“Tits and Nazis. What more could you ask for?” Or so said Stephen Lyons, movie maven and WWII fanatic. Reviews of this made it out to be "Showgirls during World War 2", but Verhoeven’s saga is endlessly entertaining and flew by despite the 2 1/2 hour running time. Credit much of this to the lead, Carice van Houten, who completely embodies her character and fully realizes this part in a way few American actresses ever could. She’s beautiful, she’s naked, she seduces Nazis and plants bugs and runs around and spies and shoots people and crawls in shit (literally.) She's fantastic. The movie reminded me a lot of the 60’s-David Lean- Dirty Dozen style epic war movies. It was long and had everything but the kitchen sink. You needed a flow chart to follow the plot, but for the most part… IT TRACKED!! (Amazing!) Verhoeven’s American movies had their heyday, and it seemed as if, after the ho-hum Hollow Man he might be finished. Not so. This was a blast.Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Black Book
“Tits and Nazis. What more could you ask for?” Or so said Stephen Lyons, movie maven and WWII fanatic. Reviews of this made it out to be "Showgirls during World War 2", but Verhoeven’s saga is endlessly entertaining and flew by despite the 2 1/2 hour running time. Credit much of this to the lead, Carice van Houten, who completely embodies her character and fully realizes this part in a way few American actresses ever could. She’s beautiful, she’s naked, she seduces Nazis and plants bugs and runs around and spies and shoots people and crawls in shit (literally.) She's fantastic. The movie reminded me a lot of the 60’s-David Lean- Dirty Dozen style epic war movies. It was long and had everything but the kitchen sink. You needed a flow chart to follow the plot, but for the most part… IT TRACKED!! (Amazing!) Verhoeven’s American movies had their heyday, and it seemed as if, after the ho-hum Hollow Man he might be finished. Not so. This was a blast.
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