Homicide
by David Mamet
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Actor: J.J. Johnston, Jack Wallace, Joe Mantegna, Vincent Guastaferro, William H. MacyDirector: David Mamet
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
Writer: David Mamet
Producer: Andy Armstrong
Producer: Edward R. Pressman
Producer: Matthew Carlisle
Producer: Michael Hausman
Producer: Ron Rotholz
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Running Time: 102 minutes
Release Date: 1994-06-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Studio: Sony Pictures
VHS Movie Reviews of Homicide
Movie Review: Great movie, but bad DVD
Summary: 1 Stars
If only this movie came on a normal Region coding i could watch it on my DVD player and not my laptop. This is one of Mamets great films only second to "Sparten." A must watch if you can find on normal DVD, but like the orginal "Blade Runner," you may never get it on DVD. later!Movie Review: Disappointing
Summary: 3 Stars
I saw this movie listed on a list of the greatest 1000 movies ever made. I saw it available at a video store and I rented it. I must confess, I was disappointed. I saw possibilities as I watched the movie unfold but, it seemed to me, every possiblity was missed.
I felt the biggest missed opportunity was when the main character, Detective Bobby Gold, discovers that there's more to a murder/robbery than meets the eye. An elderly Jewish woman is found dead in her candy store in a poor part of town. As Detective Gold investigates further, he finds the elderly woman is well-connected here and abroad. I felt the beginnings of a great mystery. I could see the gradual revealing of some sort of international cabal that involved certain high-placed political figures. Unfortunately, the mystery evolves into something so complex and surreal that I lost my interest. From there to the end of the movie I kept waiting for something to make sense. the longer I waited the more I realized that it wasn't going to happen.
I noticed that the acting in "Homicide" is a bit different. The actors seem to speak in a different manner coming across like something out of "Guys and Dolls" if you take away the accents and replace it with profanity. At times I appreciated the style but it gradually drifted in to the same surreal atmosphere as the plot.
A major aspect of this movie, as I understood it, had to do with what it means to be a Jew. Frankly, I thought "The Jazz Singer" handled the matter a lot better (but, then, I am not a Jew). Some people probably followed this and other aspects of the movie and liked where it led them. I'm still trying to figure out where it all led me as well as how to avoid ending up there again.
Movie Review: Dialogue, Plot, Realism -- Where's the DVD??
Summary: 5 Stars
I too, like many of the other reviewers, am tired of viewing my old and worn VHS version of this movie. This is one of a very few movies I absolutely MUST have in DVD.
A 1991 film, "Homicide" opened the careers of two very important stars: William H. Macy, and Ving Rhames. A very under-rated and seldom-seen Joe Mantegna stars as Detective Bobby Gold, who works for an unstated northeastern police department that looks every bit like Baltimore PD.
The department is after the killer of two cops. The FBI attempts to arrest the suspected killer (in a wonderfully understated, quiet but efficient initial scene) but manages to let him vanish. The heat is on the mayor's office and politics rage. Det. Gold is called a "kike" by one of the mayor's black handlers. In the process of tracking down the cops' killer, Gold manages to get himself involved in the homicide of an older Jewish woman killed in her store. Was she the target of everyday thugs, or the mark of someone continuing the Jewish pogrom?
"We'll bust this big criminal; we'll swagger around." And William H. Macy gives an award winning smile.
From there, all is not as it seems. When Det. Gold begins to investigate all that he believes, he discovers, at the end, that all is, in fact, nothing but irony.
And because I am in law enforcement I know, emphatically, that that which you thought was one thing may, in fact, be clearly another. Something that you never anticipated -- but your mind must be open to receive -- has come to fruition.
This movie is ALL about irony. I'll not be the spoiler. But it is also about dialogue (any Mamet movie is not unlike any Howard Hawks movie -- THAT distinctive a discernation about dialogue!).
And the realization that all is not what it seems.
Because I have seen so many, the death scene of William H. Macy particularly strikes home with me. It is clear, it is abrupt, it is disjointed. "Remember the time?"
I bought this VHS tape in 1992 from Tower, as it was marked $92.95. A wonderful movie then and now.
Movie Review: MEANT TO RATE THIS 2 STARS BUT HIT WRONG BUTTON
Summary: 4 Stars
I expected this film to be so much more than it was. I saw it first on Bravo with commercials, and thought perhaps the part that explained why the main character hated his own people had been cut. Then I saw the film again without commercials on IFC, and it turned out that the film NEVER revealed why Bobby Gold began the story as an anti-Semitic Jew. Sorry, but I could never get past that, and therefore nothing in the story seemed logical, realistic, or focused. IMHO a pointless exercise in wasting talent, time, and money.Movie Review: What are they waiting for the DVD release? please!
Summary: 5 Stars
It is the story of a little man . He thinks he is an criminal inspector . he believes that he will be able to mock some Federal agents but : wrong choice! The life has by far a better imagination than him and he will experiment a real twist of fate . He has to find the murder of an old Jewish lady owner of a confectionery in a black ghetto . He does not know but this investigation will involve him .
There is a bit influence of Spike Lee works ; a crude reflection about the anti-Semitism in the black ghettos .
Mamet handles the slenderness with reason , he tries to establish a game between families .
You know as well as me , Mamet is an outstanding film maker that it will never disillusion you because he always a card under the sleeve.
Haunting and penetrating film .
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