Aug 5, 2007, 06:11 PM
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Ultimatum was indeed quite good, a pleasant surprise really. I was impressed at many points throughout: the lack of spoon-feeding (given the many opportunities a lesser director would've jammed down your throat, "silent (sans dialogue)" sequences, action sequences as musical numbers, long takes, editing, poetry (Nicky's haircut mirror scene, the final shot).
You'd think though after a century of filmmaking they'd figure out how to make flashbacks more presentable than green filters + blur effect + echo-ey voices. Minor quip, along with Cooper + Cox did more with their white-collar government baddies than Strathairn (the guy is normally superb).
The more I reminisce the more I'm impressed with it more than I'd like to admit, I think. Based strictly on editing, the extent to which it uses the Kuleshov effect to maximum effect is nothing sort of a triumph.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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