Third Man meets Casablanca?
The script seems to have been written by a 20-year-old who'd just seen these two movies. Ok, and any Raymond Chandler adaption.
That was pretty dire ....
Ha ha ha, thread title made me laugh. Watched the film last night and I think this sums it up really. Too confused in what it wanted to be. Looks good though.
shareI disagree, if you look at the film for what it is, which is an homage to classic who dunnit films of the 40's it hits a homerun. It was entertaining, it looked like a film from that era, it had major MAJOR movie stars in them, it was a mystery...If the script was eh, its because many of the scripts from that period were sketchy. Look I love bogart, but he was not some amazing actor like Nicholson or Deniro or Brando....Let's just likea movie for what it is huh?
shareSo Cassablanca and the Third Man had sketchy scripts? I love film noir but i really don't understand that (but willing to be enlightened).
The thing is it wasn't just a homage becuase it was tryng to modernise the genre with more explicit violence, sex etc. whilst wanting the credibility of noir that b&w would give it.
Just a few thoughts...
It didn't look like a film from the era. It looked like a film shot in the 21st century that wanted to look like a film shot in that era. And the whole Casablanca shot at the end was a bit too much.
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