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Date  Helpful Rating 0 out of 0 users found this helpful  Suicide KingsPosted: 10/19/2006A review of Suicide Kings by G_Weir Sometimes a person who is very good at what he does can make it look so easy that you might wonder why everyone isnt doing it. Then someone less gifted tries, and it becomes clear just how talented the original innovator really is.
This is the experience of watching Suicide Kings, director Peter OFallons 1997 stab at Pulp Fiction-style crime banter filmmaking. Rather than being an entertaining mix of tension, laughs and deep characterizations, Suicide Kings plays as a collection of Tarantino standards thrown together by an amateurish hand. Watching it, I was reminded of why most gangster kidnap thrillers dont include long sequences where a hitman talks about how hard it is to find good cowboy boots these days. Tarantino gracefully invented the hitman small-talk cliche in Pulp Fiction, but in Suicide Kings, even with Dennis Leary doing the talking, these inessential dialogues are boring, and worse, strike the viewer as unrealistic. Suicide Kings is filled with similar moments, where character we are not invested in wittily discuss things we dont care about.
The most redeeming feature in the film is Christopher Walken. Cast as a retired Mafioso who is kidnapped by a motley collection of college age would-be bad guys who are in way over their head, Walken effortlessly portrays the menace, candor and left-handed geniality the role requires. The overwritten, overacted twenty-something gang of kidnappers, by contrast, comes across as irritating mass of caricatures, and Its easy to imagine Walken treating his young castmates with the same mix of fatherly disdain that his master hood shows towards his captors. In the end, he is equally unable to prevent them from making lasting mistakes. Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful  suicide kingsPosted: 12/26/2002A review of Suicide Kings by honolulujake excellent Was this review helpful? Sign In 1-2 of 2 Per Page | ||
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