Short Movie Review: The Good German
This is noir by the numbers, basically. The trailer is an absolute failure, attempting to promote this as a standard high-budget Hollywood drama/thriller when the style you’re really getting combines grainy film, old-fashioned wipes, and authentic-sounding, dramatic music with unpleasant sex scenes and more than a few F-bombs. As a take on film noir, I guess I kind of respond in the same way I received Tom Scioli’s work, which is basically a straight-up imitation of Jack Kirby: okay, so it’s clear what you’re doing, and you do a decent job of it, but are you really bringing anything new to the table? Maybe I’m just harboring some lingering resentment that the movie turned sweet-natured-looking Peter Parker (aka Tobey Maguire) into a complete jerkass. What is it about black and white movies that ruins the nice guys? I haven’t been that bummed since Sin City turned Frodo into a deranged ninja-cannibal.
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