Saturday, January 3, 2015

Kiss Me Deadly

Ralph Meeker    d/ Robert Aldrich

Still one of the best of the post-war PI films and one of the very few that hold up completely in 2015...in spite of the fact that the final scene was ludicrous.

Meeker plays a human bludgeon...forcing his way past obstacle after obstacle to find the pot of gold he suspects to find at the end of his rainbow. In fact he gets a bullet in the belly and a front row seat to nuclear annihilation.

The pacing here was spot on which allowed some sketchy stuff to pass muster but easily held the audience until the end. A good example of sharp, pointed filmmaking.

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