I am coming to this late, via Netflix. For some reason I clicked on it, and it looked interesting, and what I could find got me curious.
If you've ever seen Shoot 'Em Up, this will seem somewhat familiar in tone and pacing. Here, Meloni's character is like Clive Owen's in that movie, if Clive Owen's character had eaten way too many mushrooms before the action started. The level of violence is roughly the same, as is the level of insanity. Kind of Mary Poppins meets Herschel Gordon Lewis, but with better effects.
The cast is familiar, all standouts. But the revelation, at least to me, is Christopher Meloni. I watched him for years on Law & Order: SVU, and he was terrific, but always playing the same guy. He did a lot with Stabler, but it was always Stabler in the end. Here, he has a boozy and befuddled amorality that is hysterical. You realize that he is so far gone that his decisions will never be the best, or even rational, but you still kind of root for him. It's his very irredeemability that enchants.
Relentless. And funny in the extreme. Highly recommended.
If you've ever seen Shoot 'Em Up, this will seem somewhat familiar in tone and pacing. Here, Meloni's character is like Clive Owen's in that movie, if Clive Owen's character had eaten way too many mushrooms before the action started. The level of violence is roughly the same, as is the level of insanity. Kind of Mary Poppins meets Herschel Gordon Lewis, but with better effects.
The cast is familiar, all standouts. But the revelation, at least to me, is Christopher Meloni. I watched him for years on Law & Order: SVU, and he was terrific, but always playing the same guy. He did a lot with Stabler, but it was always Stabler in the end. Here, he has a boozy and befuddled amorality that is hysterical. You realize that he is so far gone that his decisions will never be the best, or even rational, but you still kind of root for him. It's his very irredeemability that enchants.
Relentless. And funny in the extreme. Highly recommended.
