Al Pacino and Karl Urban's new movie 'Hangman' was terrible
Dec 4, 2017 17:17:17 GMT
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Post by The Social Introvert on Dec 4, 2017 17:17:17 GMT
Here is my review:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxP3iWs4YXY
If you prefer reading, I wrote it up here:
I knew, more or less, what I was getting into with this film. I was only watching it in the first place because I wanted to see something with Pacino on it. I knew it would be some useless, unmemorable movie but sometimes you just want to watch your favourite actors in action again, even if they’re way past it and are phoning it in. Plus Karl Urban’s in it.
But what really takes the cake is that when you with a film for one specific actor, knowing that the film itself will be rubbish, but it turns out that that actor is actually the worst thing about the film. I’m sorry to say it, but Pacino in the Hangman looks like he’s about to slip and fall right into his grave any second. He looks so old, way too old for some of the stuff that happens to him in this film. And his acting was really weird. I don’t know what accent he was trying to do. He was giving it this hillbilly “year, I’m from tex-as” whilst also kinda sounding like he was from the hood. It was really bizarre. And his voice is really starting to go. There were a few scenes where he needs to shout, and he emits this high pitch shriek which made me feel a bit sorry for him. In addition to this, in every scene the guy looked like he just woke up second before the cameras started rolling. And what is it with this leather jacket. Is it me, or has he worn the same leather jacket in almost every film he’s been in in the last 10 years?
So now that we’ve gotten out of the way that the only reason I watched the film turned out to be a crushing disappointment – onto the rest. Hangman concerns 2 detectives, Urban and Pacino, Pacino having come out of retirement for this job, who try to track down a dude who is hanging people on a noose around town, and then leaving a graffiti hangman figure with a word, missing out letters, on a nearby wall or something. Yes, people, like the children’s game. For some reason he hangs a new person at 11 pm everyday, so naturally our dynamic duo work round the clock to make sure he doesn’t get a chance to kill his next potential victim. Wait, is that what I just said? No, what I meant was they sit around on their asses in the office drinking coffee, before some timely placed dramatic music reminds them to look at the clock and shock horror it’s almost 11, time to get up and do some detective work.
Long story short, this film does not deserve your time at all. Its bottom of the barrel, only getting a minute amount of recognition because of who’s in it. It’s just dull, lacks an ounce of creativity and just bobbles along at a meandering pace. I was shocked at the lack of drama or energy – there’s one scene where the two walk into a house and they see someone they know strung up, choking, fighting for their life. And they’re like, “Oh look, there’s that person, better go help”, and they literally amble across the hallway during their heroic rescue.
Much of the movie doesn’t make a lick of sense. The cops regularly find a, we’ll use the word “clue” here lightly, and it vaguely, potentially might be linked to a location of some sorts where another victim might be being strung up, but it really is a massive stretch, but the cops act like they’ve solved a rubix cube and charge to the next destination, where of course, it’s found that they were correct and a victim is found to be struggling for their life.
So the interesting bits of this film isn’t the acting, it isn’t the detective work, it definitely isn’t the reveal of the killer. It is nothing. The film isn’t interesting at all.
There’s no need to flatter this film by spending this much time on it, and it would be a solid 4 out of 10 for me. I say solid 4, like that’s a good thing, but it's better than nothing. But it doesn’t get a four because they couldn’t just finish the film off by letting it have its boring conclusion, oh no. You know how at the end of some shitty slasher movies, once they’ve chopped the bad guys head off and buried him, and he definitely is dead…and then in the last second of the movie the protagonist goes to bed or something and then the boogeyman says surprise and jumps out of the closet or from under the bed…yeah, this film goes down that route. So that just knocked a point of, giving Hangman a 3 out of 10.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxP3iWs4YXY
If you prefer reading, I wrote it up here:
I knew, more or less, what I was getting into with this film. I was only watching it in the first place because I wanted to see something with Pacino on it. I knew it would be some useless, unmemorable movie but sometimes you just want to watch your favourite actors in action again, even if they’re way past it and are phoning it in. Plus Karl Urban’s in it.
But what really takes the cake is that when you with a film for one specific actor, knowing that the film itself will be rubbish, but it turns out that that actor is actually the worst thing about the film. I’m sorry to say it, but Pacino in the Hangman looks like he’s about to slip and fall right into his grave any second. He looks so old, way too old for some of the stuff that happens to him in this film. And his acting was really weird. I don’t know what accent he was trying to do. He was giving it this hillbilly “year, I’m from tex-as” whilst also kinda sounding like he was from the hood. It was really bizarre. And his voice is really starting to go. There were a few scenes where he needs to shout, and he emits this high pitch shriek which made me feel a bit sorry for him. In addition to this, in every scene the guy looked like he just woke up second before the cameras started rolling. And what is it with this leather jacket. Is it me, or has he worn the same leather jacket in almost every film he’s been in in the last 10 years?
So now that we’ve gotten out of the way that the only reason I watched the film turned out to be a crushing disappointment – onto the rest. Hangman concerns 2 detectives, Urban and Pacino, Pacino having come out of retirement for this job, who try to track down a dude who is hanging people on a noose around town, and then leaving a graffiti hangman figure with a word, missing out letters, on a nearby wall or something. Yes, people, like the children’s game. For some reason he hangs a new person at 11 pm everyday, so naturally our dynamic duo work round the clock to make sure he doesn’t get a chance to kill his next potential victim. Wait, is that what I just said? No, what I meant was they sit around on their asses in the office drinking coffee, before some timely placed dramatic music reminds them to look at the clock and shock horror it’s almost 11, time to get up and do some detective work.
Long story short, this film does not deserve your time at all. Its bottom of the barrel, only getting a minute amount of recognition because of who’s in it. It’s just dull, lacks an ounce of creativity and just bobbles along at a meandering pace. I was shocked at the lack of drama or energy – there’s one scene where the two walk into a house and they see someone they know strung up, choking, fighting for their life. And they’re like, “Oh look, there’s that person, better go help”, and they literally amble across the hallway during their heroic rescue.
Much of the movie doesn’t make a lick of sense. The cops regularly find a, we’ll use the word “clue” here lightly, and it vaguely, potentially might be linked to a location of some sorts where another victim might be being strung up, but it really is a massive stretch, but the cops act like they’ve solved a rubix cube and charge to the next destination, where of course, it’s found that they were correct and a victim is found to be struggling for their life.
So the interesting bits of this film isn’t the acting, it isn’t the detective work, it definitely isn’t the reveal of the killer. It is nothing. The film isn’t interesting at all.
There’s no need to flatter this film by spending this much time on it, and it would be a solid 4 out of 10 for me. I say solid 4, like that’s a good thing, but it's better than nothing. But it doesn’t get a four because they couldn’t just finish the film off by letting it have its boring conclusion, oh no. You know how at the end of some shitty slasher movies, once they’ve chopped the bad guys head off and buried him, and he definitely is dead…and then in the last second of the movie the protagonist goes to bed or something and then the boogeyman says surprise and jumps out of the closet or from under the bed…yeah, this film goes down that route. So that just knocked a point of, giving Hangman a 3 out of 10.
