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He doesn't slip on the banana peel of useless pathetic scenes to extenuate Jazek's guilt and to mitigate the brutality of the crime, not interested at all in proximate psychological motivations to justify any display of extreme or violent behaviors and refusing to include any useless judicial proceedings.
In other words, in Kieslowsky's opinion "a crime is always a crime": according to the principle of "par condicio" he puts the prosecutor on the same plane as the condemned man, using many signs or symbols to represent a society seen in the most sinister light.
These days, with all the blood and gore in the news and in crime dramas, reality shows, etc. it's nice to get lost in a good, cheesy show with entertaining characters.
Sharky's Machine is a crime drama set in early 80's Atlanta.
It stars Burt Reynolds as a renegade cop who is hellbent on stopping crime and corruption in his city.
The story is about a dirty politician who is at the top of a crime ring that has been brining the city to it's knees.
In a mystery series in which the crime is shown at the beginning of the drama, this twist could reasonably be used only once or twice, and this was Columbo's time.
I've been writing hardboiled crime fiction for a number of years now.
There never is the perfect crime, and Armored showed why.
a compact crime drama with a good amount of action.
Jean-Pierre Melville is a director I've only recently gotten acquainted with (I need to see Bob le Flambeur and Le Samourai again to fully grasp them), but in watching Le Cercle Rouge (The Red Circle, supposedly based on a saying in Buddhism) I realized I was watching as skillful and absorbing a crime film as I had seen in a quite some time.
Lorenzo Lamas once again proves his talent as a cop who committed the worst crime a good cop can commit, by being a good cop.
So the first crime they commit is murder?
When the wife disappears, her sister begins a vigorous search involving the local police, state government, and a television crime show.
It is about a woman with a fascination of death who gets a job cleaning up after crime scenes, Angela Jones is unconvincing in this role, William Baldwin is better as the Serial Killer who keeps Jones in employment!.
file: Whoopi Goldberg plays a cop in the future who is teamed with a talking dinosaur (!) for a crime case involving a madman who wants to start another ice-age.
This is his one dimensional characterization of a crime boss, with very predictable results.
Buck and Blanche went to convince Clyde to go straight much earlier than the one shootout, and in fact got drawn back into crime.
In the wake of the hit-man's assault upon Collins, a pair of police detectives, performed by Joe Grifasi and Dean McDermott, become increasingly curious concerning Isabelle's possible involvement in the crime, while at the same time reality dawns upon enraptured Richard who might have to pay a dear price in return for his inamorata's maneuvering.
I'm not saying that urban crime wasn't a problem for a lot of people or that schools weren't/aren't problem areas but this vile piece of exploitation takes the biscuit.
Violence is beyond anything realistically imaginable but in this case it's not a case of social issues but a white, upper-middle class student uses it to turn himself into the crime kingpin of his local high schoiol.
The film is definitely in the surreal tradition of Bunuel's Mexican period, and looks at times like a poor man's take on Lars Von Trier's Elements of Crime.
But the book--a slow-burning, noir thriller with lots of pulp--should have translated into an Oscar-contending film instead of this dud that couldn't figure out whether it should faithfully portray the hard-boiled, gritty crime story of the book, or opt for a 1980s Schwarzenegger shoot-em-up spree.
The descendant of Irish immigrants, Kelly became a fugitive and an outlaw after he was falsely accused of shooting an Australian law officer, a crime for which his equally innocent mother was put into prison.
There really are no redeeming factors here, and watching these wonderful actors struggling with such weak material is a crime.
It's amazing that they allow this kind of smut to even be released on video, it should be a crime!!
It is the story of an organized crime group that has successfully stolen a capsule of the lethal virus.
There is no deductive reasoning,no acute analysis of signs at crime scenes.
Goodgfellas it isn't but its one of the better crime films done.
The fact that its rating (at the time of this writing) is 3.6 is a crime against humanity.
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