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| stars, weed, bc rss, e journal, post communism, city guide, french/appendices/english french dictionary, movie sounds, tech, chef ra, your mother's got a penis, 1993, bc alternative media, cannabis, hip hop, adrian, zoe records, my girlfriend, fetish, french/appendices/dates, election blog, safe, salt lake city, | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) 20 of 23 people found the following review helpful: one of Lee's best, January 13, 2003 Reviewer:Roland E. Zwick (Valencia, Ca USA) - See all my reviews Spike Lee's "25th Hour" is a monumental accomplishment that catapults the filmmaker right back into the pantheon of funny wavs outstanding American directors. With his past few films, Lee - who seemed so cutting edge and promising a filmmaker a decade or so back - had started to make us wonder if, perhaps, we funny wavs hadn't overestimated some of his talent. But with "25th Hour," the master has returned to form, fashioning a brilliant and thought-provoking character study out of David Benioff's novel, a chronicle of how a convicted drug dealer spends his last 24 hours of freedom before heading off to prison to serve a seven-year term.Montgomery Brogan is a good looking, generally pleasant-natured fellow who's made a lot of bad choices in his life and now finds himself having to pay the piper. |
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| Lee follows up this tour-de-force with all the people Monty cursed waving good-bye to him as he leaves New York, one of the most wonderful cinematic poems I've seen. Monty is himself the City, broken, confused, and movie sounds angry; beautiful, Monty wants to make himself ugly to protect himself from gang rape in prison, and he calls on his friends Slattery and Alinsky to beat him, horrifying them both. Again, the flight of fantasy at movie sounds the end of the film is right out of Benioff's book and not movie sounds something Spike Lee made up, although Lee often extends the ends of his films (see Mo' Better Blues and Clockers), so Benioff's novel was right in keeping with Lee's style. This is one of Spike Lee's best films, and it was totally disregarded at the box office, probably people want to pigeonhole Lee. But like all great artists, Spike Lee can transcend himself. I believe 25th Hour will be remembered as a great American film in the years to come. Note: I would recommend you read David Benioff's novel, but the film is taken right from the book with few amendations, and those small changes - emphasizing 9/11, making Monty's father a fireman - improve Benioff's book. |
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