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MCT:May 22, 2008Saw it and liked it, want to see it again to give it a fair rating. Lancaster and Gardner sizzle in this one.
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MCT:April 29, 2008
Alluring fox Ava Gardner tempts a weary Burt Lancaster in this rambling faena of betrayal, theft, jealousy and murder.
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MCT:March 21, 2008Splendid noir, the femme fatale comes off as what she is later on and the entire swing just goes around. It makes the audience feel suspicious and throws clues around and yet makes it all fun. I love Lancaster's character, his greed and his flaws and his incessant need for success and his downfall was sad and pathetic and it blasts that to us full on.
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MCT:January 30, 2008Jim Reardon: How well did you know the Swede?
Charleston: Me? Mister, I guess me and the Swede were about as close as two guys can get. For nearly two years we weren't more than eight and a half feet apart. That's how big the cell was.
This is a very good film noir, made very well due to its style and the actors involved.
Two hitmen come to town after a man known as "the Swede." After a very good setup in a diner, the hitmen find who they are looking for and kill him. Strange thing is that the Swede did not put up a fight, he saw it coming and took it.
An insurance investigator, Edmond O'Brien, enters the scene, and after being given few details, goes to various people who knew the Swede in order to find out what really happened.
Big Jim Colfax: If there's one thing in this world I hate, it's a double-crossing dame.
It turns out that the Swede, played very well by Burt Lancaster, was formerly a boxer who fell on some bad luck after meeting the very lovely Ava Gardner. He ended up involving himself in a botched robbery involving some double crosses and the loss of the money.
We learn this information through a series of flashbacks told by different characters. This works well to develop Lancaster's character and how sympathetic he becomes after knowing what led him to the point seen in the opening.
Along with a very good story running throughout, the beginning and ending scenes of this movie are fantastic. It is also very steeped in it's noir atmosphere, providing for a very well made movie.
Reardon: When was the last time you saw him?
Charleston: Mister, did you say 'when?'
Reardon: Yes.
Charleston: Mister, when it comes to dates, 1492 is the only one I can remember. -
MCT:September 20, 2007
the best applauded movie adapted from hemingway's short story. (hemingway claims so.) also the crucial overnight success for burt lancaster and ava gardner. it was said that "the killers" is the film noir version of citizen kane, especially its posthumously introvert angle to tackle the lethalness of a woman who tunes the golden harps. (her weapon shall be love.) there're plot twists interwined together with the refreshing swift-paced move. lancaster gives a sympathetic portrait of a gangster romanticist who would sacrifice everything for the flaming passion. gardner's screen time is limited but impressive, a woman with the deadly charm which could take a man with one icy-cold glimpse. you can't help but captivated by her southern belle feline voice. there's also some otherworldly ethrealnss beneath her hell-cat sexy looks. perhaps most film noir pieces are demonstrating how un-worthy it is to devote your love to that she-devil. but it takes a real man or an original tough tough guy to embrace her in his bossom on the perils of becoming her tragic prey.
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MCT:August 22, 2007
An excellent film noir! Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner both give excellent performances; Gardner is superb in her portrayl of the dangerous Kitty Collins.
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MCT:June 27, 2007
Classic film noir. Some of the best film noir dialogue I've ever heard, especially the gangsters at the diner. Atmospheric, gloomy, and fatalistic.
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MCT:June 2, 2007
the best noir film ever. despite everyone's elses recommendations, only this movie left me feeling empty. well worth several viewings to catch each nuance.....
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MCT:May 29, 2007
Good and well built film-noir full of suspense and a superb plot and acting. Way to go Burt Lancaster :)
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MCT:May 14, 2007
A great example of early film noire... Ava Gardner is an amazing femme fatale and the ambiance of this film is ... to die for (hahaha pun!)
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MCT:April 15, 2007
Just an all around great movie. Gardner is H O T and its easy to see why Lancaster was such a chump for her. The opening is amazing and keeps it going through the end.
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