Product: The American Friend [VHS] (1977)
Rating: 4.0
Ex-patriot Dennis Hopper film?
This film is at a line between humor or drama.Some of the action and situations remind of films like "High Risk"in which the criminals are just bad at what they are doing.This film is really not Dennis Hopper's best acting,but the German acting of Bruno Ganz really makes up for that.The ending is a surprise, but may well be the best part of the film.There are subway rides to a death, and train rides to a killing,but the mob in this film is just comedy relief?The story is about an honest man trickedby bad people into doing what he doesn't really want to do.The film might well be an allegory on the Bush administration?