- Chalice and the blade journey into the lost world movie#
- Chalice and the blade journey into the lost world full#
It runs out of steam but there’s a lot of energy in the first act. Through his criminal-clientele contacts, he figures he can get in on a lucrative Colombian drug deal there is a great scene in which he proposes marriage to his girlfriend Laura, played by Penélope Cruz Brad Pitt and Javier Bardem are in the mix. He plays a lawyer (addressed as “counselor” in the American style) who is tempted by the big score.
Michael Fassbender has accumulated a bit of form as a Scott leading man in the past couple of decades, and here he is in this hyperactive, flawed action thriller from screenwriter Cormac McCarthy. Photograph: Kerry Brown/20th Century Fox/Allstar 14. Scott certainly puts his pedal to the metal.Ĭameron Diaz and Penélope Cruz in The Counsellor (2013). It is a situation treated with full-on, non-stop deafening pyrotechnics: an almost meaningless blizzard of action. But the mission turns into a fiasco when one of the Black Hawk choppers goes down, and now the only real object for the Americans is to get all their guys out alive.
Chalice and the blade journey into the lost world movie#
Scott’s true-life war movie set in 90s Somalia set out to create a modern American Dunkirk myth: the US is pursuing its peacekeeping operation in Mogadishu and special forces attempt to kidnap a warlord terrorising the blameless civilian population. Lorraine Bracco, later to become a legend in Goodfellas and The Sopranos, is Berenger’s angry and heartbroken wife. Mimi Rogers plays a high-society beauty whose life is in danger because she has witnessed a murder, Tom Berenger (an underrated, plausible lead) is the working-class cop assigned to protect her, and of course they fall in love. This was the cheesy action-romance concept that was done more successfully five years later by Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston in Mick Jackson’s The Bodyguard – but Someone to Watch Over Me isn’t too bad. Lorraine Bracco in Someone to Watch Over Me (1987). It’s quite earnest and the sexual politics feel naive, but it has the authentic Scott virtues of forthright action and propulsive energy. But now the rules have changed and she can become a Seal if she survives the terrifying training course, presided over by the super-scary Viggo Mortensen – and she doesn’t want any special treatment.
Chalice and the blade journey into the lost world full#
GI Jane (1997)ĭemi Moore plays the wannabe Navy Seal in this serviceable and underrated movie: she is navy veteran Jordan O’Neil, who always resented not being eligible for full combat during the first Iraq war of 1991. The action sequences are a bit perfunctory. So Douglas has to journey into the dark infernal heart of Yakuza gangland to recapture his man. Douglas and his cop partner, played by Andy Garcia, capture a Yakuza gangster in New York, then come to Osaka and hand him over to people they believe to be police but are in fact Yakuza in disguise. Here is Michael Douglas in his action-lead heyday, playing a tough and ruthless cop adrift in Japan’s smoky, rainy, neon-lit Osaka – an urban locale that’s slightly reminiscent of Scott’s Blade Runner. Photograph: Paramount Pictures/Allstar 18.
Weirdly, Scott returned to the tricky issue of the Crusades in Robin Hood (see below).Īndy Garcia and Michael Douglas in Black Rain (1989). Orlando Bloom plays a young blacksmith – the illegitimate son of nobleman Liam Neeson – who joins the Crusades not to drive the Muslims out of the Holy Land, but to broker peace.
This is based on a novel by Peter “A Year in Provence” Mayle: incredibly, it is Russell Crowe playing the quirkily conceited yet adorable Brit who inherits a sumptuous house-plus-vineyard in the south of France, comes over intending to sell it, but instead falls in love with the place and all the picturesque Frenchness thereabouts, including Marion Cotillard.Ī director’s cut was later to redeem some of its reputation but basically this period action movie from war-torn 12th-century Europe still feels like a bombastic liberal fantasy. A film to prove that straight-up feelgood comedy is not Ridley Scott’s forte and casting his favourite leading man is no guarantee of success, either.
0 kommentar(er)
