| Why, Oh Why? |
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| written by mason |
December 9, 2002 - 8:22 PM PST |
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10 out of 10 members found this review helpful
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It's quite a feat to take a story by William Gibson and a cast including Christopher Walken and Willem Dafoe, and produce a 93-minute film that feels about 80 minutes too long, but somehow Abel Ferrara pulled it off. As near as we could tell, Ferrara elected to film most of the movie without a script, content to let the actors make it up as they went along. Then apparently when it came time to edit, he realized that he didn't have enough material to make a feature-length film. No problem, let's spend the last 15 minutes replaying scenes from the beginning of the movie, throw in some different takes to be artsy about it, and hope nobody notices. The only parts of this at all worth watching are those in which everyone lets Walken go off into his trademark ranting, and as always he's a treat to watch. But plot, editing, pacing, storytelling? Forget it, try a different movie. What a waste.
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