Desperate Men Do Destined Things

Rating: Null/10 (12 December 2011)

des·per·ate (des-per-it, -prit) adjective 1. reckless or dangerous because of despair or urgency: a desperate killer.
2. having an urgent need, desire, etc.: desperate for attention.
3.leaving little or no hope; very serious or dangerous: a desperate illness.
4. extremely bad; intolerable or shocking: extreme or excessive.
5. dog day afternoon.
Desperate men in an urgent city. A city that never sleeps. A city where two desperate men decided to launch an assault on heaven, and for two hours, you can hear their cry. Sonny and Sal have long been acquainted with the pantheon of violent and desperate men. They have come to know it's marble steps, and have seen for themselves the caution that creeps freely about the gallery of rogues. But Sonny and Sal are heroes. Stoic and true. They are operatic. Sonny builds warfare out of romance, and Sal constructs a rune out of gasps; those frail, sickly drops of doubt and mistaken destiny. It's easy for me to find poetry in this film, and honesty in all of its characters. Its easy because I know what it feels like to be desperate. To make a stand.. for what? You never really know, but you completely understand, it is justifiable, it holds up in a court of the Gods. And on one hot day in New York City, a robbery that should have taken ten minutes raged on all through the night, into you neighborhoods and local television news channels, you might have even stopped by to take a look for yourself. It is still possible to do something extraordinary. To look death in the eyes and say "We Got All Day"...