Review of Targets (1968) by Michael G — 21 Mar 2008
Targets is pretty damn good when you consider it had the budget of a pair of sneakers and cup of coffee. Some of the scenes were well done and the family scenes with the Thompsons and their eventual squeaky clean tragedy was great and disturbing all at the same time.
There was also a great nostalgic phoniness (and again, this may be the low budget talking here) to this movie that left me on edge. Unfortunately the story never gets there (or really goes anywhere for that matter), Boris Karloff's performance is hammy as sin and I'm aware that this was Bogdanovich's first film but the execution was really weak at points.
The climax, as entertaining and silly as it was, is a prime example. (Getting your ass kicked by a feeble Boris Karloff---okay.) Targets is good, but if you expect to be entertained instead of amazed you shouldn't be disappointed.
This review of Targets (1968) was written by Michael G on 21 Mar 2008.
Targets has generally received positive reviews.
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