Film particular but not distinguished for its particularity.
was directed by John Landis, who back after a long absence and felt ... there is some disappointment, we expect much more from one of the most original filmmakers on the planet.
after cult films like The Blues Brothers, the great An American Werewolf in London, Into the Night, Animal House and many others worthy of note ... perhaps we need to have less expectations, it seems difficult for many great artists have flashes of inspiration or genius of our times. Who knows. In Scotland the early nineteenth century the swindlers become grave robbers initially to meet the requirements of an important anatomy for his tuition, with the market growing, then they become killers, one for the rich and the other to win the woman he falls in love.
The film is grotesque, ironic humor of a very English indeed murder becomes a daring and got done with the utmost smoothness (so - it says in the movie - every man comes out of the womb already condemned to die), the two scoundrels are a cynical and materialistic, the other naively romantic and enchanted, contrast well. Everything here though.
I liked the words at the beginning of the film:
"This story is inspired to facts, except those who are not "
that already declare the honesty of dishonesty in dealing Landis freely and artistically the facts, mixing reality and fiction at will instead of the usual movie and more instead have to deal with real stories.
missing is the irreverent and disruptive anarchy of the past, this film seems just a pure "divertissement" for director, without any particular purpose.
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