Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Two for None

Hammett (1982)
directed by Wim Wenders Francis Ford Coppola
rating: 3 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix

Hammett works as a foray into artifice - Zoetrope's One From the Heart sound stages are still lovely to look at - but the script isn't much of an homage to anything. It sounds cheap and trips and never makes it very far, unless it's on the novelty of Blue Duck's widow's peak. Plus all of those famous faces just strafe for being wasted.