Okay people... can we talk about Way of The Gun?
I loved this film, despite it's tonal whiplashes and plot holes. It feelt like a mix between Michael Mann and Peckinpah. An action movie with some really smart and engaging gunplay. All the various teams of gunmen and their interests where a joy to watch. It's a movie with style and smarts in spades!
Yet it's reception seems to have been horrible! Nobody talks about this film anywhere! It has a 6.8 on IMDB and 48% on Rottentomatos!
I found it way better than similar yet well-received action-flick like... say... Boondock Saints, (and I think Boondock Saints is a very good film). Why has this movie been sweept under the rug? Is it just me or do other people like Way of the Gun too?
One of my favorites. I think it just got written off as a wanna be pulp fiction with existential criminals. It's an amazing modern day western with truly memorable dialogue. The whole Mexican brothel ending is my favorite shootout since the wild bunch.
Boondocks saints while enjoyable is not even in the same ballpark
My favorite bit of dialogue
Longbaugh: I've been watching them pile up. Nightstick, flashlight, bulletproof vest.
Joe Sarno: Fuckin' utility belts, right?
Longbaugh: Fuckin' sign on his head reading "Why Bother?"
Joe Sarno: Hey, they love to say shit like "ascertain".
Longbaugh: "Surveillance."
Joe Sarno: "Affirmative."
Longbaugh: "I need backup."
Joe Sarno: "Adjudicate."
Longbaugh: "Adjudicate"?
Joe Sarno: Yeah, well...
Longbaugh: But, you know, then you got the other side. You got these trigger-happy cocksuckers all about the shooting and posturing and 'you don't know who I am' kind of thing..."I been to prison."
Joe Sarno: 'cuase you got caught, dumb fuck.
Longbaugh: These days, they want to be criminals more than they want to commit crime.
Joe Sarno: Well that's... that's not just crime. That's the way of the world.