10/10
A fantastic exercise in style excess
1 October 2018
Warning: Spoilers
I loved this movie, though I should mention that is purely personal preference. As others have said the movie is highly stylized without much explanation given to the plot or characters. The lighting and cinematography are like nothing else I've ever seen: mixing quick cuts, extreme closeups, hyper-realized sounds, stylized color choices, and the occasional dream to connect scenes. The basic premise is that a group of thieves steal some gold and then hold up in an old fort in an extended standoff. Soon enough they start turning on each other and many sides start to form. It never seemed difficult to follow who was with who though. The last third does get a bit more surreal and dreamlike sequences are intermixed with the rest of the action. I won't spoil too much but again it was easy to follow the basic jist of everything. It's definitely worth checking out though, if only to just see a wild oddball of a film.
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