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The Big Bang
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September 6, 2011 "Please retry" | — | 1 | $16.98 | $1.67 |
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March 12, 2012 "Please retry" | — | 1 | $31.23 | $24.98 |
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Format | PAL |
Contributor | antonio banderas, tony krantz, delroy lindo |
Language | Italian, English |
Studio | rai cinema |
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- Aspect Ratio : 16:9, 1.78:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : G (General Audience)
- Package Dimensions : 6.69 x 5.35 x 0.55 inches; 2.12 Ounces
- Director : tony krantz
- Media Format : PAL
- Actors : antonio banderas, delroy lindo
- Subtitles: : Italian
- Language : Italian (DTS-HD High Res Audio), English (DTS-HD High Res Audio)
- ASIN : B00CH4RHBC
- Country of Origin : France
- Number of discs : 1
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Worth sitting through just to hear the waitress answer the question about when she is done with work.....
Watch it.
"The Big Bang," however, does. It's got drama, some truly interesting characters, a fortune in missing diamonds, ruminations on particle physics, a nice plot twist, humor, and some very good performances by a cast full of veteran actors ranging from Antonio Banderas to Sam Elliot.
The movie is an homage to Raymond Chandler and other mystery writers of the Thirties and Forties. If you are a fan of those novels, and the movies that were based on them, you'll recognize some of the characters and plot points. Banderas, for example, plays private detective Ned Cruz who has grown a little world weary, wondering what his life is all about when, on one night, a very large Russian boxer demands that he take a case. Cruz doesn't want to do it but is persuaded to do so because the Russian is willing to pay him a lot of money and because it involves finding a beautiful woman who has written to the boxer when he was in prison.
If you think this sounds a lot like "Murder, My Sweet" starring Dick Powell back in the day, you're right.
Cruz eventually finds the woman, a former stripper and porn star who is now the wife of an eccentric billionaire searching for what physicists call "The God Particle." Things get a little weird - in a good way - after that.
Much of the action takes place in a small room where Cruz is being interrogated by three cops. Straight out of crime dramas from the late Forties and early Fifties, this is a brutal interrogation and Cruz gets smacked around a bit during it but generally manages to keep his cool. In a series of flashbacks he tells the cops how he ended up both temporarily blind and in their custody. He convinces them to let him guide them to a place where millions of dollars worth of diamonds are hidden and the story switches to the present tense from then on.
This is not an overly violent movie, though a lot of violence is implied. It is also a pretty sexy one, including one scene in which Cruz and a waitress with some bizarre tattoos that are based on particle physics make love in a motel. Although erotic, it's also laced with humor.
It's not a mainstream movie but, for my money, this is an inventive and very enjoyable film.
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Banderas critics have had a field day with his classic detective -film noir - voiceover (it is a bit much to follow) but it's worth the effort. Great shame the DVD DOESN'T HAVE SUBTITLES but that seems to be the way with a lot of movies these days (I thought we were supposed to be more PC a'la Blaire - oh, only when it suits the spin monsters, of course).
Back to the movie; despite not hearing twenty percent of the dialogue, I enjoyed it and found Banderas' performance much better than most of the critics would suggest. He had just the right amount of cynical worldliness and human frailty required of any Mike Hammer / Sam Spade impersonator. Well scripted (loved the modern insertion of a Hadron collider) and Sam Elliot (also not noted to for his good diction) played the part of a modern cyber billionaire who obviously confused himself with g-d (hubris, eh) absolutely brilliantly. Female lead and back up were very easy on the eye but had substance too - good acting all round and well worth a look. Sadly, Bogart is safe though, so don't have too many expectations.