One, Two, Three
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Movie Reviews of One, Two, Three
Movie Review: In my Top Twenty forever!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a tornado wrapped in a movie and the tornado is Cagney. I've never seen such a perfectly paced manic performance, the script is hysterical, the directing flawless. I love the cast. Some of the lines are pure artistry.
Some comment that this is a movie that doesn't age well. That's ridiculous. This is a movie about the shallowness of most loyalties, especially ideological loyalties. Everybody in this Cold War comedy is either on the make or is about to have their idealism subverted or shown to be a sham. It's blatant example after example of the proud and idealistic holding their own until they're offered the right perk or payment. It's also typical and delightful Billy Wilder cynicism and it applies as well to 2005 as it did to 1962, maybe more so.
It's also a great example of sleight-of-hand. Cagney's character distracts a bit from the endless selling out and compromising. He actually keeps the movie from being too cynical because, curiously, his character is fairly honest and up front about his motivations.
It's also darned heart-warming. The slogan-spouting commie student falls in love with an arch example of the "enemy." The enemy--a spoiled rich Southern brat--is willing to give up all her capitalist comforts for love, or maybe just lust. Does it matter? Well. after a while it becomes obvious that love is the thing. I don't want to wreck the plot.
It's also very complex and rewards repeat viewings, probably why I love the film so much. It never gets tired.
Movie Review: Put Yer Pants on, Spartacus........
Summary: 5 Stars
I have always loved this movie for two reasons: James Cagney and James Cagney. A lesser-known Billy Wilder comedy gem, this film moves like greased lightning. An out and out farce, the modern audience may not appreciate some of the Cold War jokes, but the movie is still well-worth anyone's while to see Cagney's brilliant performance and the non-stop machine-gun delivery of one-liners and asides.The head of Coca Cola in Cold War divided Berlin (but before the Wall), is saddled with the twit daughter (she of the over-active hormones), of one of his Coke Atlanta Office superiors. She becomes involved with an East German communist bohemian/activist, the parents from Atlanta are on the way, and all the fun begins.
The jokes are rapid fire and non-stop. The cast impeccable. I can't imagine anyone other than Cagney doing his role (its that indelible). In its own way a daring little picture, the world was incredibly tense when this movie came out, much like it is today but for different reasons. Berlin was one of the world's "hot spots" and a face-off point with the Soviet Union and a possible spark for Armageddan. Wilder found humor in that tension and the laughs that resulted were relief at the discovery of the human comedy within the Cold War. He put a human face on the communists and found in their foibles the same age-old human weaknesses of greed & lust & envy. In other words, they were the same as us. That meant there was hope.
But the heck with that, its funny as hell. Take the ride.
Movie Review: That Rare, Rare Bird: A Genuine Farce
Summary: 5 Stars
After films like "Airplane" and "Naked Gun" and their various spinoffs, today's audience may think it knows what a farce is but in truth, it hasn't a clue. In fact, genuine farce is a rare thing and probably the toughest of comedy genres to pull off. Few directors nowadays have the guts to take one on because they know the odds are against them (Speilberg never attempted another after 1941 flopped.) Only a handful of titles qualify as the genuine item, among them: Bringing Up Baby, Asenic and Old Lace, His Girl Friday, and more recent examples like What's Up, Doc? and A Fish Called Wanda. One Two Three may be one of the purest representations of farce ever put on film. Try to imagine pure comic chaos operating to the ticking beat of a swiss watch and you begin to get an idea of what the film is like - and it's like no other. A spectacular melding of form and theme, the film's stylized hyper-kinetic precision is a sly satire of corporate culture and its vaunted dream of machine-like efficiency. The spirit, however, is pure anarchy. A truly amazing comedy which deserves to be rediscovered.Movie Review: Hilarious!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have seen this movie in bits and peices before, but after watching it a couple of times from start to finish; I was left with an inescapable conclusion: This move is hilarious! Billy Wilder is the master of comic farce. He always had a knack for taking the most preposterous stories and plots (i.e. "Some Like It Hot") and turning them into not only witty, intelligent films, but down right bust-a-gut funny! Even the supporting players like Arlene Francis, I found myself rolling over her performance. From the children to the office workers, there was hardly anyone it this film that did not tickle my funny bone. And of course, the incomprable James Caganey. I could listen to him all day over those Wilder/Diamond one-liners and lengthy monologues! I highly recommend it if you want to laugh for a good 90 minutes. Who could not laugh at those chase scenes through East-West Berlin? Thanks for making this available. As of now, you'd have to purchase the entire Billy Wilder collection (Not that there's anything wrong with that), but I already have a good amount of his films.Movie Review: Cagney as he was meant to be...
Summary: 5 Stars
Simply put this may be Cagney's truest and therefore best movie.As many fans know Cagney never really wanted to be an actor. for Cagney acting was an end to a means. In real life cagney was a fun loving jovial man not the "gangster" of his movie fame. This film allows us to see Cagney as Cagney... a serious...but funny man. As he was in real life he is in this film, quick witted, in command, and hilarious. the film is a constant barrage to the mind ( do to the genious of Billy Wilder ). As many Cagney fans know this was his 2nd. to last film and did not do anouther film for 20 years. Mid way through filming a scene that was a rapid fire monologue that took all day to shoot Cagey confided to Wilder that he new it was time to "hang it up". An exhausted Cagney was to have said that when it takes all day to shoot a scene the end is hear. to all that read this review if you want to laugh and be entertained by one of the greats this is the film.