Sunday 7 August 2016

Limey
(1999)

RATING:80%
TECHNICAL QUALITY:Cinema

Tell him I’m coming!

Clever revenge film that is about more than just revenge and, in a very real sense, not about revenge at all!

Terence STAMP is excellent, as are the all other relics from the 1960s featured here: Peter FONDA, Barry NEWMAN and Joe DALLESANDRO. STAMP manages to convey a likeable emptiness to his character of a hard man still sensitive to his young daughter's chiding him for his criminal ways. Additionally, the film is oddly-comical in both its treatment of violence and the culture clash between a cockney tough and LA villains.

The movie's style is strangely elliptical as it flits back and forth in time - with differing results each time. Yet, this strangeness works in favor of the theme of human memory not being entirely reliable - along with a certain propensity toward wishful thinking.

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