• skip to sidebar
  • skip to search box

trainedmonkey

by Jim Winstead Jr.

last man standing is a remake of akira kurosawa's excellent yojimbo, set in a prohibition-era mexican-border town. it's a reasonably faithful reinterpretation, but vastly inferior to the original, and also inferior to sergio leone's spaghetti western remake, a fistful of dollars. one of the things that absolutely kills this most recent version is the narration, which just sucks any mystery or tension out of the film.

» Friday, April 18, 2003 @ 12:30pm » 1 comment, add yours
« Tuesday, April 15, 2003 @ 5:08pm • i am nobody's little weasel »

Comments

Of course, all of these movies are based on Dashiell Hammett's excellent 1929 novel, "Red Harvest". I highly recommend giving it a read sometime (add it to your library queue).

» fritzkafka » Sunday, April 20, 2003 @ 3:54pm

Add a comment

Sorry, comments on this post are closed.

  • Home
  • About
  • Archive
  • Bookmarks
  • Photos
  • Projects
  • GitHub
  • @jimw@mefi.social

Dedicated to the public domain by Jim Winstead Jr.