This was such a different kind of movie and such a different kind of film making that I'm tempted to call it original-not a word I throw around lightly. I've been complaining a lot about long runtimes for movies these days and at 2:39:00 this is one of the longest I've seen recently. It didn't feel long at all. It felt like a series the way they let things play out in so many scenes.
Almost from the beginning I noticed that this movie was pulling off a sort of magic act of showing the actors make their way through incredibly long sequences which thoroughly defined them in a way I've never seen in a movie. As I mentioned, TV series have the luxury to do this but when they try to duplicate this process in feature films it just seems bloated and long-winded. This was also bloated and long-winded, but only in parts.
The only character development that I thought was flawed was one of the robbers who is some sort of psycho, but that didn't take away from the overall story. It just seemed over-the-top and didn't make much sense.
The dialogue between the cops and the robbers was believable, exciting, entertaining, and original while being totally free of the clichés that derail most cop dramas.
Unnecessarily violent, over-the-top violent with bad guys who are cartoonishly bad. Why can't criminals just be criminals and not serial killers and monsters?
Almost from the beginning I noticed that this movie was pulling off a sort of magic act of showing the actors make their way through incredibly long sequences which thoroughly defined them in a way I've never seen in a movie. As I mentioned, TV series have the luxury to do this but when they try to duplicate this process in feature films it just seems bloated and long-winded. This was also bloated and long-winded, but only in parts.
The only character development that I thought was flawed was one of the robbers who is some sort of psycho, but that didn't take away from the overall story. It just seemed over-the-top and didn't make much sense.
The dialogue between the cops and the robbers was believable, exciting, entertaining, and original while being totally free of the clichés that derail most cop dramas.
Unnecessarily violent, over-the-top violent with bad guys who are cartoonishly bad. Why can't criminals just be criminals and not serial killers and monsters?