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Showing posts with label Carlo Rota. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carlo Rota. Show all posts

Monday, 3 September 2012

THE BOONDOCK SAINTS [1999]

Writer/director Troy Duffy channels his inner Tarantino in the cult classic action flick The Boondock Saints.  While the film may never give the viewer much to think about, rapidly fires flat dialogue at us or even solidify it's characters enough to care about them, the rest of it is pretty damned over-the-top fun, particularly Willem Dafoe's performance.  It attempts to convince us it has some sort of higher purpose but in the end it just seems like it's more interested in setting up some really cool execution scenes.  

3 obliterated cats out of 5

Friday, 7 October 2011

SAW V [2008]

I yawned. I scratched my butt. Got up a couple of times to get a cup of tea....and like the inevitably doomed victims in this film, I figured I got this far, may as well keep going till the end.
Nice to see Dexter/Buffy/Angel vet, Julie Benz show up as well as Canadain chef/actor Carlos Rota in a bit part.
These are Canadian movies at the root, so I suppose I shouldn't be so surprised to see so many Canadians show up in this shit.
The final trap and Poe inspired introduction scene had me cringing but that's about it.
Ho hum...let's keep moving.

2 Nail Bombs out of 5