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There, in case you've missed it, is Mann's point. Throughout the movie, he has given us a vision of Los Angeles that goes beyond the usual sheen-and-scuzz contrasts it amuses most directors to observe. His L.A. is a void, a blankness, something like an empty movie screen--or an empty modern soul--waiting to be filled up with that most hypnotic of abstractions, violent action. This, he's saying, is what some of us are good at. And, all pieties aside, look how much we like...
...best armored-car robbery ever placed on film, Schickel notes Mann is seeking not only to revive the urban action picture but to make a subtler point about cinematic violence: "Throughout the movie, he gives us a vision of Los Angeles that goes beyond the usual sheen-and-scuzz contrasts it amuses most directors to observe. His L.A. is a void, a blankness, something like an empty movie screen, or an empty modern soul, waiting to be filled up with that most hypnotic of abstractions, violent action. This, he's saying, is what some of us are good...
...tangiest of the 46 recent movies shot in New Orleans (no, we won't name 'em). Most of the time, Gere and Basinger have their backs to the wall, and it does wonders for their posture if not quite for their performances. Krabbe, though, is a top macho scuzz ball, with his haunting face, menacing whisper and evil ponytail. This stoic, sulfuric Dutch actor helps prove that an O.C. movie, when it plays smartly by the rules, can be O.K. as well...
...where, tradition states, she is not supposed to go. Each dares to be a woman, even if it means not being thought a lady. But within these contours one can spot distinctive felicities and failures. Three of the films sink under the weight of earnestness (Marie), whimsy (Maxie) or scuzz quotient (Jagged Edge). In the others, two fine actresses can be seen at their resourceful best, fleshing out a character (Sweet Dreams) or camouflaging the void within it (Plenty...
...Foley (Eddie Murphy) has just been busted for disturbing the affluence of Beverly Hills; a few moments before, some bad guys had shattered decorum and a plate-glass window by heaving him through the latter. Now Axel, who hails from Detroit, where the fuzz's lot is mostly scuzz, looks wonderingly around. "This is the cleanest and nicest police car I've ever been in in my life," he murmurs. "This thing's nicer than my apartment." Very politely he requests the arresting officers to pull over if they just happen to spot any movie stars...