The Hollywood News talking about the Jack Reacher film in production.
My excitement comes from seeing Christopher McQuarrie back behind the camera after 12 years. He’s perhaps most familiar for his screenplay work on THE USUAL SUSPECTS or VALKYRIE but his directorial debut THE WAY OF THE GUN was a violent-as-hell modern crime masterpiece starring Ryan Phillippe and Benicio Del Toro.
I agree as well. Underrated, undermarketed, underviewed.
shareUnderrated? Yes. Masterpiece? No. And Valkyrie was *beep*
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A picture with a smile - and perhaps, a tear.
It's a masterpiece film if there ever was one. I think about this movie often, and think about it every time I watch another Western or crime saga. I would go so far as to put "Way of the Gun" on a higher pedestal than even some seminal classic like "Heat." To me, it's just a damn great movie. I've shown it to people who disregarded it upon release, and they've all been proven wrong in their snap judgments.
In Southeast Asia we call this type of thing 'bad karma.'
I love/own this movie, but masterpiece is an overstatement. Certainly underviewed, but it isn't a "masterpiece".
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