Has this been discussed yet?
Saw it tonight and loved it. A deliberately basic, one-dimensional plot that is only a stepping off point for a fantastic, breathtaking and hilarious movie.
It has an excellent script, cast & perfomances, music, sound & editing, lighting and direction (of what is basically almost all one long scene).
The choreography and plotting of the shootout is hugely impressive but not in the smooth, balletic way of 'heroic bloodshed' movies - it's clumsy, dirty, dusty and, at times, slapstick.
It stretches the basic idea as taut as it could possibly go and checks out in ninety minutes without risking overrunning.
I really want to try and see it again on cinematic release. Somehow, it's the first Ben Wheatley/Amy Jump movie I've seen so it gives me a good excuse to finally get round to the rest of their work.
Saw it tonight and loved it. A deliberately basic, one-dimensional plot that is only a stepping off point for a fantastic, breathtaking and hilarious movie.
It has an excellent script, cast & perfomances, music, sound & editing, lighting and direction (of what is basically almost all one long scene).
The choreography and plotting of the shootout is hugely impressive but not in the smooth, balletic way of 'heroic bloodshed' movies - it's clumsy, dirty, dusty and, at times, slapstick.
It stretches the basic idea as taut as it could possibly go and checks out in ninety minutes without risking overrunning.
I really want to try and see it again on cinematic release. Somehow, it's the first Ben Wheatley/Amy Jump movie I've seen so it gives me a good excuse to finally get round to the rest of their work.
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