Word: ripleyisms
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Rheault, C. A., Jr.; Rich, Stanley; Ripley, R. H., Jr.; Rose, G. N.; Rothman...
...last time the cinemas were lit by Tom Ripley’s icy heart was The Talented Mr. Ripley in 1999. Anthony Minghella’s adaptation featured a poor, young and awkward Matt Damon, Class of 1992, murdering his way into social respectability and Gwyneth Paltrow’s heart. By Ripley’s Game, based on the fourth of Patricia Highsmith’s five Tom Ripley novels, Ripley is safely ensconced in an Italian villa bordering a small village, with a doting wife and an impressive chef...
...Although Ripley is far removed from the petty criminality to which he once had to resort in order to build his fortune, it is not to last. Reeves (Sexy Beast’s Ray Winstone, gone all Ben Kingsley), an old partner from Ripley’s brief foray into art forgery, arrives one day, demanding Ripley’s help in murdering a competing Berlin mob boss...
Rather than sullying his new life by getting involved in such a base endeavor, Ripley gives Reeves the name of local British expat framer Jonathon Trevanny (MI:2’s Dougray Scott). Trevanny has recently committed the cardinal sin: At a cocktail party, he said that “the problem with Ripley is too much money and no taste,” within Ripley’s range of hearing. In return, Ripley decides to play a game. Can he kill two birds with one stone: take revenge against Trevanny and aid Reeves simultaneously by turning Jonathon?...
...Game ends watching Ripley watching his girlfriend’s musical performance, it feels strange. Cavini fell into the modern dilemma of pandering to those of us raised at the teat of safe conclusions: Ripley loses the game and we are left wondering why his brinksmanship did not carry...