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...burglarizing the post office. As the heist goes on, two of the robbers argue over their situation, using Van Damme primarily as a bargaining chip, while a third makes more immediate use of the aging acting hero: having Van Damme kick cigarettes out of his fellow hostages??€™ mouths for his own enjoyment.Taking place for a short time in the United States, and then moving to Belgium for the remainder, the entire movie is shot in a striking amber tone. Aside from more clearly revealing the lines on Van Damme’s face, the hue also serves...
...film’s weaknesses: it belabors the psychoanalytical connection between sex and violence. In one particularly egregious scene, Kauffman suffers from vivid flashbacks of the Munich massacre while making love to his wife. Spielberg cuts the scene so that Kauffman climaxes coincides with the terrorists executing their hostages??€”I doubt even Freud would invite such a literal correlation. Thankfully, such missteps are few and far between. Impressively, Spielberg is able to maintain the film’s momentum even after the protagonists have ended their assignment. Kauffman’s reflection on the psychic cost of protracted...
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