Wednesday, October 20, 2010
TWISTY
Today's Mamet film was the government conspiracy thriller
This is a George W. Bush era presidential thriller but in the Mamet style. Mamet style.
We are plunged into the action from the title frame. No credits. They are running. And they do not stop for the full 104 minutes. Well, there is stopping and some talking but not in the usual international thriller banalities.
Val Kilmer stars as a really special, special forces guy who gets shut out in the cold on a covert operation being run by...........well. That is the problem. Run by whom.
It is Kilmer's POV. We see what he sees and don't see what he does not. No cute asides here. You get what he gets when he gets it.
Double crosses, defections, con games. The usual Mamet machines that make the entire film fun at as many levels as you want to delve into it.
Kilmer is very good which is a plus as he is in every scene. William H. Macy and Ed Oneill (yes) are there for, well what are they there for?
You will have to see this to find out.
I will give it a 4 out of Netflix5. I never saw it before.
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