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Big City Blues
Two hit men, a call girl, and a gay couple become entangled in a web of violence. In the course of one night, they just narrowly miss each other.
Release : | 1997 |
Rating : | 3.3 |
Studio : | Laguna Entertainment, |
Crew : | Director of Photography, Costume Designer, |
Cast : | Burt Reynolds William Forsythe Giancarlo Esposito Arye Gross Georgina Cates |
Genre : | Adventure Action Comedy |
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Good story, Not enough for a whole film
Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Big City Blues was a failed experiment of a film that would later be repeated successfully in films like Boogie Nights and Crash. It's the story of five characters, two hit men, two drag queens and a prostitute who meet up in a deserted Miami mansion one fateful night.The drag queens Giancarlo Esposito and Arye Gross are the most interesting of the quintet. Especially Esposito who is in a journey of transitioning, but not quite sure if she wants to complete the change. The names in the cast are the hit men, Burt Reynolds and William Forsythe who do their best, but are defeated by a lousy script and poor direction. I can see Reynolds was cast here as he was in Boogie Nights, but in that film there was a cohesion as all the participants were involved in the pornography industry and were all interesting characters. Georgina Cates is the prostitute and she's along for the ride, also defeated by poor direction. Her character as a hooker who aspires for something more could have been a lot better.Crash is a film along the same lines and it was a Best Picture Oscar winner. Would this have turned out as well.
OK, well to start off with, ya the movie had a lot of problems.The lighting was almost embarrassing, the story was a little strange and somewhat hard to follow.However, I still liked it.To truly understand this movie, you have to have seen it a few times because every time you watch it you'll see something that you missed the last time. Once you understand everything that's going on, it's actually a very interesting movie. It's story is based around the fact that every decision you make will impact you in a huge way.Not to mention the great acting! Reynolds and Forsythe were fantastic in this film.To sum up. The acting was good, the story was charmingly creepy and damn funny.
This is a movie for anyone bored with mainstream, Hollywood fare. It is a well acted black comedy that follows three groups of people over one night. Burt Reynolds and William Forsythe are excellent in the principal roles, though good performances can be seen throughout the film. Overall, highly recommended.
When I saw the cast of an interesting sound of title I thought it's gonna worth, but the film got a one Big-Blues Problem ... a director. Usually when story is written and directed by one person, film is going to be good, but in this particular example, this law doesn't work. I mean this could be a good film, well but it wasn't ... Big City Blues got some funny scenes, good (as usually) acting by Giancarlo Esposito, and nothing more.