Some very excellent acting and actor chemistry here.
The story, the editing, the slo-mo, directing- not so much.
Occasionally silly- they dump a load of cinder blocks from a building onto a car. It's hard to believe anybody survived that, and yet the car driver isn't all that upset. Of course, this triggers later things like Dorff getting punched and eventual gang warfare. Uh... that was attempted murder. I think the warfare would have started immediately.
This may be the first movie I've considered pretentious. There's so many artistic decisions involved which are extremely subjective and so the term isn't terribly meaningful. With the slo-mo and such, it really seems to consider itself Extremely Significant, while in reality, it's FX and style slathered on material so well trodden, it was all cliched 20 years earlier. Other than the newer production values, this slice of life in Brooklyn offers little that wasn't more thoroughly and deftly covered in The Outsiders.
The story, the editing, the slo-mo, directing- not so much.
Occasionally silly- they dump a load of cinder blocks from a building onto a car. It's hard to believe anybody survived that, and yet the car driver isn't all that upset. Of course, this triggers later things like Dorff getting punched and eventual gang warfare. Uh... that was attempted murder. I think the warfare would have started immediately.
This may be the first movie I've considered pretentious. There's so many artistic decisions involved which are extremely subjective and so the term isn't terribly meaningful. With the slo-mo and such, it really seems to consider itself Extremely Significant, while in reality, it's FX and style slathered on material so well trodden, it was all cliched 20 years earlier. Other than the newer production values, this slice of life in Brooklyn offers little that wasn't more thoroughly and deftly covered in The Outsiders.