Written by Alejandro Riera
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11 August 2010
When Pat Benatar wrote "Love Is a Battlefield" so many years ago, I don’t think she had in mind any
mano a mano fights inspired by the Atari and Nintendo games of our youth nor much less the Playstation, Xboxes and Wii of the current generation. “Scott Pilgrim vs The World,” the big screen adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s six volume graphic novel, brings new meaning to that song and to her legendary "Hit Me With Your Best Shot."
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The trailers for “The American” portray it as a high-octane action movie a la Bourne trilogy. It is anything but. It is cold, detached, in love with long shots, tight close-ups and skewed framing. It favors a classic European style of filmmaking. It likes to take its own sweet time getting to point B from point A.
“Takers” aims high: it wants to be the urban answer to Michael Mann’s “Heat.” But whereas Mann’s 1985 heist thriller starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino was meticulous and obsessively detailed, “Takers” is a hyperactive, glossy, loud effort that undermines its noble intentions. It’s an impatient film, too eager to reach its final destination at the expense of character development and motivation.
