Word: caper
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...right. It's the worst summer in movie history. Except for a few lonely lurkers in the art-house shadows, crying for your attention. And no, we do not mean Sexy Beast, a dull, predictable and unattractive caper film that is the inexplicable "quality" hit of the season. Our raves go instead to an internationally eclectic group that includes...
...Niro, 57, who signed on first for $15 million, admits to having "second thoughts" about the script from the very beginning. Although Danny Taylor--the first of several scribes to work on the film--had written it as a breezy caper, Oz assured De Niro that it would be rewritten as a more character-driven piece. Oz got the 77-year-old Brando on board, paying him about $3 million for three weeks of work, after a couple of meetings at the actor's home. And Norton, 31, says he joined the cast simply because "if someone called...
...latest FBI caper is a Keystone Kops fiasco. If the FBI were a business, those responsible would be fired on the spot." PAT OLIVER Boca Raton...
...Rodriguez established himself as a caffeine-saturated John Woo incarnate, filling the screen with delectable orgies of balletic gunplay and the inspired bedlam of guitar-case rocket launchers. Rodriguez's tongue-in-cheek, violence-as-cartoon mentality was pushed to an even higher level in the Tarantino-scripted vampire caper From Dusk Till Dawn, which, in its own eternally trashy way, transformed the manic carnage of B-grade horror bloodbaths into high art. Throw in the effects-laden thrills of the teen horror opus The Faculty, and Robert Rodriguez is undeniably Hollywood's resident rock 'n roll master of kinetic...
...doesn't appreciate the irony, but all this personal chaos neatly reflects his work. Before he met Madonna, Ritchie was the filmmaker who picked up London by the scruff of the neck with his wild-eyed debut, the brilliantly messy Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, a 1999 crime-caper comedy distinguished by rowdy camera work, shifting narrative and hysterical cartoon violence...