My favorite novel hero, Spenser, brought to life as never before.
Casting for the role of Spenser is staggering difficult. Joe Montegna comes much closer the Rober Eurich, but is still a bit stiff and winds up coming up short. The ONLY Hollywood actor I think might stand a real chance as Spenser would be Bruce Willis, if his ACTING ability were up to snuff.
The direction of the first half is to fast with machine gun like edits that ruin the pacing that makes Parker's Spenser novels so enjoyable.
The second half slows down a bit and is MUCH better, although glosses over some of the more interesting bits in the book about Spenser's recovery. Probably hard to follow if you haven't read the book.
Still, Parker's novels would be a challenge for anyone to adapt to the screen since they depend greatly on his beautiful writing than on on his extremely simple storylines.
Not a bad job overall, but could have been better. 7/10.
Casting for the role of Spenser is staggering difficult. Joe Montegna comes much closer the Rober Eurich, but is still a bit stiff and winds up coming up short. The ONLY Hollywood actor I think might stand a real chance as Spenser would be Bruce Willis, if his ACTING ability were up to snuff.
The direction of the first half is to fast with machine gun like edits that ruin the pacing that makes Parker's Spenser novels so enjoyable.
The second half slows down a bit and is MUCH better, although glosses over some of the more interesting bits in the book about Spenser's recovery. Probably hard to follow if you haven't read the book.
Still, Parker's novels would be a challenge for anyone to adapt to the screen since they depend greatly on his beautiful writing than on on his extremely simple storylines.
Not a bad job overall, but could have been better. 7/10.