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I've always been terribly bored by Jeremy Renner on screen. I'm really impressed that he was able to excel so well in a role that ideally would have been played by Joe Pesci thirty years ago.
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echoplex posted:To me it feels like the film moves towards an "alls well that ends well" ending, and overall I'd have said the tone was lighter than it was darker purely for the comedy side of things. To me it doesn't really fit - it skews bleak in a way that is divorced from the rest of the film perhaps? Carmine and Irving are crooks out of necessity. They understand the world is corrupt, and they compromise themselves accordingly for the greater good (New Jersey; Irving's family). Richie on the other hand sees himself as a hero, clearly fighting for good. His assumptions about himself and who the FBI are allow him and other agents to just become a rival street gang. The attempted rape and the assault show that Richie is just a mentally broken and sad man looking to validate himself through whatever means. He just chose a badge instead of life of crime. In the end, I don't think we really get a happy ending. Carmine's in jail with a ruined career. Irving's son is probably worse off than when the movie started as he splits his time with the Tellegio crime family. Sure Richie got his comeuppance, but his boss is still in charge. The movie ends with the notion that it's a lovely world defined by crime where nobody comes out uncompromised. I don't think it's a happy movie is what I'm saying.
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