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...initial premise is clichéd but promising, and during the film??s early scenes, director James Mangold does a satisfying job of building genuine tension around the first few murders. Alongside each dead body, there lies one of the motel room keys, counting down from “10.” Primary suspects in the killings start dying, at which point the group learns that the motel was built on an ancient Native American burial ground. And when one of the characters runs off toward a row of eerie blue lights in the distance, he inexplicably...
Francis Ford Coppola, the film??s director, was almost fired several times by the producing studio, and ran into many other complications, partly because he was not quite sure at times what he wanted done. “There’s this kind of little boy in Francis,” Willis commented critically, adding with more sympathy that “they [the studio] kept trying to shoot Francis in both knee-caps...
...when he drowns off the Isle of Man. Nick, his partner, and Dan, his brother-in-law, immediately begin competing over the restaurant. Both are sidetracked by unexpected relationships: Nick with his first woman, and Dan with an inappropriately frisky female guest at Stuart’s funeral. The film??s structure is initially somewhat confusing-it revisits the funeral and other scenes three times from the perspectives of three different people. But once the story gets going, it’s surprisingly humorous and heartfelt. Lawless Heart screens...
It’s a long way to have come from the film??s humble beginnings...
Roger Ebert called it “extraordinarily accomplished and thought-provoking,” and defended the film??s representation of Asian-Americans when it came under fire at Sundance for portraying Asians in a less than wholly positive light...