• A very strong opening frame from Villeneuve and DP Roger Deakins—gorgeous picture of the woods and then the Lord’s prayer from Hugh Jackman’s Keller Dover
A very strong opening frame from Villeneuve and DP “Roget Deakins—gorgeous picture of the woods and then the Lord’s prayer from Hugh Jackman’s Keller Dover
  • Jackson’s performance is big—showy- but appropriately so as the religious survivalist but family man under incredible circumstances
  • Gyllenhaal walks away with the film from a performance standpoint – and this is some feat with a cast that includes Terrence Howard, Viola Davis, the aforementioned Hugh Jackman, Paul Dano, Melissa Leo, and Maria Bello—- Gyllenhaal is making choices here and they all land—his Detective Loki is a superb realization. He’s squinty- blinky—has the freemason rings, the tattoos, the background with the 6 years in the Huntington school for boys—the buttoned up to the top button shirts
Gyllenhaal walks away with the film from a performance standpoint – and this is some feat with this cast
  • A moral tale on torture- not entirely different from 2012’s Zero Dark Thirty
Villeneuve and Deakins would team up again for 2017’s Blade Runner 2049
  • It also has a lot in common with Fincher’s Zodiac– it isn’t on that level but it’s dark (yes in mood, content and the actual lighting), a detective film with Gyllenhaal, the maze symbol/zodiac symbol- false leads
It also has a lot in common with Fincher’s Zodiac– it isn’t on that level but it’s dark (yes in mood, content and the actual lighting),
  • A dazzler of a shot in a Chinese restaurant- -gorgeous
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A dazzler of a shot in a Chinese restaurant- -gorgeous
  • Recommend but not in the top 10 of 2013