Review of In Cold Blood (1967) by Dustin G — 15 Feb 2008
In Cold Blood.
I noticed two things right off the bat when watching Richard Brook's In Cold Blood. First, the cinematography is beauiful in all its chrome plated beauty. And two, the acting is terrifyingly BAD.
Right off the bat you have some terrible terrible acing going on. It makes no sense to cast bad actors in roles in a movie that is adapted from a Truman Capote book. Capote was such a brilliant writer, that having these people deliever his adapted lines is like having Corky recite Richard III.
As good as the other apsects of the movie might be, it's hard to get around that.
However, that is really its only downfall. The rest of the movie is very well done. A great job. The direction is strong and effective, the script is good, aside maybe from some cheese ball dialogue here and there.
It's a sad story. Both for the innocent and the guilty who are killed. Sad for the innocent because they never had a chance, or a choice. Sad for the guilty because they did, and killed anyway.
This review of In Cold Blood (1967) was written by Dustin G on 15 Feb 2008.
In Cold Blood has generally received very positive reviews.
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