spectacular mise en scene

Rating: 1/10 (10 September 2005)

I really think Bruckheimer directed this movie....who else would have conceived such Wellesian use of deep focus,such a lean, tight, wet script that surprises at every turn, with a backstory of such monumental humanity and pathos? The cries for mercy in the barroom scene reminded me of the Odessa Steps sequence in Potemkin,especially as the innocent man was catapulted into the jukebox glass, thus symbolizing for all cinematic history the tides and fluxes of human history upon which we all ride helplessly, like that bull in Gilley's from another film, which cast all aside in its merciless sweep? A film to savour smackingly again and again.