It's a hot Friday night, but I've got four very different pictures to review:
Criterion's The Honeymoon Killers is the class act today, a superior film about how true love falters under the pressure of serial murders. Shirley Stoler and Tony Lo Bianco are excellent in this fascinating story of two real criminals who preyed on defenseless widows and spinsters.
Image Entertainment's What's Up, Tiger Lily? is Woody Allen's giddily immature comedy redubbing of a Japanese spy film. Cool spy dudes talk with Brooklyn accents, and people are murdering each other to possess an egg salad recipie, 'so good, you could plotz.'
Paramount has two titles in the stack this week. John Milius' Flight of the Intruder could have been a winner, had it not been stuck with a cliché-ridden script that puts personal feelings above tactics, and has a sentimental guy foolish enough to talk about his family in a war movie. With Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe and Brad Johnson.
Roman Polanski's The Tenant is just about the only picture he's made that doesn't make it for Savant. The pieces are all there, but they keep adding up to a trite imitation of his earlier films.
Still no Billy Wilder pictures, so those might be off the review list this time around (well, not entirely). But there's no disc shortage & the reviews will keep coming .... Have a nice weekend, Glenn
Posted by DVD Savant at July 11, 2003 06:45 PM