Two teenage assassins accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, until an unexpected target throws them off their plan.
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two of the most ineffective "assassins" in history in a plot that completely rips off the first 2 mons of pulp fiction. 3:19 seconds in to watching them fire about 1000 rounds from unsilenced guns into a guy (instead of just shooting him in the head) and I gave up. If this filmhas any redeeming qualities - I will be surprised - but based on the first 3m 20s - it's truly truly awful. Last movie I saw that was SO bad I gave up in under 10 mins was Suicide Squad - so it's WORSE than that!!!!!
James Gandolfini tries to convey a vision through his acting that is real in his comprehension. A lot of his role is not acting and that is the part that cuts you like a knife, it makes it a legacy film like no other. He is aware of his coming demise in reality and in the film, When he explains himself a lot of is answer is just who and what his life really is. A lot of it is just acting and even the acting is great. The two girls are so innocent and since they are they don't have a blackened souls yet, even though such people would be very dark in some crazy way it could be possible in this crazy world to have such innocent assassins. It makes them into tools like men, but they are so efficient that men are just tools to them. James brings them to an unveiling of reality that comes to the viewers eyes. Like an indelible mark his presence will remain forever in daisy's heart and in you from his soul to yours. This is one of the classics forever.
Violet (Alexis Bledel) and Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) are a pair of gum chewing teenage hit women dressed as nuns who casually kill bad guys in New York. They take on a new hit to snuff out a mystery man (James Gandolfini) who crossed some villains and seems rather serene to his fate.This encounter to a man who casually awaits his death gives both young women a period of reflection. They are both overgrown girls and also emotionally retarded. They ride to hits on tricycles, jump on beds excitedly to the pop sounds of the latest teen idol and are deadly with a gun. The film does not progress much more than that and gives little depth to their characters and motivations. Rather disappointing as the writer/director wrote the Oscar winning screenplay to Precious.The film is a sub Quentin Tarantino rip off and an out of date one by 15 years. We see scenes of hits replayed from various angles and slow motion. We see people acting wacky giving us wisecracks and talking cute but it never amounts to much. Its just a boring and bad film instead of being hip and cool.Its a shame as James Gandolfini and Marianne Jean-Baptiste do their best to lift this botched film.
I had great expectations for this movie. I mean, how could you miss with the great James Gandolfini and wonderful Saoirse Ronan as headliners (and Alexis Bledel is certainly eyeworthy), and yet the first time through this film I did not enjoy the experience. Then it dawned on me, well, duh, this film is intended to be a Tarantino parody, and it went up several stars in my estimation. Of course, making a parody of a QT film is problematic, because Quentin films are already parodies of other genres such as kung fu, grindhouse, and noir. And so, in a sense, the filmmaker is making a parody of a parody. I mean, Saoirse playing patty-cakes with Danny Trejo? The scene is totally Quentinesque to a ludicrous extreme. And that's parody.Other motifs that echo and exaggerate Tarantino's style include the implausible violence sequences that can only exist in some alternate film universe (think Black Mamba single-handedly wiping out a small army of yakuza in "Kill Bill,") and the interminable gabfest that fills out a QT script (these people love to talk and talk and talk)... And so, as a parody of a parody, and for its very impressive cast, this film is worth an amused watch.