Straight No-Frills Docu-Style Minimalism with On-Location Low-Key Realism of Time and Place.
Interiors as well as Exteriors are Cold and Realistic.
Steve McQueen is the Go-To Character and Budding Star of this Unfettered Inner-Look on the Planning and Execution of the Heist.
There are some Deep Displays of Interpersonal Relationships of Low-Lifes and College-Boy McQueen and His Ex-Girlfriend.
Heightened Violence is on Display in a Few Scenes, especially During the Robbery
That Drama is Surrounded by Mid-Level Gangsters Planning a Heist with Pseudo-Intellectual Hubris and Macho Posturing.
The Heist Itself is the High-Light and the Lead-In somewhat Interesting but Methodical and Melancholy to a Fault.
The First Two Acts Drag Occasionally but are done with a Pointed Procedure to Flesh-Out the Criminal Class and Their Short-Comings, especially at this Level.
Worth a Watch, the Feel of the Film is Different than Most in the Era, however Never Reaching the Electricity of the one to Beat...
Stanley Kubrick's "The Killing" (1956).
Interiors as well as Exteriors are Cold and Realistic.
Steve McQueen is the Go-To Character and Budding Star of this Unfettered Inner-Look on the Planning and Execution of the Heist.
There are some Deep Displays of Interpersonal Relationships of Low-Lifes and College-Boy McQueen and His Ex-Girlfriend.
Heightened Violence is on Display in a Few Scenes, especially During the Robbery
That Drama is Surrounded by Mid-Level Gangsters Planning a Heist with Pseudo-Intellectual Hubris and Macho Posturing.
The Heist Itself is the High-Light and the Lead-In somewhat Interesting but Methodical and Melancholy to a Fault.
The First Two Acts Drag Occasionally but are done with a Pointed Procedure to Flesh-Out the Criminal Class and Their Short-Comings, especially at this Level.
Worth a Watch, the Feel of the Film is Different than Most in the Era, however Never Reaching the Electricity of the one to Beat...
Stanley Kubrick's "The Killing" (1956).