Thursday, July 10, 2008
Film Can't wait not to see it
Posted by Pat Graham on Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 6:52 PM
Maybe the most frenetic action trailer to hit the multiplexes since ... well, Tears of the Sun, which of course was its own kind of classical Z-grade letdown, so expectations ought to be appropriately scaled back. But somewhere out there's a junior film editor who'd done his professional resumé proud. Just remind me to stay home, OK?
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Somewhere in cyberspace Paul Bartel's ghost is having a good laugh.
except bartel would've punched up the color--on the evidence, this stuff's almost monochrome, an intriguingly odd commercial choice ...
The weirdest thing about the trailer is that they appear to have taken the original movie at face value. Can you imagine? I'm sure they could have signed Stallone again!
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