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Summary: Great crime film
Review: "Killing Zoe" has to be one the most violent films, but oddly my favorite. Its the story of an American safecracker who gets out of prison and travels to Paris to rob a bank with his French friend, Eric. There he meets a prostitute named Zoe who happens to work at the bank they rob. The robbery is one of the most bloody in movie history with them gunning down anyone that gets in the way. At first I was uncomfortable with that but the story unfolds in a way that is so compelling you can't stop watching. Jean-Hughes Anglade was incredible in his portrayal of the evil Aids stricken Eric with no respect for human life. Eric is probably the most interesting character in the film. He's so ruthless and convincing that he's the one thing that makes this movie so great.There are also funny moments like the Billy Holiday albums, their night at the jazz club, the Viking movies and the little monkey. The movie is bizarre at times but its definitely unique. All in all, its a great film that I watch over and over again.
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Summary: "Killing Zoe" is just average.
Review: "Killing Zoe" is a slow moving bank hiest gone awry film that is no where near as involving or breathtaking as Quenton Tarintino's "Reservoir Dogs," which brilliantly tackles similar material. "Killing Zoe" simpley lacks Tarintino's energetic story telling abilities. It also lacks intresting characters we can relate to, complexity, and plot twists. It contains virtually no character developement and no big twists or turns in the plot. Not to mention the huge holes in logic.
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Summary: .
Review: A relatively bad movie which is helped primarily by an interesting premise and (here and there) some real style. The first half of this movie is drawn-out, poorly acted, and generally incredibly dull. The second half, once the heist begins, is circumstantially well set up and sometimes entertaining, at one or two points even a touch brilliant, but it isn't enough to counterbalance the questionable performances (save for the really mean French guy, he's great), the over-the-top gimmicks, the badly developed drama, and general chaotic, self-indulgent unevenness that plague the movie as a whole.
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Summary: Killing The Audience
Review: A very weak and uninspiring bank heist film that is completely predictable from the first 5 minutes into the movie. Overdone plot about a robbery gone wrong and the safe-cracker hero who has a heart. Nothing original here except for scenes too vulgar and tasteless to show on any film except for x-rated gay films.
The script is nil and the acting less than stellar. The screenplay is littered with intentional conincidences too absurd to be credible. I frankly could have done without the grotesque heroin-induced sodomy scenes. Watch "Heat" instead if you want to see a great bank heist film. Don't waste your time or money on this one, it's a sleeper at best: A negative rating is called for.
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Summary: Absolutely brilliant!!!
Review: All those who think it's just another Tarantino rip-off should know that both directors worked together in the same video store before making it big, were co-writers on Pulp Fiction and basically have helped each other out on several projects. It's just that Tarantino made his name first that everyone assumes Avary's work is copying it. Not true. This movie is amazing! The acting is superb - Jean-Hughes Anglade gives the most charismatic performance I've ever seen. It's shot brilliantly starting with neutral shades, to the blue night club scene and finally descending into the red bank scenes that symbolize Eric's own demented and violent mind. Been scapegoated for Hollywood's violence, really no more than tons of other flicks - I think the violence embedded in Eric's mind is what makes it seem so disturbing, not the actual physical violence. Julie Delpy and Eric Stoltz also give maybe their best performances to date. See this many times!!!
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Summary: A SANGUINE CONFECTION
Review: Bask in the hallucinatory nature of this orgiastic hypnagogic bloodbath and you will come out a placated child with a piece of carnal/carnage eye candy. The delectable Julie Delpy will make you salivate through the transcendental soul-corrosive dementia, as Gary Kemp monomaniacally riffs on Patrick MacGoohan in "The Prisoner", Eric Stoltz basks in the drugs, as acid-drenched Dixieland jazz blares in the background, a siren to implore you through the looking glass. And Jean-Hugues Anglade chews each frame with a lip-smacking, decadent Weimar appeal. Prepare to have your nerve endings snapped, "Killing Zoe" is the motherlode. God bless you, Roger Avary, bludgeon our senses one more time....
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Summary: Lame
Review: come on! never have i seen a more contrived, indulgent Tarantino rip off in my life. An unoriginal bore with hammy acting, unispired directing and an idiotic story.
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Summary: Show me the real Paris.
Review: Cool flick that distorts some of the usual action-flick macho-isms with a nice frosted layer of drugs, heroin, aids and dixieland jazz. The driving through Paris scene is enough! Very cool. Notice the sleepy euro techno track underneath it all; pretty sophisticated slice of sound. A somewhat oversimplified ending...but this movie has cartoon qualities that work nice for what it is. I love the actress that plays the bankteller... she is my dreamgirl from Paris.
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Summary: Disapointing.
Review: Despite all the talent surrounding "Killing Zoe" I found it to be routine and disapointing. How could the man who helped write the zany, unpredictable rollercoaster "Pulp Fiction" write and direct such a standard, dull movie? This movie rarely held my attention and I felt it was pretentious and contrived. Also, it lacked the surprise and insanity of "Reservoir Dogs," which it frequently seemed to be ripping off and copying off of.
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Summary: This is a very cool crime-noir movie
Review: Don't listen to Leonard Maltin--a stooge for the Disney Company. This movie surpasses some Tarantino movies with it's nihilistic anti-hero, Eric, who can engender laughs and revulsion at the same time. Plus, if the French have not made Julie Delpy into a national treasure, it shows that they have not learned anything since they guillotined all of the smart people in 1796.
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