The Stop Button
blogging by Andrew Wickliffe
Category: Directed by Andrew Niccol
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Gattaca is a science fiction triptych character study by way of film noir. And while the film’s a murder mystery, it only uses the film noir device—narration—for a non-mystery section of the film. The narration ends with the murder mystery, not coming back until the finale. It’s an absolutely fantastic structure from writer and director…
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Fairly terrible tale of arms dealer Nicolas Cage–set over twenty years–as he works with unreliable little brother Jared Leto, romances and marries Bridget Monyahan, and avoids hotshot Interpol agent Ethan Hawke. When the script’s not telling bad jokes, it’s just being bad; less a film than a collection of loosely related scenes connected with poorly…
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Outstanding sci-fi set in nearish future when eugenics is the norm. Uma Thurman and Jude Law are perfectly bred humans, Ethan Hawke’s a genetically inferior love child. Thanks to tragedy, Hawke’s able to pose as Law, but then his true (genetic) self becomes a murder suspect. Great direction, awesome production design (by Jan Roelfs) and…
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