> It's a caper story with lots of violence. It looks
to me as
> if the original Oceans 11 was functionally copied
from this
> one.
>
> A group of crooks plan to rob the big purse from a
serious
> race--as opposed to robbing a casino. Things go
right but
> the viewer knows they will go wrong--all they way
to
> something bizarre happening to the stolen
money.
>
> Not bad, but not great either.
>
> Other opinions, including comments on the
above?
In my opinion The Killing is a stone cold classic,
brilliantly structured entertainment with terrific acting
from veterans like Hayden and Elisha Cook, and newcomers like
the warped Timothy Carey. The Killing is to my mind almost
like the first neo-noir, instead of being a film noir.
Classic, either way. Paved the way for, among many others,
Reservoir Dogs which rips off much of Kubrick's superior
picture (I like Tarantino, mind you, though I doubt he'll
ever top Jackie Brown).
It also has the wonderful add-on of being based on a novel
(by Lionel White), and featuring a great crime fiction author
as a co-screenwriter
(Jim Thompson), a feat only trumped by Billy Wilder when he
had Raymond Chandler as a screewriter for James Cain's Double
Indemnity.
JT
JT Lindroos Senior Editor Point Blank Press
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