Tuesday 27 July 2010

Genre Collisions

No Way To Treat a Lady is a 1968 film about a serial killer who strikes up a unusual friendship with the homicide detective investigating him. Rod Steiger plays the disguise loving strangler & ramps his performance up to stratospheric levels of hammyness while George Segal smirks & eye rolls his way through his scenes with his overbearing Jewish mother and his new love interest/soon-to-be strangler fodder played by the beautiful Lee Remick. The somewhat awkward melange of violence and domestic comedy leads to a very odd atmosphere and despite a few nice scenes I wouldn't class the film as a success, especially with it's botched ending. hohum.


Not really sure what Operation Endgame was meant to be - a comedy? action thriller? well it was none of those and it's one of the weakest films I've seen in ages. Anyways a bunker full of odd secret agents is sealed off and they start killing each other for no apparent reason. It's got a decent cast including Galifianakis, Corddry, Rhames, Barkin & Tambor but the scripting & plot well, just plain awful, you hear about films that are so bad, so car crash fascinating they're hard to turn off but until now I'd never seen one.

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