| RATING: | 20% |
| FORMAT: | Cinema |
Honor Among Thieves
Tale of loyalty among thieves that shows the police working so closely with criminals – especially undercover – that the difference between the two is successfully blurred. Both feed off each other to maintain an essentially corrupt polity; the only integrity left to each is a trust that doesn’t and cannot exist in such a social setup.
No one’s hands are left unclean in this search for identity as cops pretend to be criminals and criminals inform for the cops. All are morally crippled by a culture that creates the crime it feeds upon in a universe made paranoid by its lack of real values
The characterization is weak, as are the performances. Jack NICHOLSON is little more than a self parody while Leonardo DiCAPRIO simply cannot act to save his life.
The plotting is overly and lazily coincidental and the themes undeveloped in an excellent example of where the critical reputation of a film director (or so-called auteur) is greater than the merits of their latest work. The film is so absurdly violent and over-the-top it could have been made by Monty Python’s Flying Circus. It fails to understand the difference between the merely dramatic (the killings) and drama (the relationships between the characters and themselves); all to emotionally-nullifying effect.
NICHOLSON hasn’t given a decent performance for years and is merely hamming-it-up for the cameras. And Leonardo DI CAPRIO is merely trying very hard to be taken seriously as an actor by doing an impersonation of Robert De Niro (from the period when Mr De Niro used to appear in films worth watching).
Truly terrible.
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