Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Winter Kills

Jeff Bridges

Paranoid thriller(?) roughly based on the Kennedy assassination. Intended as a black comedy I think...but way over the top performances tell me this director didn't have a clear idea how to get what he wanted. Absurd cartoon-like touches alienated me from the beginning and eventually became unbearable.

Black comedy must be underplayed or it becomes farce...like this film. Interesting cast...John Huston, Sterling Hayden, Anthony Perkins, Richard Boone et al...couldn't pull this mess out of the dumpster where it rightly belongs.

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