Nobel Son

Kidnapping, Suicide and Other Family Matters

At some point Randall Miller, who has directed one movie about ballroom dancing and another about the wine trade — apparently decided he wanted to become a tough guy, or at least flex his genre muscles. Thus “Nobel Son,” an aggressively noisy exercise in style over substance about nasty people doing nasty things to one another in (sigh) Southern California. Like many contemporary genre flicks, the new movie features a hyperactive visual style that owes its tricks and tics, smeared images and staccato cuts to art-house exploitation like “City of God” and latter-day Tony Scott, but without the commensurate technical finesse. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (3030 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 5 dicembre 2008