m0rg16
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This feels like the epitome of what a Nolan-movie is. It's stylish, action-packed, inventive and epic. However the other side of that coin is that it's also drab, unengaging, contrived and too long for it's own best.
The film is built around one quite clever idea of time travel which is then used to throw our characters from one inventive action-scene to the next. A lot of the film is explained through dialogue - in fact almost all of the dialogue is just exposition - and functions as a way to set up the next action scene. Too bad that the film is also so confusing that the action scenes themselves have almost no tension to them whatsoever. It's never really clear why the bad guys are doing what they're doing - or why it's bad. Or who they are. Our protagonist is just fighting a gimmick (sometimes with a gimmick of his own).
Zero emotion, except for maybe thrills in some scenes. But even those are lacking toward the end, because there's really nothing to care about.
The film is built around one quite clever idea of time travel which is then used to throw our characters from one inventive action-scene to the next. A lot of the film is explained through dialogue - in fact almost all of the dialogue is just exposition - and functions as a way to set up the next action scene. Too bad that the film is also so confusing that the action scenes themselves have almost no tension to them whatsoever. It's never really clear why the bad guys are doing what they're doing - or why it's bad. Or who they are. Our protagonist is just fighting a gimmick (sometimes with a gimmick of his own).
Zero emotion, except for maybe thrills in some scenes. But even those are lacking toward the end, because there's really nothing to care about.
Quite possibly the best film of all time.
Franco Nero runs around a rain drenched Genua more or less aimlessly and beats people up who are either in his way, trying to get in his way, trying to warn him about people getting in his way or just out of his way.
Jess Franco directs a rather lacking giallo, or at least thriller. It's a whodunnit set in a large Mediteranean villa - a setting as gialloesque as they come.
An all spanish cast and a rather simple intrigue fail to deliver anything beyond pure mediocrity however. While the plot tries to deliver some suspense, it's just not that adept of a film to succeed. There's also no classic killing setpieces, which is something this subgenre lives and thrives on. There's no sleaze either.
Instead it's a fairly slow burning thriller where people just turn up dead. In the end we get a revelation. There's nothing more to it. The Dorado Bluray, which I watched, contains a written but dismissed alternate ending. Apparently it was supposed to feature a much darker ending and I have to say the film would have been better with it.
An all spanish cast and a rather simple intrigue fail to deliver anything beyond pure mediocrity however. While the plot tries to deliver some suspense, it's just not that adept of a film to succeed. There's also no classic killing setpieces, which is something this subgenre lives and thrives on. There's no sleaze either.
Instead it's a fairly slow burning thriller where people just turn up dead. In the end we get a revelation. There's nothing more to it. The Dorado Bluray, which I watched, contains a written but dismissed alternate ending. Apparently it was supposed to feature a much darker ending and I have to say the film would have been better with it.
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