Review of The Big Bang (2011) by Doghouse R — 15 Jan 2019

This is basically a kind of weird rework of Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler. It's a gangster film set in the modern day, which makes it a different sort of animal altogether. I never imagined Phillip Marlowe-esque dialogue with an accent straight out of Desperado, but it works in it's own strange way.

I expected a low critic rating - this movie doesn't tickle that part of their insular and insignificant brains that compels them into a froth of glowing, smug rhetoric. But I expected a higher audience score.

Perhaps it's because this movie is so unexpected for Banderas that people didn't know how to take it. So here's the deal. It's brilliant. It's cool, it's sexy, it's clever, it's intelligent, it's compelling.

You don't get to assemble this sort of cast without a good script. Banderas, Sam Elliot, Delroy Lindo, William Fitchner...etc. I'll admit...it's weird. It's neither one thing nor the other.

..and I can't quite figure out why. But it's great. The drive across the desert scene has me mesmerised every single time to the point that I watch it on loop. Do yourself a favour and check it out with an open mind.

And then watch it again coz you will have missed half the nuance and dialogue the first time around. Thanks Tony Krantz...this one deserved way more love than what it got.