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“I couldn’t be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, it’s possible to get another. There’s only one Maltese Falcon.”
Suspense thriller, it’s a close and heavy film, a classic private eye story with an iconic statue that turns out is as hard to get hold of a perfect replica in real life as the original was in the film!
★★★★★
“A Roman general once said, ‘If you want peace, plan for war.'”
A smart movie about drugs and crime: real gangster-ing happens in daylight and no-one ever suspects a thing, never do anything for the glory, and if you’re going to kill someone never ever tell another living soul.
★★★★✩
“You really think you’re ready for the field? I once used defibrillators on myself. I put shards of glass in my fuckin’ eye. I’ve jumped from a high-rise building using only a raincoat as a parachute and broke both legs upon landing; I still had to pretend I was in a fucking Cirque du Soleil show! I’ve swallowed enough microchips and shit them back out again to make a computer. This arm has been ripped off completely and re-attached with *this* fuckin’ arm.”
Everything surrounding Melissa McCarthy in Spy is hilarious (Statham particularly), but I don’t find her brand of humour funny at all.
★★✩✩✩
“You don’t have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.”
One of my favourite films: Hitchcock, Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, the Riviera, I could watch it on repeat; it’s a perfect movie.
★★★★★
“Did you get that?” “Yeah…”
Not as good as the original Spanish [REC] but effective and one of the first films I can remember to truly freak me out thanks to the tense last 15 minutes.
★★★✩✩