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2.5/4
Unique to say the least.
Drive-In Massacre - wrote on 06/22/2011
The 2005 black-comedy/thriller, Edmond is a...unique film to say the least. Directed by Stuart Gordon of Re-Animator and From Beyond fame and written by David Mamet, the viewer gets a movie that is a mix of many very different elements that make up a movie that is almost unlike anything else.
The fact that it was written by the brilliant Mamet was enough for me to want to check it out, and the fact that Stuart Gordon was directing along with an actor like William H. Macy as the title character, I had to check it out, and although the screenplay was originally written in the early-1980s, I think this film is still ahead of its time and many people, including myself, don't know what to think about it. Like all of his work, the dialogue in the movie is some of the most brilliant and …
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1/4
A steaming pile of Edmond
lpd381 - wrote on 01/04/2011
What a steaming pile of shit this was. I thought thrillers were supposed to be thrilling but this was just boring. The only thing that remotely saves this film is the acting done by William H Macey but there is only so much an actor can do with bad writing. Putting Mena Suvari, Denise Richards, Bokeem Woodbine and Julia Stiles names on the cover of this film is also very miss-leading as they are hardly in it. Each actress only get a few minutes of screen time this is forgotten by the movie. The movie also just kind of leaves out a huge plot point in how Edmond is caught for the murder. Seriously how did they know. I know his DNA was on her but that takes longer then a coupke hours to match up. He didn't know the girl for more then a couple hours and yet they tied him to her? Also if they …
