You like noir, you say? Sin City tickle you? Did you want to chain smoke cigarettes and go after those who wronged your dame? After Brick, were you wondering why your high school experience was soft boiled in comparison.
I dig noir almost as much as I dig sci-fi. They both have their tropes, but these days with actioneers bleeding into sci-fi/fantasy territory because it allows people to make pretty CGI, the hard boiled detective noir stories look like a series of cliches.
I’m not sure if it’s bad that director Russell Mulcahy (Resident Evil: Exitinction) and writer Mark Hosack have the dame in red, the detective behind his desk and stoic reaction shots of Thomas Jane as he unravels the deal gone wrong.
This is how familiarity works for non-franchise films. If you’re into noir and violence and caper films, the second trailer for Give ‘Em Hell Malone (the first was just violence) actually does what it’s supposed to: shows you what to expect.
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