Comments on: The Cooler (2003)

By: arjan

arjan — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:19:33 +0000

Macy, like Philip Seymour Hoffman, never ceases to impress me…

By: reisneus

reisneus — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:43:57 +0000

The dragging is there and it weakens the film. What’s left is still a very well done film. I was a bit uncomfortable with some violent scenes. Major plus we’re the almost tongue-in-cheek absurdistic overdone scenes. At least, I think they we’re meant to be interpreted that way. Regardless … very nice. Baldwin and Macy … a tag-team performance.

By: arjan

arjan — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

saw this one some weeks ago… This definitely is not a Baldwin movie to my humble opinion. He is good – no doubt – but I rather would have seen Macy to get a nomination. But the problem is he would have had to be nominated in the Lead Actor category and he could not have been beaten by all the big names in that category.
One of the flaws of this movie is that once you have found out the nature of the relations the movie kinda starts dragging and gets a bit predictable…