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Best Laid Plans (1999)
This is a crime movie with quite a complex plot. The opening scene is where we see that Bryce (Josh Brolin) has handcuffed Lissa (Reese Witherspoon) to a pool table. They became aquatinted in a bar earlier in the evening where Bryce was out with an old college friend Nick (Alessandro Nivola).
Much later, Bryce urgently calls Nick for help explaining that he’s had to restrain Lissa. They slept together and she was trying to leave the house to file a rape charge against him. Nick mockingly quotes “I guess a second date is out of the question?”
But all is not what it seems. Nick pretends to kill Lissa and dispose of her body. But little does Bryce know that Nick and Lissa are actually together.
This is the point where we flash back to how Nick meets Lissa, and the build up to why they are forced to come up with their desperate plan.
All of the actors are on top form. You really feel for Nick’s character as he just wants to be rid of his rundown home town and his dead end job. He’s desperate to start a new life but as he quotes “Do you ever feel the world is conspiring against you?”
Josh Brolin does a great job as Bryce. You can’t help but hate him for his “everybody is beneath him” attitude. He loves to use people to his advantage.
There is lots of slick camera work and the colour red is used throughout the movie. I imagine this was to signify the theme of greed.
This movie on release had mixed reviews but I can strongly recommend it to anyone who likes crime/neo noir.
Best Laid Plans (1999)
This is a crime movie with quite a complex plot. The opening scene is where we see that Bryce (Josh Brolin) has handcuffed Lissa (Reese Witherspoon) to a pool table. They became aquatinted in a bar earlier in the evening where Bryce was out with an old college friend Nick (Alessandro Nivola).
Much later, Bryce urgently calls Nick for help explaining that he’s had to restrain Lissa. They slept together and she was trying to leave the house to file a rape charge against him. Nick mockingly quotes “I guess a second date is out of the question?”
But all is not what it seems. Nick pretends to kill Lissa and dispose of her body. But little does Bryce know that Nick and Lissa are actually together.
This is the point where we flash back to how Nick meets Lissa, and the build up to why they are forced to come up with their desperate plan.
All of the actors are on top form. You really feel for Nick’s character as he just wants to be rid of his rundown home town and his dead end job. He’s desperate to start a new life but as he quotes “Do you ever feel the world is conspiring against you?”
Josh Brolin does a great job as Bryce. You can’t help but hate him for his “everybody is beneath him” attitude. He loves to use people to his advantage.
There is lots of slick camera work and the colour red is used throughout the movie. I imagine this was to signify the theme of greed.
This movie on release had mixed reviews but I can strongly recommend it to anyone who likes crime/neo noir.