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In Italy, a woman fears her sister may have been kidnapped. Inspector Enzo Avolfi fears it's worse. They team up to rescue her from a sadistic killer known only as Yellow. full summary | add synopsis
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Sitges ’09: My Sitges Story—Part 8
(From Fangoria. 14 October 2009, 2:37 PM, PDT)
Ferrara and Snipes re-team for 'Game of Death'
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(From Fangoria. 14 October 2009, 2:37 PM, PDT)
Ferrara and Snipes re-team for 'Game of Death'
(From ioncinema. 7 October 2009)
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Routine slasher affair not worthy of the master's name and I say this with the affection of a longtime fan
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(Credited cast) | Adrien Brody | ... | Inspector Enzo Avolfi |
 | Emmanuelle Seigner | ... | Linda |
 | Elsa Pataky | ... | Celine |
 | Robert Miano | ... | Inspector Mori |
 | Byron Deidra | ... | Yellow |
 | Silvia Spross | ... | Russian Victim |
| Valentina Izumi | ... | Keiko |
| Luis Molteni | ... | Sal |
| Daniela Fazzolari | ... | Sophia |
 | Lorenzo Pedrotti | ... | Delivery Boy |
| Taiyo Yamanouchi | ... | Toshi |
| Giancarlo Judica Cordiglia | ... | Desk Sergeant |
| Barbara Mautino | ... | Nurse |
| Maryann McIver | ... | Girl In Bookstore |
| Giuseppe Lo Console | ... | Butcher |
| Anna Varello | ... | Butcher's Wife |
| Liam Riccardo | ... | Baby Yellow |
| Massimo Franceschi | ... | Coroner |
| Linda Messerlinker | ... | Girl Victim |
| Nicolò Morselli | ... | Young Enzo |
| Farhad Re | ... | Designer |
| Patrick Oldani | ... | Officer Gian Luca |
| Andrea Redavid | ... | Officer #1 |
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Byron Diedra, the pseudonym Adrien Brody went under to play Giallo, is an anagram of his name.
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The high point in the film comes midway in the form of Adrian Brody's childhood flashback: the camera heaves this side and that inside an amber-lit room as though floating in the air while a music box lullaby that brings back memories of Goblin's School at Night theme from Profondo Rosso chimes in the background. Other than that, the movie might as well have been called "Routine Slasher" because there's nothing that recalls the glorious days of the Italian giallo here, no wink or homage or black-gloved killer stalking distraught heroines in kitsch/chic apartments countryside villas and medieval architecture and certainly none of the Technicolor phantasmagoria Argento and his peers conjured on celluloid 30 years ago because anyone who has followed Argento's career knows he has been working in dark muted DV canvases for the past 10 years, this absence of style flooded with wooden acting bad English from non-English speaking actors and a script the sum of plot contrivance happenstance and logic jumps. Some will argue these have been staples of Argento's career and I will disagree because their place has always been peripheral to a certain grand guignol aesthetic by whose outrageousness, stylistic or otherwise, they have been always relegated to the margins. If Mother of Tears was a bold step in the direction of Phenomena's schizophrenic conclusion, this is a step backwards to the undistinguished wormanlike nature of Il Cartaio and Ti Piace Hitchcock. Everything here is generic. The score sounds like Batman Returns throwaways (Claudio Simonetti's absence is sorely felt), the villain is a curious mixture of pathetic and creepy, Argento's stylized violence is conspicuously absent. This is a serial killer movie trying to balance between crime procedural and slasher such as one may find in Lionsgate's STD catalogue. If you're looking for the giallo homage the title promises, you'll find it in Sleepless. This is a routine affair not worthy of the master's name or his fans' time and money.