Better movie

Posted : 10 months, 1 week ago on 29 November 2007 10:17 (A review of Payback: Straight Up - The Director's Cut)

Movie works better with darker tone, but still retains the humour without seeming goofy. Only thing is at 86 minutes, the ending feels abrupt -- perhaps not quite as "70's" as the filmmakers hoped.


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All Ford bluster without the Ford poetry

Posted : 1 year, 4 months ago on 15 May 2007 03:19 (A review of Gideon of Scotland Yard)

The trouble with director John Ford's account of a typical day-in-the-life of a Scotland Yard detective is that it's non-stop blustery talk-talk-talk with none of the poetry of his other work. The wall-to-wall dialog in this movie is delivered as if they were afraid of leaving a silent moment, which is too bad since many of Ford's non-dialog moments in his other movies are filled with cinematic poetry. And then there are those fake backgrounds out the windows with the miniature double-decker buses all jiggling forward at the same speed. Very disappointing.

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