Movie Review - The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
directed by John Cassavetes
rating: 2 out of 5 jalapeños
on DVD from the vaults
If a great Cassavetes movie can't make me like John Cassavetes, then Opening Night, as the honored last title in Criterion's box set, is going to sit on the shelf a long time. "Bookie" makes Cosmo a sympathetic, selfish sap, a nightclub owner happy to kill to save his own life - not some ideal, not his girls, not his club. It also takes much too long to do it.
I reiterate that Cassavetes (Jefty!) was surely a humorless guy; his fans sure seem to be.
directed by John Cassavetes
rating: 2 out of 5 jalapeños
on DVD from the vaults
If a great Cassavetes movie can't make me like John Cassavetes, then Opening Night, as the honored last title in Criterion's box set, is going to sit on the shelf a long time. "Bookie" makes Cosmo a sympathetic, selfish sap, a nightclub owner happy to kill to save his own life - not some ideal, not his girls, not his club. It also takes much too long to do it.
I reiterate that Cassavetes (Jefty!) was surely a humorless guy; his fans sure seem to be.
posted by NPK at 8:00 AM
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