Monday, March 21, 2011
DOUBLE DEALING
Today's film was a NYTimes Critics Pick
I was really looking forward to this. Good twin, bad twin. Edward Norton, Susan Sarandon, Tim Blake Nelson. Pruitt Taylor Vince. I love 'em all. Richard Dreyfuss.Tim Blake Nelson directs.
The first half or three quarters is great. Then all hell breaks loose and what had been a gentle comedy about a brother who grows pot and a brother who is a philosophy prof goes all to hell in a series of violent turns which felt to me like a betrayal of the audience.
I hate when this happens. I don't mind seeing violence per se. It is when I am gulled into believing in the characters and they turn into something else entirely that I feel left behind and tromped on.
So I can't give this a high rating. I had to FF. That makes it a 1 out of Netflix5. Very disappointing. Which version of this film did the critic see?
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