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CibbuanoThe Score
January 16th 2007 12:32
'Pedestrian' isn't a word I tend to use all that much in everyday conversation. When I got around to watching 'The Score', a Canadian-set heist film with an impressive cast, I felt I had finally come to that point in my life where I can say "Yes. I can necessarily use the word 'pedestrian' in context". In case you haven't guessed by now, this film is pedestrian.
There's not much to say about the plot. It's dull. Even the standard 'twists' that are part and parcel of the 'heist film' aren't all that surprising/exciting. The only saving grace is the cast, but I'm afraid my opinion of each one is lower for their having agreed to do be in this. I'm thinking it went something like this...
DIRECTOR: Marlon, I'll give you a couple of million to do this film.
MARLON BRANDO: Okay, this should keep me eating for a few more months at least.
DIRECTOR: Bobby! I want you to do this movie, Marlon Brando's in it.
ROBERT DE NIRO: Brando? I get to finally share scenes with one of my idols? Sure I'll be in it.
DIRECTOR: Hey Norton? You wanna do my movie? It's got Brando and De Niro in it.
EDWARD NORTON: Brando and De Niro!? I might be the 'finest actor of my generation' but who cares if the script looks like the product of someone's dunny break! I'll do it! I'll do it!
Okay, so maybe Edward Norton wouldn't use the phrase 'dunny break' but you get the idea. The script is pathetically plain. The direction is boring. The actors seem to just be there for each other's company. It's a shame that Brando is only really featured in the first half hour of the movie and then disappears for almost the rest of it. His scenes with De Niro are great, they both look like they're adlibbing the shit of it and trying not to laugh at each other's improvs. Norton puts a little bit more effort into his role, but I guess he's got his future to think of.
There's not really much else to say about this film. It's the epitome of average. It's not bad or shit or anything, it's just pedestrian.
TRIVIA: Apparently director Frank Oz wasn't able to direct the whole thing (Brando gave him too much of a hard time for being a puppeteer for The Muppets) so Robert De Niro stepped in as a proxy and directed some of it, without credit, via an earpiece that Oz could direct instructions through.
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