Word: brest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Directed and Written by Martin Brest...
...separated by silences that would give Harold Pinter pause. One strong whiff of Going in Style, and the audience is transported directly to slumberland. For the next 90 minutes, there is little reason to stir. By telling the story of three elderly men who rob a bank, Director-Writer Brest (Hot Tomorrows) apparently meant to make a poignant statement about the loneliness and financial indignities that can grip old people. The subject is worthwhile, but Brest never comes close to giving it either tragic or comic life. Except for the funny holdup and a brief subsequent Vegas gambling spree, Going...
...Brest's dramatic style is all too literally geratic. His method of shifting mood from farce to pathos is to slow down the tempo of the soundtrack score. He telegraphs each plot point so far ahead that every event seems like a repetition: when Burns silently dreams up his robbery scheme, one can almost see a bulb turn on over his head. Many scenes are mercilessly padded with gratuitous reaction shots or pointless bits of local color; for this director, the shortest distance between two points is a figure eight...