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Crazy Six
(1997)
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Director:
Albert Pyun |
COUNTRY
USA |
GENRE
Action/Drama |
NORWEGIAN TITLE
Crazy
Six |
RUNNING
TIME
95
minutes |
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Producer:
Tom Karnowski
Gary Schmoeller |
Screenwriter:
Galen Yuen |
Review
American filmmaker Albert Pyun, notoriously known for putting together
weirdly stylistic and rarely praised B-movies, is the man behind this
record-breaker in horrible production values. The unforgiving lighting,
extreme (and annoyingly grainy) close-ups, bad sound production and the
scenes' complete lack of space make Crazy Six a terrible ordeal
to watch. And that is before even mentioning the plot - if you can spot
it. Amazingly, Pyun narrates through lack of dialogue and logical
cutting; meaning that the story must be deducted from shots of stuff
like brick walls, mist and puppies, as well as music video segments. The
patient viewers will ultimately find that the film is about drug addicts
and mobsters, ostensibly backdropped against the fall of communism. It's
all so low-key that it's barely discernable, but remarkably the ending
turns out to have some sort of soul and purpose. Burt Reynolds is the
only one who cuts through the crap, and steals every scene he's in with
an apt carelessness.
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