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Genres:
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Drama /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Stuart Gordon
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Actors:
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Aldis Hodge,
Wendy Thompson,
William H. Macy,
Frances Bay,
Rebecca Pidgeon,
Joe Mantegna,
Denise Richards,
Vincent Guastaferro,
Ling Bai,
Matt Landers,
Dulé Hill,
Russell Hornsby,
Debi Mazar,
Mena Suvari,
Jeffrey Combs
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Duration:
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79 min.
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Rating:
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(6.3/10)124.5
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Plot Summary:
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A fortune-tellers teasing rumination sends Edmond Burke (William H. Macy) lurching into Hip York Big apple's hellish underworld.
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Tags:
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Awful, The Worst Film Iv Rented From This Site
Dont be fooled by the cover - at no point does the film go black and white or Macey hold a gun or anything that might make it stylistic and slick....despite a decent cast (obviously Macey being the high point) this film suffers from an absolutly stagnent and disjointed, horrible script which leaves the acters with a hell of a lot to do.
the film comes off as boring, pretentious and pointless - it tries soooo hard to be quirkey that it actually takes away from the unique narrative structure and leaves you wondering just what is happening and for what reasons. Unfortunatly this feeling doesnt last long as they were the last feelings of interest i had towards the film before i subsided into complete indifference.
Watched it to the end to see if somthing would pull it all togethe...
Edmond
A disaffected businessman journeys into the underbelly of New York to confront his demons. William H Macy stars in this adaptation of David Mamet's play
No one plays a nebbish like William H Macy. From Fargo to Boogie Nights to Wild Hogs, if you want someone to be duped, cuckolded, emasculated or humiliated, Macy's your one-man bad luck charm. His baleful, wounded eyes, bleating delivery and narrow-shouldered physique evokes a lifetime of last places. A fine actor, he's also capable of much more, notably in his longtime collaboration with esteemed writer David Mamet. So if you need someone to play Mamet's own ultimate loser, for once, Macy surely comes in first.
His Edmond Burke is a seething cauldron of impotence a...
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