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September 12, 2009
Caine Kills @ TIFF
It isn't the best made movie ever. It is often profoundly derivitive. But it is the first distributor-free mortal lock for a sale out of TIFF this year of which I am concious.
There are plenty of really good movies and there will be plenty of sales (don't ask how much... it's impolite), but Harry Brown aka Brown Harry aka The Movie Paul Schrader Should Have Made Years Ago is not quite as much overt fun as Get Off Of Clint's Lawn, but mate, it's Sir Michael Caine pushed over the edge and going all Oldman-sequence-in-True-Romance on some young ass. It ain't $100 million, but Screen Gems or Lionsgate should be able to push it out to at least the 30s domestically.
This first time director doesn't show a lot of first-timers disease. He likes movies and we now know what movies he likes. We get a good performance by Emily Mortimer, though an earnest one. And some of the twists could have been more twisted (see: Perrier's Bounty).
But the story here is the Caine Mulatiny. Women twisted their necks not to look, noises were made by the audience, and breath was held.
Posted by dpoland at September 12, 2009 05:19 PM
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"not quite as much overt fun as Get Off Of Clint's Lawn"
I thought you didn't like that one.
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at September 12, 2009 06:34 PM
Harry Brown was pleasing, and graphic. Exactly what its audience is looking for.
Bitch Slap, on the other hand, was a huge huge mess. I should've known by the title...but I didn't. Stupid me.
Posted by: eoguy at September 14, 2009 11:59 PM
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