"BULLET HEAD" (2017, Solet) had three powerful ingredients that could have made it a really good film. It had an A-list cast. It had an off-the-wall plot. It had something serious to say.
I don't like it when hardened criminals are portrayed as deep thinking sensitive men of honour because it's masturbatory nonsense.
But here the lead deep thinking sensitive hardened criminal is played unconvincingly by Brody. The wise old deep thinking sensitive criminal is sleep-walked through by a mumbling Malkovich. The young drugged up sensitive deep thinking hardened criminal is Culkin. The callous deep thinking hardened criminal (not so sensitive) is Banderas.
The dog out-performs the cast but is not in the film as much as I had hoped. Sometimes he is rendered with cheap and unconvincing CGI. This is a shame as it was for the dog that the film was famous.
What could have been a twenty minute short horror film is padded out with out of kilter flashbacks that add nothing to the story whatsoever and the ending, perhaps the final ten minutes, is abysmal. Filmmakers did not make this film.
I struggled to make it through this pastiche of pointless storytelling.
I don't like it when hardened criminals are portrayed as deep thinking sensitive men of honour because it's masturbatory nonsense.
But here the lead deep thinking sensitive hardened criminal is played unconvincingly by Brody. The wise old deep thinking sensitive criminal is sleep-walked through by a mumbling Malkovich. The young drugged up sensitive deep thinking hardened criminal is Culkin. The callous deep thinking hardened criminal (not so sensitive) is Banderas.
The dog out-performs the cast but is not in the film as much as I had hoped. Sometimes he is rendered with cheap and unconvincing CGI. This is a shame as it was for the dog that the film was famous.
What could have been a twenty minute short horror film is padded out with out of kilter flashbacks that add nothing to the story whatsoever and the ending, perhaps the final ten minutes, is abysmal. Filmmakers did not make this film.
I struggled to make it through this pastiche of pointless storytelling.