This was one confusing story, wasn't it? Not so much at surface level, but when you really think about it, the story seems to come apart. For example, where was the money coming from that Gordon (Samuel L. Jackson) wanted to launder? Surely not his bagel, oops..., bialy shop. Well then, was it the hit man money Reggie was earning from Andrei Gorlich (Nikolai Tsankov) and his son Anton (Tom Pecinka)? If so, why did the father/son team need a middleman like Gordon? And really, were the Gorlich's having that many people assassinated that required Reggie to have it laundered through Patrice's (Uma Thurman) Program Gallery. The checks were in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, did that many high value targets exist in one place at one time that needed rubbing out?
I think what started out as a good idea for a script got lost along the way and got muddled in the translation. As gallery owner Patrice, Uma Thurman seemed to mug a lot with her facial expressions which I thought brought down her character. Folks like 'The Kimono' (Debi Mazar), Anika (Dree Hemingway), and the Galvinson's (Larry Pine, Candy Buckley) epitomized the intellectual snobbery one would expect to come with the territory of the big money art scene. When the audience cheered as Reggie strangled Roman Rashnikov (Alexander Sokovikov ) I thought to myself, what's wrong with these people? Don't they realize they're watching a murder in progress?
I guess this was meant to be a stab at dark comedy, but the whole time I couldn't make sense of it. It just didn't feel right with pieces that didn't seem to fit together properly. At least I was able to write this whole review without using the term 'Bagman'.
Who was Black Dreidle?
I think what started out as a good idea for a script got lost along the way and got muddled in the translation. As gallery owner Patrice, Uma Thurman seemed to mug a lot with her facial expressions which I thought brought down her character. Folks like 'The Kimono' (Debi Mazar), Anika (Dree Hemingway), and the Galvinson's (Larry Pine, Candy Buckley) epitomized the intellectual snobbery one would expect to come with the territory of the big money art scene. When the audience cheered as Reggie strangled Roman Rashnikov (Alexander Sokovikov ) I thought to myself, what's wrong with these people? Don't they realize they're watching a murder in progress?
I guess this was meant to be a stab at dark comedy, but the whole time I couldn't make sense of it. It just didn't feel right with pieces that didn't seem to fit together properly. At least I was able to write this whole review without using the term 'Bagman'.
Who was Black Dreidle?