Ohjaus:
Michael RitchieKäsikirjoitus:
Robert DillonKuvaus:
Gene PolitoSävellys:
Lalo SchifrinNäyttelijät:
Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Angel Tompkins, Gregory Walcott, Sissy Spacek, Janit Baldwin, Les Lannom, Hugh Gillin, Howard Platt, Eddie Egan (lisää)Juonikuvaukset(1)
Marvin plays Nick, a Chicago mobster who is sent down to Kansas City in order to investigate the mysterious disappearance of one of his acquaintances. Once there, he meets "Mary Ann" (Hackman), a Kansas City mob boss who also operates a meat processing plant. Upon arriving in the city, Nick discovers the extent of Mary Ann's evil. Along the way he stumbles into a barn that is occupied with captured young women who have been drugged and stripped of their clothes. One of these girls is Poppy (Spacek), who wants desperately to aid in Mary Ann's tragic demise, freeing her tortured friends in the process. (jakelijan virallinen teksti)
(lisää)Arvostelut (1)
Once again, I have to fundamentally disagree with the majority, but this gangster film really didn't sit well with me. It could have been a decent movie, considering the theme of a clash between a rough gang in the countryside, full of energy, ambition, and ruthlessness, and a criminal group that has long lost its drive and lives off its past. But the creators turned it into a personal showdown between Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman, giving their characters a very unreliable dimension. It has been a long time since I felt such a significant mismatch between what I would do as a film character and what the characters were doing on screen. Several key scenes, which were supposed to naturally escalate tension, came across as unintentionally funny to me. Even where the mobster Devlin was supposed to evoke sympathy in the viewer with acts of humanity, it felt inappropriate to me. In the real world, his character, who exuded unjustified and incomprehensible confidence, would have been killed after just a few hours in Kansas. One star is for the cast. Alongside Marvin and Hackman, Sissy Spacek is worth mentioning, whom I know more as a mature character actress rather than a sensual femme fatale. Overall impression: 25%.
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