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Release Date: 11 May, 2004 Retail Price: $14.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (7 total) |
Force of Evil Reviews
To be a classic is at times disappointing
A strange film if there is one. We know what is going to happen from the very start, maybe because it is a classic and it has been imitated so often. There is no suspense. The film concentrates on the feelings of the main characters when confronted with the various developments that they had not been able to foresee, though they are entirely responsible for them. The business is half crime, half business, since it is illegal business. But it is business all the same, even if it is gambling. There are some risks in this business, particularly the finks that manage the police into hassling you, the gangwar that can explode at any time when one biggy tries to bring another biggy down, and of course your family that can find itself in the pit, unprotected and endangered. Add a little bit of mishy-mashy sentimentalese schmaltz and you have it. There is no depth though in the film itself, not even any real question on the morality of this street gambling. It is just one vision of how violent society can be when dealing with money and that most of the time the people who are hassled and victimized, not to mention those who are the dead victims, are mostly the little ones because the big ones try to remain civilized and proper, though at times the order can be changed. Then one million dollars will not be won on that day but one quarter of a million is not bad at all, after all.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Paris Dauphine & University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne
WHAT THE ....????
I have no idea why this movie is so highly regarded.Perhaps it is politics since Polonsky was blacklisted as a communist.I found it very hard to understand and quite boring(Go ahead communist sympathizers and call me stupid or vote " not helpful" !).To begin with Marie Windsor does not play brother Leo's secretary.This role is played,dreadfully,by Beatrice Pearson.Marie Windsor,played the very small part of gangster Tucker's wife.It would seem to me that the two reviewers that seemed to love this film so much would know this if they had actually watched it.Second,this movie is about numbers banking,if you're not an accountant you may not understand what the heck is going on for the first half of the movie.Finally,for the second half when the law and the gangsters are squeezing Garfield's character,the wall st. lawyer,ruining his career and causing the death of his brother leo,it is still terribly hard to understand and not at all entertaining.I'm sure many will dismiss my review as coming from someone that just doesn't understand Polonsky's genius and that I must prefer Bruce Willis movies.But I challenge anyone that wants to click "not helpful " to actually try to watch this movie first.
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