Friday, August 30, 2013

FOUR FILMS - THE ICEMAN, THE SEASONING HOUSE, AMONG FRIENDS, MAGIC MAGIC



THE ICEMAN

Entertaining crime fluff albeit sanitized as the real-life Iceman was not a family man but someone who abused his wife and kids.  Still, this is a fun crime film with plenty of psycho swagger and a good performance by Michael Shannon.

  
THE SEASONING HOUSE

Can a movie be too genteel and exploitative at the same time about a subject as horrific as Bosnia?  A mixed bag – thrilling in places but ultimately questionable in morality and at the same time also too afraid to delve deeper into its dark subject.


AMONG FRIENDS

This felt more like rough cut or student film than completed product.  The look is right, the plot starts off well but the end result is an incomplete 80 minutes that didn’t even bother with an explanation or an ending.  I’d like to see it redone because there is potential there. 

  
MAGIC MAGIC

Didn’t get this film at all.  Is it totally improvised?  Kept waiting for something to happen when it dd, it didn’t lead anywhere or make sense.  Michael Cera is extremely annoying but maybe that’s the point.


 

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