Before The Devil Knows You're Dead, DO NOT DIE BECAUSE OF GOD OR LIBRA
By Oscar Soler P.
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is not good to put a brother in such a matter. Especially if you know that that is unable to carry out the plan. Although, of course, if the issue is so desperate that includes jewelry robbery of parents, I guess makes sense to go to the little brother to do the dirty work. It must be very wrong, but that's what the family.
are brothers Andy and Hank. Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a businessman on the brink of ruin and Hank a man and broke and without awith a tragicomic touch, as in
Dog Day Afternoon (1975), ends in a tragedy forget it. Critics say it's the classic story of a robbery where things go as planned robbers. They do not go as planned, they say. Do not leave for nothing. Is that not out. There is more to see Hank's face when the subject is twisted. The best plane of the whole film has this man (Ethan Hawke), into the car, broke into a grimace of terror, while waiting to leave with the loot. With his disguise and fake hair. It happens at the beginning of the film. Lumet empty the magazine from the first sequence, and not run out of bullets until the end. Another issue is the soundtrack.
Mailermakes it a disservice to the musical work of Carter Burwell, but this rarely happens. The film continually repeated the same theme, nothing cloying, and that leaves no doubt about how it will end the feast that has mounted the title family. A sharper end of it, and still expecting more. Could still end up much worse. The film is made for that: to end a terrible end, with the worst possible. But Lumet loose a little rope so that the viewer keep breathing. Continue breathing the characters is another story. 