Redbelt

In a Chokehold, on the Mat and in Life

In “Redbelt,”David Mamet has taken a sturdy B-movie conceit — a good man versus the bad world, plus blood — tricked it out with his rhythms, his corrosive words and misanthropy, and come up with a satisfying, unexpectedly involving B-movie that owes as much to old Hollywood as to Greek tragedy. That may sound like a perilous combination, but the film’s visual moderation, contained scale and ambition keep it well tethered. It’s a fight film, purely if not simply, which of course also means it’s about the struggle to live. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (4536 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 2 maggio 2008