So Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko enjoys cult status even two decades after Wall Street was released and Richard Gere's Robert Miller from this film totally flies under the radar of almost every critic I follow for four fucking years!
It’s
just wrong.
So…
So wrong.
And
I am quite sure that I would've been unlucky enough to have missed this myself
had I not happened to have a few people on my friends list who in turn happen
to have excellent taste in cinema.
Gere
brings so much charisma to his portrayal of Miller, a troubled hedge fund
magnate who has lied a few times too many to wriggle out of the combined repercussions
without scarring himself.
A
family that knows Robert too well to overlook signs that things are about to go
south for them, an affair that ends abruptly, the crime that it leads to, a
business transaction gone bad (and the crime that it leads to) and of course
the clever cop who is always one step behind the anti-hero (Tim Roth in great form. As to why and
how I have not seen more than a handful of films he's acted in, I've got no
clue. Shame!)
This
is a great plot and the taut script leaves little or no place for boring
detours viewers usually have to put up with in most non action-based thrillers.
Nicholas Jarecki directs with just
the right amount of gloss to give Gere
enough opportunities to shine as a devious human who has dug a hole too deep to
have any other solution but to keep digging.
In
all, while I may not go too far and proclaim this to be the best that there is,
I really liked this a lot.
An
easy three and a half out of five.
Certainly
worth a shot, especially for Gere
and the charming albeit wicked little 'I know too much to lose' smiles that he
sports at every twist and turn.
Catch
trailer here, but know that it is of crap quality. Makes the film look like an
average rated TV show.
I
guess you'll just have to take my word for it.
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