The problem is not that the director is working
05.03.08 - 06:13am
The problem is not that the director is working but that his latest film is working too hard. Way too hard this thing is melodrama running a marathon. Lumets movie is about people rather than jewels or guns. And, at 83, he knows a thing or two about people. Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead blu-ray Its powerfully crafted, intensely paced and brilliantly acted from all involved players, and a film thats easily Lumets best since Network. Hoffman’s reliably superb while Albert Finney, as the lads’ father, is as good as he’s ever been. Old fox Lumet deals out some flash cutting and time frame back-and-forths that, if not the Tarantino tango, are fairly adventurous. Proof that Sidney Lumets talent is, in every sense, timeless.