In terms of what you’d want to see at your local cinema, most of the movies coming in 2010 rank just below “dropping your Oscar Meyer hot Dog on the floor”.
Well, worry not faithful cineaste, for now we come to some slabs of celluloid you might actually want to see…and discover the law of diminishing returns is still very much in effect.
Wipe the popcorn from your beard and join us then, as we realise we’ve got piss-all to look forward to this summer, in part three of our amazingly awful 2010 movie round-up!!
It may be lazy criticism, but it’s impossible not to compare Tony Scott’s remake to the 1974 version and unfortunately it’s not a comparison that does this outing any favours. Back then,Walter Matthau and the gang were framed through some steady, drawn out shots with few stylistic additions by ‘King of Television’ Joseph Sargent and what emerged was a wonderfully taut character piece. It kept you riveted and even allowed you to forgive Robert Shaw his bizarre Dalek-voiced turn as head baddie. Here, however, Tony Scott leaps in with a full palette of directorial trickery, crash zooms, juddering edits. Whip-pans abound and it’s to the detriment of an already uneven script.
