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Movie Reviews of Burnt Money
Movie Review: Great performance
Summary: 5 Stars
Superb and fearless performance.Electrifying chemistry between them.rent it and buy it.Movie Review: 5 Stars and then some!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
A masterpiece of a movie. Emocional, compelling and spectacular.
A must buy...
Movie Review: The Delirious World of Angel, El Nene and El Cuervo
Summary: 4 Stars
"Burnt Money" (Plata Quemada) is a dizzy, surrealistic, hyper-realistic heist movie set in the Argentina and Uraguay of the 1960's and filled with period touches that may or may not correspond to the particular era it seeks to reproduce: the twist, 50's style American automobiles, Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Susie Q," Question Mark and the Mysterian's "Land of a 1000 dances" ("I said a Nah nah nah na na..do you know how to pony?..like boney...maroni") and Billie Holiday's "Lady in Satin" to name just a few. Angel (Eduardo Noriega), El Nene (Leonardo Sbaraglia) and El Cuervo (Pablo Echarri) are the youngest and most attractive members of a gang who rob a government agency of 7 million dollars. And as with most heist films this is only the beginning of the gang's problems: where to hide, where to stash the money, what to do about the voices that Angel hears calling him to save his seed for a higher cause and what to do with Nene's unrequited need for Angel. Nene and Angel are erstwhile lovers who met in a public restroom and, because they are never apart and only work together, are known as the "twins."By itself, the Twins' relationship is as stormy, weird and sexually explicit as most couples' but in the bigger context, as part of a team of hetero men, professional white collar thieves, it is unusual. And this is one of the things that makes this film reverberate and hold your interest as most of the other members of the team put up with Angel and Nene because they are good at what they do, i.e. they're ruthless, fearless killers and expert burglars . Cuervo is the comic of the bunch and spends a lot of his time joshing with Angel and Nene and trying to score with girls. One scene has him twisting on the beach with bikini clad girls a la "Beach Blanket Bingo." Hilarious.
Marcelo Pineyro brews up this cauldorn of disparate characters into a bloody and guts-filled stew of double crossing, shoot outs with the police and ultimately an almost saint-like immolation ending. Pineyro has obviously been watching a lot of 50's and 60's American melodramas like "Point Blank," "Written on the Wind," and "Magniificent Obsession." But unlike those films, "Burnt Money" is a sweaty, in-your-face, violence filled car chase of a movie. More "Bonnie and Clyde" than "Chinatown." "Burnt Money" runs on too long for it's own good but this is a minor quibble about a first-rate film. See it to believe it.
Movie Review: Wild film: A gay themed Resevoir Dogs!
Summary: 4 Stars
I caught this film on the Sundance Channel. I didn't know what the heck I was watching at first. Burnt Money is the story of two men - lovers - who are robbers for hire. They are part of a team of robbers. The team robs a bank and in the process kill a policeman. Their identies are known and they must leave the country to get to safety.Told from the perspective of the robbers, this movie is no more gay than Resevoir Dogs was straight. The sexuality of the robbers is merely a character aspect of the men. So to delve more deeply into their gayness would be insulting and trivialize this film. The filmmakers do not treat their homosexuality with more importance in this film than other filmmakers do lead character's heterosexuality.
We know from the beginning that this film can only have one outcome - and that is a tragic one. These are not nice people as a whole. Certainly, they have wonderful traits, but so do the most evil of men. It is to the filmmaker's credit that the many levels of these characters are brought out rather than making them two dimensional cut outs of a predictable nature. Regardless of their horrible deeds, we are tied emotionally to these men - these robbers. We root for them and hope (we know in vain) that they will succeed.
Set In Buenos Aires in 1965, this movie is based on true events that happened at that time. If half of what is portrayed is realisitically portrayed, then the source material was a film begging to be made. Tragic and emotional, Burnt Money gives us a very exciting and engaging cops and robbers story told with thrilling scenes and touching emotional performances. Believable and believably portrayed.
It is in Spanish with English subtitles. I highly recommend this film.
Movie Review: Mesmerising in its brutal honesty
Summary: 4 Stars
When one leaves a theater or finishes a movie, and is left either speechless or numb from the impact of such, then one has had an experience deserving of a review. This is one such movie, which has at its heart the exploration of a relationship devoid of logic and reason, and yet one which imbues love and determination. One partner clearly suffering a psychosis due to his own mental illness causes his lover to enter a world of self-sacrifice, self destruction and the ultimate realisation of truth. love has no understanding in such circumstances, and would seem to a perverse irony within itself.
The script is brutal as is the vision of the director. The acting is brilliant, as each character delves into their very beings to portray a crude, brutal honesty, which comes from life experience. At times one forgets that these are actors portraying a story, and your experience is of each minute is crisp, succinct and breath taking. The fact that the movie is based on fact, makes the impact even more surreal.