Overview
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.
This is ther rare movie that I seemed to like a little less after I had time to digest it. Don’t get me wrong – it was still a very good movie and I enjoyed both the story and the performances. I think what threw me off a little was that the story was told in varying sequences. The movie starts in the middle of the story and then shows how you got there and then jumped back to real-time. The viewer is always conscious of where he is in the story but the whole time I had the feeling that the sequence came into play somehow (as it did in movies like Memento). However, it did not.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Movie title: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Movie description: When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.
Date published: 2009-11-07
Director(s): Sidney Lumet
Actor(s): Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, Marisa Tomei, Aleksa Palladino, Michael Shannon, Amy Ryan, Sarah Livingston, Brían F. O'Byrne, Rosemary Harris, Blaine Horton, Arija Bareikis, Leonardo Cimino, Lee Wilkof, Damon Gupton, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Marcia Jean Kurtz
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
My Review
This is ther rare movie that I seemed to like a little less after I had time to digest it. Don’t get me wrong – it was still a very good movie and I enjoyed both the story and the performances. I think what threw me off a little was that the story was told in varying sequences. The movie starts in the middle of the story and then shows how you got there and then jumped back to real-time. The viewer is always conscious of where he is in the story but the whole time I had the feeling that the sequence came into play somehow (as it did in movies like Memento). However, it did not.
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My Review - 8/10
8/10