Plot: When Corky is remodeling an apartment, she meets Violet, her next-door neighbor. Violet is in a relationship with a Mafia crook, and she wants out. She butters up to Corky and the two come up with a plan to steal a bunch of money from him and start their lives anew. Their plan doesn't go as smoothly as expected though.
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January 08, 2025
It's been more than two decades since I last watched the Wachowski's first. It's a movie I liked when I hadn't seen too many films yet. I appreciated the single-location stuff and some of the edgier crime scenes, but twenty years later it doesn't feel all that special anymore. It's still a fun film, but nothing more.
The performances are decent (though a tad overdone), the build-up of tension is proper and there are some good scenes scattered throughout. But the Mafia dudes scream too much Scorsese to me and with a runtime of nearly two hours the film is too long. It was a nice enough rewatch, just far from what I'd call a personal favorite these days.
May 22, 2004
[review pending]