I'll seek out the script, for potential Mistie treatment. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: ravena...@yahoo.com Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:34:18 +0000 Subject: [scifinoir2] Milwaukee Film Festival - Modus Operandi Went to see "Modus Operandi" tonight on the second night of the inaugural Milwaukee Film Festival. The screening was held at the Oriental Theater, the last remaining local movie emporium. The cavernous theater has been converted into a duplex, but they have retained the ornate rococo charm of the main auditorium which is chocked full of "oriental" kitsch - including a trio of Buddhas, each in its own illuminated alcove, on either side of the theater and, oddly, several replicas of the mechanical woman from Fritz Lang's "Metropolis." "Modus Operandi" was sold as "Sexy women, CIA agents, spies, villains and femme fatales populate this blaxploitation-meets-arthouse story of revenge, which follows a retired C.I.A. agent determined to find his wife's murderer." Which is all true, but the whole enterprise is so ineptly and indulgently executed that it is truly painful to watch. The only thing worse than the writing,directing and editing (all by Frankie Latina, a jack of all trades and the master of none) is the acting. Watching "Modus Operandi" is like watching one of Andy Sedaris' randomly brutal bikini movies - without the former Playboy Playmates. Watching "Modus Operandi" is like watching one of Russ Meyer's aimlessly messy non-sequitor movies - without the bodacious ta-tas (you can forgive a lot with bodacious ta-tas - witness the whole Pam Grier oeuvre). In other words, "Modus Operandi" has nothing to recommend it. Not even the great Danny Trejo who is given precious little to do before ending the movie by taking out a bad guy with a corkscrew to the eye. By that time, I wanted to corkscrew my eyes out, too. ~(no)rave! _________________________________________________________________ Lauren found her dream laptop. Find the PC that’s right for you. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/choosepc/?ocid=ftp_val_wl_290
