Reviews I read said that the problem was McCarthy also wrote the script
and showed he is not a screenwriter.
On 01/30/2014 02:40 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
*/OK, let's start with the "dream crew." Written by Cormac McCarthy,
author of "No Country For Old Men" and "The Road." Directed by Ridley
Scott. The cast of actors he's directing include Michael Fassbender,
Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Bruno Ganz, Rosie Perez, Ruben Blades,
Natalie Dormer, Dean Norris, John Leguizamo, Javier Bardem, and Brad
Pitt. What can go wrong?
Well, a lot, actually. I came to this film having skimmed a
few...uh...less than positive reviews, but I like Ridley Scott
sometimes, so I thought I'd give it a shot. And it was an interesting
enough way to pass a couple of hours, but to be honest all the glitz
and fascination with the uber-rich lifestyle of drug dealers felt more
to me like a movie by Ridley's brother Tony (whose death during the
filming probably influenced things).
And there's the dialog, which possibly reads well on a page, but can
be more than a little stilted and unreal when spoken by actors, even
actors of this quality. And then it gets worse, and becomes so pompous
and so world-weary pseudo-philosophical that you think it *can't* get
any worse. And then it does.
It's one thing to make a film with a low budget and unknown actors and
have it fail horribly. It's quite another to do that with a "dream
crew" like this, and all of it seemingly to show off a new way of
killing people that hasn't been seen onscreen before, and to show
Cameron Diaz fucking a Ferrari. What a waste.
/*
