Task: Sentiment Analysis
Input (English): walken stars as a mobster who is kidnapped and held for ransom by four bratty rich kids .
it seems that a woman has also been kidnapped -- she is the sister of one of them
( e. t. 's henry thomas ) and the girlfriend of another ( flannery )
--and
the asking price is $ 2 million , which said snots are unable to cough up alone .
they even cut off walken 's finger to show they mean business , because they are desperate to save the woman 's life .
suicide kings is a terrible film .
walken aside
, there is n't a single appealing cast member .
o'fallon creates characters that are functional types without any resonance .
in an amusingly unironic scene , walken plays poker with the foursome and describes each of their personalities to a tee -- it 's as if he was reading the summary sheet for a casting director .
the plot is another issue entirely .
o'fallon is someone whom i 'm betting has seen reservoir dogs and the usual suspects too many times , for not only does his story veer off on bizarre tangents from whence they never return
( do we really need the scene where dennis leary beats up an abusive father with a toaster , which is entirely unrelated to both the story and leary 's character , or the numerous anecdotal sequences ? ) , but the central plot itself is a serpentine mess , filled with crosses and double crosses and triple crosses .
.. by the fourth big revelation / twist , i had completely tuned out , wondering what on earth attracted these actors to the material .
recently a peer , a fellow young filmmaker , informed me that he had an idea for a movie about four guys , the mob , and the fbi .
it occurred to me then what 's wrong with indies like suicide kings
: i suspect o'fallon has never met a mobster , is not a rich man , does n't deliver endless " clever " monologues to his friends about his favourite types of boots .
.. in short , these guys are just riffing on other movies , and in doing that , making the same film over and over and over again .
tarantino found his niche and now hundreds of genxers with movie cameras are trying to find tarantino 's niche instead of carving their own .
-reviewed at the toronto international film festival
Output (English): N