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| Value for Money | 8.5/10  |
|---|---|
| Overall rating | 9/10 |
Full review by
theshootist
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on 28th Feb 2008
User Rating : 10
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Good Points: Great actors, great roles, superb musical score, conflicted characters and brilliant screenplay.
Bad Points: nothing.
General comments: This is an instant classic. Tom Hanks is stunning in this movie about loyalty, betrayal and revenge.
Tom Hanks' character, Michael, plays a hitman for a local mob boss. The mob boss is played by Paul Newman. This man raised Michael from boyhood and ofter visits Michaels' family and children.
When the son of the mob boss kills Michaels family, except for his oldest son, Michael and his son are on the run for safer shores.
The mob boss becomes enraged at his own son for killing Michaels family-condemning him to a single course of action-finishing the job that his son began.
Michael and his son drive through the night to Chicago to meet with a man named Nitti, an uber powerful mob boss. Michael asks to work for him and tells him that he needs to murder the people that killed his family.
Nitti tells him to forget about this and to go back home.
At this point, Michael and his son decide to get even with the syndicate by robbing banks. But only stealing the money that is intended for the mob.
In the meantime, Jude Law, whose character is an evil, sadistic free-lance photographer/hitman is on their heels every step of the way.
The musical score for this movie is one of the best that I have every heard and really hits the audience hard.
This movie is perfect in every way, screenplay, casting, score and script.
The audience instantly recognizes with the plight of Michael and his son, but also with the dilemma that faces his step father(paul Newman) and local mob boss.
An EXCELLENT picture!
theshootist's review and ratings | 285 words
Review by
RobBuckland
on 15th May 2007
User Rating : 8
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From the opening scene you can tell this is a visually stunning film, indeed each scene could be a picture in an art gallery, with a soundtrack (by Thomas Newman) to match. Unsurprising if you've seen American Beauty, director Sam Mendes earlier film.
Tom Hanks is the main character, a mafia hitman in 1930s industrial American heartlands. This in its self is a bit of a problem at first, you kind of think 'Oh no, they've sent Tom Hanks after me, I'm so scared!' but as the film goes on it works b ...
RobBuckland's full review | 196 words
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