Along with Taxi Blues, which was also directed by Pavel Lungin, Tycoon was my least favorite film. It wasn't so much the Citizen Kane style narrative that many critics mentioned as hindering the film {after all, what is so bad about Citizen Kane?} but more the lack of an appealing or cohesive visual style. When I look back on the film there is not one shot that i think of as memorable and I usually subscribe to the notion that every film should contain at least one perfect frame. I found Tycoon is be an overly cliche gangster film and although it was action packed, it bored me. I would have liked to have seen a more polished aesthetic and a more edited down narrative as there was an excess of information yet many characters were undeveloped. For such a glossy Hollywood tale, the presentation fell flat in my opinion.Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Tycoon
Along with Taxi Blues, which was also directed by Pavel Lungin, Tycoon was my least favorite film. It wasn't so much the Citizen Kane style narrative that many critics mentioned as hindering the film {after all, what is so bad about Citizen Kane?} but more the lack of an appealing or cohesive visual style. When I look back on the film there is not one shot that i think of as memorable and I usually subscribe to the notion that every film should contain at least one perfect frame. I found Tycoon is be an overly cliche gangster film and although it was action packed, it bored me. I would have liked to have seen a more polished aesthetic and a more edited down narrative as there was an excess of information yet many characters were undeveloped. For such a glossy Hollywood tale, the presentation fell flat in my opinion.
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