Whiplash
Whiplash is a bold piece of work. It isn’t particularly original – 2006’s Four Minutes (Vier Minuten) told a similar story – but this is a true edge-of-your-seat experience.
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Whiplash is a bold piece of work. It isn’t particularly original – 2006’s Four Minutes (Vier Minuten) told a similar story – but this is a true edge-of-your-seat experience.
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Noirish thrillers such as these require detectives who are arseholes to everyone within the film, but engender the sympathies of the audience, and Kaas doesn’t quite succeed in this department.
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Hardy’s character is wonderfully flawed yet obsessed with doing what he thinks is the right thing. He’s a complex character but also difficult to truly like.
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Though there’s nothing remotely graphic on screen, the subject matter will make you squirm, and this is where the film truly excels.
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We feel for this man and the predicament he’s in, but we can’t shake the nagging suspicion that he’s lying to us.
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Sometimes a romance, other times a work of science fiction or even a kind of medical thriller, the film is content to be a patchwork.
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This is a slow burn thriller, but don’t be mistaken into thinking it’s too slow to maintain your attention.
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Jeremy Saulnier’s writing is pure perfection. I can’t remember the last time I saw a script this lean and efficient.
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The film will definitely find an audience, but the fact that the trailer woefully misrepresents the film – as happened with The Road too actually – is bound to leave some people angry.
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I thought perhaps we’d have a kind of Enemy Mine thing going on, where two former enemies learn to trust each other and become brothers. Instead, Canopy simply became a film featuring two people stumbling through the jungle, seemingly without purpose.
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