Newsgroup: it.arti.cinema
Titolo: Review: Breakdown (1997)

long time.
Una cosa un po' diversa da "un film indiscutibilmente mediocre", a quanto
pare.
---HA!
Guglielmo,
Italy.       
oh...@ares.omninet.it
"Discipline, 007... Discipline."
(Sean Connery, GF)

pare.
E bravo Gu'! Ci si sente piu' sicuri ad avere papino che ci difende,
eh?
Senti un po' cosa dice Stephen Hunter del "Washington Post": "(Kurt
Russell's) lack of energy afflicts the film as much as its director's
lack of ideas. [...] The movie's surrender to banality is all the more
dispiriting because it gets off to such a good start. Initially, it
seems spliced together from two chilling classics, George Sluizer's
"The Vanishing" (the original Belgian version from 1988, not the
idiotic American remake) and, years before, Steven Spielberg's
made-for-TV "Duel," about a psychopathic but entirely anonymous truck
set on erasing a mild-mannered traveling salesman. [...] 
But from that moment, the movie squanders the considerable
energy it has developed. The plot behind these manipulations proves
disappointingly thin -- that's all? you're thinking -- and soon enough
Jeff's various escapes and his solution to the enigma become the usual
movie chutes-and-ladders game. He does a lot of running around while
making desperate faces, but he never projects a sense of deep rage. He
never gets dangerous. Thus the movie is shorn of its one primitive
gratification: the image of the civilized man who finds the Peruvian
commando inside himself and lays waste to louts who have
underestimated him. The lighter-than-air Russell is bad enough; the
surprise in "Breakdown" is that even Walsh blurs to nothingness as the
movie progresses. He was more profoundly unsettling in four quiet
minutes at the beginning and end of "Sling Blade," where his unctuous
sexual sociopath shriveled your socks, than he is in an hour or so of
loud screen time here. Once he's reduced to routine action bad guy,
his peculiar nasty magic -- that seedy creepiness, that sense of calm
control, those placid, opaque eyes -- is what really vanishes from the
picture. To be fair, Mostow is able to provide a last few minutes of
rousing vehicle slapstick, as Russell ends up in a truck-on-truck
duel with the crazed big guy. This would work much better if
Russell's sudden expertise were some reflection of character
development. It just feels arbitrary as it is. Still, as spectacle,
the long chase sequence works, at least as a percussion solo
that accelerates your respiratory rate. Watching trucks play
musical chairs on an ever-narrowing mountain road is another
cheap melody of the movies, and "Breakdown" at least hums a
few bars.
Ciao
Nicola
[IT] "Sentite cosa dice uno che ha i titoli! Gugugugu'!"

[IT] "Sentite cosa dice uno che ha i titoli! Gugugugu'!"
I titoli non si guadagnano facilmente.
---E bravo Nicolino, ci hai provato, almeno...ora torna a giocare coi DVD,
ok?
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ok?
A settembre ti iscrivo all'asilo, Gu', non ti preoccupare, non rimani
a casa da solo.
Ciao
Nicola
[IT] In fondo fa tenerezza, e da quando ha la pistola giocattolo e'
cosi' felice...

cosi' felice...
Ciao , Nicola , grazie per aver postato la recensione del critico americano
pro-BW(in parte), nonostante tu non fossi d'accordo con lui :) Questo ti
garantisce la mia sconfinata, assoluta fedeltà politica per tutto il tempo
della legislatura e oltre. Volevo chiedere: esistono dei siti dove poter
andare a leggere le recensioni straniere ai film ? lo chiedo perché sono un
po' fuori mano per procurarmi il Washington Post :), e mi interessava sapere
subito cosa dicono su Codice Mercury, che mi è piaciuto.
Grazie
Ciao
Angelo

della legislatura e oltre. 
E il pompino, non glielo fai??
---Questo BW e' una sagoma!!!
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E il pompino, non glielo fai??
Aspetta, com'era?
"---Ma un minimo di buon gusto e stile????" [Guglielmo Pizzinelli
1998]
Ciao
Nicola

subito cosa dicono su Codice Mercury, che mi è piaciuto.
Se vai sull'IMDb trovi in genere il link alle varie recensioni
straniere!
Nell'improbabile caso non lo conoscessi:
http://us.imdb.com/
Ciao
Nicola
"La seguente affermazione e' vera:
l'affermazione precedente e' falsa."

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