Anno | 2008 |
Genere | Drammatico |
Produzione | USA |
Durata | 98 minuti |
Regia di | Raul Sanchez Inglis |
Attori | Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Mykelti Williamson, Mark Boone Junior . |
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On first blush, "Vice" should have been titled "Not Another Cop Movie." All the predictable hallmarks are here: Cops and drug-dealing gang members spew F-bombs and N-bombs and kill one another gratuitously. They mutter corny insights like, "I'm close to the edge." Cornered, they turn on their own. It feels like you're playing "Grand Theft Auto."
But in walks Michael Madsen, he of "Reservoir Dogs" and "Kill Bill," as vice cop Max Walker, and suddenly the game has a soul worth saving. Max has the battered face of a drunken ex-linebacker, the hairline of Johnny Cash, the gravel voice of Nick Nolte and the morals of a stray animal. He tampers with evidence to hide a shooting during a drug bust gone bad, and soon his vice partners are being murdered in a fashion that suggests an inside job.
You've see this movie before, but you haven't seen it filtered through Madsen, whose rueful observations on life, muttered as cynical voice-overs (even the 23rd Psalm gets a nod), reveal the most irredeemable of men. Max has been drinking and whoring his way out of the department since his wife died. In Madsen's hands -- actually, in Madsen's face, which turns on a dime from placid to menacing -- Max cannot be ignored. He's in perpetual kill-or-be-killed mode. He doesn't make arrests; he just shoots.
Working with a dearth of original ideas, Vancouver-based writer-director Raul Sanchez Inglis saves Madsen's character study with a feeling of constant acceleration. (There are no speeches at gunpoint.) The hard-rock score, composed by onetime Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Cliff Martinez, and the cinematography of Andrzej Sekula ("Reservoir Dogs") underscore this riveting feel.
Da The Los Angeles Times, 9 maggio 2008
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Film a basso budget dove buoni attori sembrano avere disimparato a recitare e dove i cameraman sono colpiti da delirium tremens. Da evitare.
MAMMA MIA.. film noiosissimo, pause lunghissime e dialoghi insulsi! Meglio andare a fare una passeggiata sotto la pioggia che stare 1 ora e mezzo davanti allo schermo a guardare un simile film
On first blush, "Vice" should have been titled "Not Another Cop Movie." All the predictable hallmarks are here: Cops and drug-dealing gang members spew F-bombs and N-bombs and kill one another gratuitously. They mutter corny insights like, "I'm close to the edge." Cornered, they turn on their own. It feels like you're playing "Grand Theft Auto." But in walks Michael Madsen, he of "Reservoir Dogs" [...] Vai alla recensione »
Michael Madsen, best known as the sadistic Mr. Blonde in “Reservoir Dogs,” has appeared in his share of B movies, and “Vice” won’t catapult him to the A list. But the film, a muddled, disposable crime thriller, has modest merits. Mr. Madsen plays Max Walker, a cop in a tailspin since his wife died. He takes part in an undercover heroin deal that unravels, and later it is discovered that some of [...] Vai alla recensione »