Review of Blood and Wine (1996) by Richard D — 11 Jan 2018
Jack Nicholson and Judy Davis have an unhappy marriage. He is running a failing wine store financed by a mortgage on her house and sleeping with Jennifer Lopez. She drinks way too much. He has teamed up with aging, fatally ill professional thief Michael Caine to rob the house of one of his clients.
They steal a million dollar diamond necklace, and as Nicholson is packing to fly to New York and fence it, he fights with Davis and she clocks him across the head with her cane. She grabs a suitcase and runs, inadvertently taking the necklace with her.
She goes into hiding with Stephen Dorff, her son from her first marriage, while Nicholson tries to find them while holding off an increasingly agitated and violent Caine. This 6th collaboration between Bob Rafelson and Nicholson is a really spiffy little modern noir that mainly suffers from having the amazingly mediocre Dorff in a very prominent role.
The actors surrounding him are wonderful, especially Caine who brings a nice balance of patheticness and ferocity to his character.
This review of Blood and Wine (1996) was written by Richard D on 11 Jan 2018.
Blood and Wine has generally received mixed reviews.
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