Review of Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) by Peneloper. — 28 Feb 2009
This movie is absurd: a relentless tumble from one horrible sequence of events to the next In essence, the viewer is inundated with each of the character's sins, ranging from homosexual heroin liaisons; to inter-family infidelities; to its filicidal climax.
.. The characters lack any humanity, are impossible to sympathize with--particularly once the viewer, half an hour in, starts to understand that they are merely the author's little self-destruct machines.
By the end, my partner and I were amusing ourselves by guessing in what contrived way it was about get worse. Correctly guessing, I might add. Predictability. Another of its sins. Only our shock-hungry generation cynical could buy this depiction of characters plowing so purposefully to their dooms as a morality tale.
Depressiobitionist is more like it.
This review of Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) was written by Peneloper. on 28 Feb 2009.
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead has generally received very positive reviews.
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