Word: noir
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Sadly, however, these moments are fleeting and the bulk of the film is written in mind-bogglingly hackneyed clichés, starting with Duchovny’s entirely misplaced film noir-esque voice-over narration and extending all the way to the disastrous melodrama that leads him to become an American artist in Paris, quite possibly the biggest and most painful cliché of them...
Some movie genres will just not lie still under Lawrence Kasdan's knife. As screenwriter (Raiders of the Lost Ark) and writer-director (Body Heat), he has performed deft surgery on the Saturday-matinee serial and the film noir melodrama. But the western will not yield. Silverado sprays the buckshot of its four or five story lines across the screen with the abandon of a drunken galoot aiming at a barn door. Though the film interrupts its chases and shootouts to let some fine actors stare meaningfully or spit out a little sagebrush wisdom, it rarely allows them to build...
...they have left. A tightly shot, doggedly-faithful comic book film, Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez’s movie will disgust and bore as many viewers as it excites. It is, however, excellent on two levels: one of adolescent thrills and another of refreshing noir innovation...
...first of the three stories stars Bruce Willis as Hartigan, a detective forced into early retirement by a heart condition—which his slimy partner, played by Michael Madsen, calls a “bum ticker” in true noir-cheese style. Hartigan has given up his whole life to save a young girl (the adult version of whom is played stiffly by the beautiful Jessica Alba) from the serial-killing son of a powerful senator...
...first of the three stories stars Bruce Willis as Hartigan, a detective forced into early retirement by a heart condition—which his slimy partner, played by Michael Madsen, calls a “bum ticker” in true noir-cheese style. Hartigan has given up his whole life to save a young girl (the adult version of whom is played stiffly by the beautiful Jessica Alba) from the serial-killing son of a powerful senator...