Yapım :1996 Ülke : Amerika İngiltere Tür : Thriller Süre : 101 dakika IMDB Puan : 6.0/10 IMDB ID: tt0115710
A.K.A Blood & Wine
Oyuncular Jack Nicholson - Alex Gates Stephen Dorff - Jason Jennifer Lopez - Gabriela 'Gabby' Judy Davis - Suzanne Michael Caine - Victor 'Vic' Spansky Harold Perrineau Jr. - Henry Robyn Peterson - Dina Reese Mike Starr - Mike John Seitz - Mr. Frank Reese Marc Macaulay - Guard
Bilgi :Bob Rafelson has stated that this is the final part of an informal trilogy he started with "Five Easy Pieces" and continued with "The King Of Marvin Gardens". In the three, Nicholson has now played son, brother and father. In this one, Nicholson is a wealthy wine dealer who has distanced himself from his wife with his philandering and from his son with his negligence. After he steals a diamond necklace with the help of a safecracker partner, Victor, things start coming apart. His wife sets out to interrupt what she thinks is another one of his weekend dalliances, but is really his trip to pawn the jewels.
Review :
Good films spawn imitators. This could probably best be seen with Scream and Pulp Fiction, but the Coen brothers' 1996 film, Fargo, for which they won the Best Picture Academy Award, has spawned its own fair share of imitators too, like Blood and Wine, Set in Miami, Blood and Wine could best be described as Fargo, minus the Coen brothers' eccentric charm and delectable characters.
1997 was a good year for Jack Nicholson. With his lovably surly performance as Melvin Udall in director James Brooks' As Good as it Gets, Nicholson reached out and grabbed the hearts of American audiences and Academy voters alike, winning a well deserved Oscar for his work. Sadly, his work here in Blood and Wine doesn't quite reach that same caliber of acting. Nicholson isn't capable of turning in a poor performance like Ernie Hudson (The Substitute), although Man Trouble does quickly come to mind, but nothing positive stands out about Nicholson's performance, or any of the other actor's performances in director Bob Rafaelson's Blood and Wine. I remember Michael Caine's trying to cough a lot, and Jennifer Lopez's attempt at a Cuban accent, but that was it.
Interestingly, Blood and Wine suffers from the same problem that I felt Fargo suffered from: the crime gone wrong story at the heart of the movie just isn't that interesting. Nicholson and Caine star as Alex and Victor, respectively. Together, they plot to steal a million-dollar diamond necklace. Once in possession of the necklace, they immediately part company with it as Alex's wife, Suzanne (Judy Davis) unwittingly leaves him, taking the suitcase that Alex had been hiding the necklace in with her. At this point in time, it seemed as if something could have happened. Quite simply, Suzanne and her son, Jason (Stephen Dorff) have one million dollars of merchandise that Alex and Victor desperately want. This was more than enough material for The Last Seduction to work with, but in the case of Blood and Wine, the script merely peters out. Things happen, people die, and as the credits role, you are left wondering what the point of the whole thing was.
The physical production of this film is outstanding. Rafaelson, who has worked with Nicholson on six other movies, has created a stylistically beautiful movie in Blood and Wine based off of a script that just doesn't deserve that kind of red carpet treatment.
