"Way of the gun" begins with a prologue that makes you think you can fear the worst.Did the writers want to break all the records as far as swearwords are concerned? and however there is a strong competition in this field.Then ,after the cast and credits,the screenplay becomes absorbing,introducing a lot of characters who are not what they seem at first sight.The film often leaves the central threesome (Lewis,Del Toro,Philippe)and tells us a lot about the others.Each of theses characters seem to have his own story,and the story even verges on melodrama.An example:we do think that the doctor is only a fleeting part whereas he plays a very important part in the plot.
But in the last third ,the movie loses steam :it resembles a Peckinpah movie and it's only guns and blood ,fusillade and violence (and tortures).The writers seem to have jettisoned all that made their screenplay worthwhile.The last (very short) sequence was not neither surprising nor convincing:I felt there was something missing.
The cast is excellent,with Juliette Lewis the stand-out:painless childbirth nohow.
But in the last third ,the movie loses steam :it resembles a Peckinpah movie and it's only guns and blood ,fusillade and violence (and tortures).The writers seem to have jettisoned all that made their screenplay worthwhile.The last (very short) sequence was not neither surprising nor convincing:I felt there was something missing.
The cast is excellent,with Juliette Lewis the stand-out:painless childbirth nohow.