Review of Blood and Wine (1996) by Curtis H — 26 Aug 2011

Not a home run, but a solid hit anyway. Jack Nicholson and Michael Caine make a suitably seedy and menacing pair - Nicholson as a two-timing rat bastard who plans a Miami heist caper with the aid of inside girl and lover Lopez, and Caine (who comes across as the more interesting of the two) as a consumptive ex-con safercracker who desperately wants to die in the lap of luxury. After losing the goods to Nicholson's crippled and miserably neglected wife (a very natural and pitiful Judy Davis) and spiteful stepson Dorff. In spite of this terrific cast, the neo-noir script is no great shakes, we've seen all this before. Jack's performance is pretty one-dimensional and middle of the road, but it is great to see him working with Caine, whose character of the aging thief Vic alternates between grim pathos and.

Burning homicidal intensity.