second, he slips them another one and carries on in high gloat.
The rest of the cast is OK. Robert Redford is Robert Redford. George Segal, also typecast, walks through his stuff.
Only Ron Liebman, as the driver, offers the equal energy of our Zero. The scene where they are together is something to see a few times.
The film gets 3 Zero gets 5.
This was the hardest work of all the Mostel films so far.
Labels: films, Zero Mostel
