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Excellent film. well made, well directed, well acted and a really good plot. I was already a fan of Iain (M) Banks when I first saw this at the cinema ( in Scotland ) but had not read this particular book. I did after I had seen it and actually found the film better than the book ( which is quite unusual esp as I am a really big fan of Banks ) as I found it better paced. it only roughly follows the plot of the book, with some of the major scenes missing or changed and a couple of new bits thrown in. dark and atmospheric , with a flawed hero and moral villain. and as with everything Banks very imaginative ( esp in the methods of execution ). my wife ( who doesn't read Banks ) loved this film as well. the DVD quality is good but there are not that much in the way of extras ( not that I ever pay much attention except to the deleted scenes )
Now if only someone would make 'Use of Weapons' ...
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Another Se7en or Tightrope
I was hoping to see something new in this film, this being an adaptation of a well-liked novel (I haven't read it myself) but during the viewing I began to sense that I had seen this somewhere before. Then it dawned on me that it was very similar to Se7en, in which certain people known to the main character meet untimely deaths in a sort of poetic justice manner; for instance an arms dealer is "disarmed" in a brutal fashion. Also similar is the way the main character takes the blame because the real killer can come and go without anyone seeing him. Films in a similar vein are The Hitcher and Tightrope.A story which has its roots in a childhood incident, the present scenario relies too heavily on implausible coincidences to move the action along; the killer can set up his killings by seemingly knowing what people will think and do, rather like the old Mission Impossible TV series. I will leave other people who have read the book to decide if this was an accurate adaptation. In my opinion, it was an OK film for an evening's viewing. Extras on the DVD are a 21 minute feature, The Story of a Journalist, and a Trailer.
