Wednesday, March 27, 2013
HEAD OVER HEEL
Today's movie was
with Richard Gere as a "too rich to fail" financial guy who is caught on two sides. One with his money stuck in Russia just when he needs to sell his own company, frozen assets, indeed. The other when he crashes his car with his very expensive bimbette along with him. She dies. He tries to walk.
A convoluted plot which somehow resists getting bogged down in the necessary trivia of finance and getting an arrest for manslaughter.
Tim Roth is the cop and an excellent cast fill out what is surprisingly an edge of the seat story. The "hero" is, after all, a shit. Not even a bit of one. A complete one. I think it is very difficult to carry off but they did. A sympathetic bastard.
Bit Gere has a long career of this kind of thing.
Susan Sarandon is the wronged wife. She spends almost the whole movie in a low profile but when she blows, there are fireworks.
I liked it. A good solid Hollywood product. All gloss, of course, but some substance and, indeed, a look into the moneyed life.I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.
Labels: films
