Edmond
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Movie Reviews of Edmond
Movie Review: Dark. Twisted. Wonderful.
Summary: 5 Stars
Dark and twisted movie. On par with the "Fight Club". Dark phylosophy of life. Totally screwed up. Who controls your life... Scary ending. I loved every bit of it.Movie Review: a very dark movie that will leave you stunned
Summary: 5 Stars
edmond is a movie where something in the begining shows up frequently.very dark very adult movie that makes you think this could or has probably really happened.Movie Review: Must See for Mamet./Macy fans
Summary: 5 Stars
You never know where David Mamet will take you, but you can be sure that you will talk/think about that place long after the play/film is over.Movie Review: "You are not where you belong"
Summary: 4 Stars
Perhaps the real title of David Mamet's incendiary Edmond should perhaps be, careful what you wish for, or even don't vilify certain minority groups because your actions may come back to haunt you. This edgy and provocative film, featuring a truly spectacular performance by William H. Macy, features the cerebral Mamet at his dramatic best.
Here we have the angst-ridden, misogynistic, racist and homophobic male, so pent-up with hidden fury that he's becomes a walking nightmare. He's a bomb waiting to burst as all the years of "being on top" gradually deflate as he trolls through a nighttime labyrinth of crime-ridden streets, alleyways, and strip clubs in New York, just waiting to explode. (Interestingly the movie was actually filmed in Downtown Los Angeles).
Edmond Burke (Macy) is deeply frustrated with is life and work. Tired of being a white-collar robot, he abruptly tells his wife (Rebecca Pidgeon) that he is going to walk out on their marriage because she no longer interests him sexually or spiritually. He's just been to a tarot card reading and the results are not good - murder, blood, mayhem and prison dominate with the dumbfounded psychic telling him, "You are not where you belong."
In a local bar he meets a fellow white-collar worker (Joe Mantegna) directs Edmond to a gentleman's club where he convinces him that what he probably needs is some sex. And in this scene we get the first glimpse of a man who is living on the edge and is easily swayed.
He visits a strip club, a peep show and a massage parlor, where he visits a variety of gorgeous girls including Denise Richards and Mena Suvari, but he's too tight-fisted to part with any money and leaves in a huff or is physically ousted. Back on the street he's preyed on by African-Americans and then arms himself and lashes out, but violence brings him no peace.
He ends up at the apartment of a kindly waitress (Julia Stiles) where wielding a knife, he unleashes a rant, a foul-mouthed tirade against certain minority groups. She freaks out and he resorts to an action where the damage to his life is irreparably done. Edmond's final odyssey finally takes him from the city to a penitentiary where his prejudices come back to haunt him and where he is forced to face all that drove him into his crazy delusions.
Originally written for the stage in 1982, some of the issues may seem a bit dated by today's standards. The idea of pinstriped respectability meeting the - mostly black - urban nihilistic jungle might come across as a bit perfunctory, and even a bit clichéd. Still, the story with its incendiary language and its merciless portrait of a 47-year-old fractured man who embraces his own worst nightmares of racial and sexual suppression is still totally compelling.
Indeed Edmond is a must-see for fans of Bill Macy, who is truly a master at playing this walking time bomb in mild-mannered camouflage. With his ears sticking out from his washed out, blood drained face, he is indeed truly scary. Edmond might be depressing and provocative and even disgusting, but it's also gritty and honest and worth watching for experiencing one of America's best known serious playwrights working in all his unadulterated and uncensored grandeur. Mike Leonard October 06.
Movie Review: Another Great Non Horror Gordon Film
Summary: 4 Stars
I really enjoyed this movie. I can't believe a Stuart Gordon film somehow slipped under my radar! I had to hear about this film from my dad! How do you like them apples? Though I certainly wouldn't call this film artsy, it's one of those that you can take from it what you want, and different people seem to have different interpretations of it's meaning. When you see a guy on the street or in a subway ranting and raving and acting like a loon, you wonder who is that guy and what's his story? What happened to him to make him like this, etc? I tend to view this movie as a kind of backstory to one of these characters, but that's probably not the intent, nor what other people think of when they watch this. The film is a bit like After Hours in the sense that it deals with a guy who's pretty much lost in his own city over the course of one night while terrible things happen all around him. But, in this film, Macy seems to be the cause of all the misery as opposed to being on the receiving end. The film basically shows Macy, who's gone off the deep end from the start, gradually going more insane as the night progresses, resulting in some horrific stuff. Macy's an actor I've always liked, but never really payed too much attention to. He was just always kinda "there" for me, but in this movie he really gets your attention and comes off as a very convincing, sad and dangerous man on the edge. The film was originally performed as a stage play written by David Mamet, and it shows. The film does play out as though it were a play, which will turn some folks off, calling it "boring" or "pointless". Alot of reviewers here keep bringing up Mamet, Mamet, Mamet. Very few reviewers bring up the fact that Stuart Gordon directed this movie, and fewer still acknowledge his contribution. Sure, the screenplay and dialog is all Mamet without a doubt. This is indeed a Stuart Gordon movie though. His presence is just as evident as Mamet's. It may not be one of his horror films, but fans will be able to identify the style. He seems to be one of the few directors who can make films outside his usual genre and still maintain the same "feel"(King Of The Ants was another great example). Sure, it is a bit more cerebral than most of Gordon's previous work, but that's most likely the Mamet influence. Definitely worth a look for fans of Gordon, Mamet and William H Macy.