No pleasure in this movie.
The guy behind it, Andrzej Sekula, is the cinematographer who shot Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction for Tarantino. His directorial efforts are nothing to be sneered at either – my favorite of the bunch is American Psycho. Christian Bale’s performance is so amazing, it carries the movie.
This time he paired with first-time screenwriter, Adam Haynes, who takes the monumental task of weaving together three separate story lines. IMHO, first-time and weaving shouldn’t be in the same sentence and this movie confirms it.
It moves slowly and its sense of direction is questionable. I couldn’t feel sympathy (or empathy for that matter) for Lauren Holly or anyone else. I was surprised to see Jay (Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back) but it was only a cameo, so it became a disappointment.
The cinematography focuses too much on close-ups which feel wrong. If you examine the close-ups, you’ll notice two nasty shadows in the background. I find them distracting and I can see no reason why a few lights weren’t pointed at the background.
Author: logomito from Spain
Too bad I haven’t seen this movie earlier, I feel a bit like having missed something great before. The movie has everything I would expect from one of my favorite movies. An interesting story, craziness, action, surprises, good camera, convincing actors and finally music that fits to the story. There are lots of strange people involved into the story, all doing their part that the world of today appears egoistic, money orientated, brutal, sick and cruel. I like the camera work, there are plenty of nice pictures in the movie to internalize, and the melancholic synthesizer music fits perfectly the mood of the movie. I give this movie an excellent because for me it has something magical, something that causes me to see it over and over again.
He did not direct American Psycho. He was DOP, Mary Harron was the director.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144084/
And yes, it was a cracking flick