But the film runs out of steam about two-thirds of the way in. Terrific, too, are the all-too-truthful jabs at high-school popularity. HEATHERS - *** - Filmmaker Michael Lehmann's 1989 dark comedy has taken on cult status, and it helped make stars out of both of its leads, Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. PG-13 (profanity, violence, nudity, vulgarity). KIKUJIRO - A decided change of pace for Japanese filmmaker "Beat" Takeshi Kitano (1997's acclaimed "Fireworks"), who directed and stars in this comedy-drama as an unrepentant, abrasive gambler who befriends a young boy trying to locate his long-missing mother. (Broadway, Carmike 12, Century, Gateway, Jordan Commons, Jordan Landing, Midvalley, Ritz.) PG-13 (violence, profanity, vulgarity, partial nudity, ethnic slurs, sex).
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I know, I know, I still need to get the cast names in there and Ill be eternally tweaking it, so if you have any corrections, feel free to drop me a line. This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of Art Of War. THE CREW - The title characters of this comedy are four aging mobsters (Richard Dreyfuss, Burt Reynolds, Dan Hedaya and Seymour Cassel), who retire to Miami Beach but wind up getting back into "the business." Carrie-Anne Moss ("The Matrix") and Jennifer Tilly co-star. Voila Finally, the Art Of War script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the Wesley Snipes movie. (Carmike 12 Century Holladay Jordan Commons Jordan Landing Midvalley Redwood, with "Nutty Professor II: The Klumps" Ritz Trolley North Trolley Square.) Eliza Dushku (TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" co-stars). (Century Holladay Jordan Commons Jordan Landing Midvalley Redwood, with "The Replacements" Trolley Corners Trolley North.īRING IT ON - Originally called "Cheer Fever," this comedy stars Kirsten Dunst as a cheerleader who panics when an inner-city squad "steals back" her team's routines as they prepare for a national competition. R (violence, profanity, sex, brief drug use). Not screened for local critics reviewed in this section. Donald Sutherland and Anne Archer co-star. Directed by Christian Duguay (the "Joan of Arc" television miniseries). Satire is a great tool in the right hands, but Lee didn’t have the touch this time around.THE ART OF WAR - Wesley Snipes stars in this action-thriller as a shadowy secret agent trying to prevent a war between the United States and China. While art is often effective in shining a light on problems that can get swept under the rug otherwise, Chi-Raq never hits home in the way that Lee intended. It’s nice to see Snipes in a high-profile role again, but the hamminess of the part does him no favors. Cannon does a solid job as well, subverting his America’s Got Talent persona. It remains watchable due the performance of Parris, a commanding presence in almost every scene in which she appears.
Likewise, the efforts of Father Mike Corridan (John Cusack) to heal his community aren’t given nearly the same importance as the excess of the rest of the film. Jennifer Hudson stars as a mother whose daughter was killed by a stray bullet, but her grief is never given a chance to truly take hold. The comedy and other bizarre moments also overwhelm any dramatic possibilities. The satirical elements of the film often get lost by Lee going over-the-top, epitomized by a midfilm seduction of a National Guard soldier by Lysistrata that delves incongruously into overt racism and sexual oddities. While the plot itself isn’t difficult to follow, Lee seems to get bogged down in the showiness of his story. For a film that’s mostly about sex, or the lack thereof, and violence, there’s remarkably little of either, although the talk about one or the other in explicit terms is almost nonstop. The film is a mash-up, using modern-day vernacular but delivering it in sometimes-tortured rhyme. Lysistrata (Teyonah Parris), sick of her boyfriend Chi-Raq (Nick Cannon) and his gang always being at war with a rival gang led by Cyclops (Wesley Snipes), bands together with women on both sides to institute a ban on sex until the two gangs decide to stop fighting. Set on the south side of Chicago, Lee uses the ancient Greek play Lysistrata as the basis for his story.
Writer/director Spike Lee, always someone willing to speak up when others won’t, is addressing one aspect of the problem with his latest film, Chi-Raq. As the news reminds us every day, gun violence continues to plague the United States, no matter where you live.
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