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Berlin Review: 'A Single Shot' With Sam Rockwell Unravels From A Tight Premise Into A Downbeat, Messy Misfire
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- February 9, 2013 1:36 PM
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The main narrative surrounding the evolution of David M. Rosenthal’s “A Single Shot,” which premieres at the Berlin Film Festival today, has been about the longer-than-usual casting merry-go-round -- since 2009 a roster of talent as long as your arm has signed up then signed out of the film. However the fear that, as the accepted wisdom goes, there must be something fundamentally wrong with a project that takes this long to put together was somewhat mitigated by the kind of names who kept on stepping up: as worrying as it might be to lose the likes of (pre-breakout) Michael Fassbender, Alessandro Nivola, Forest Whitaker or Juliette Lewis, it doesn’t sting so hard when you get Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, Jeffrey Wright and Jason Isaacs to show up instead -- all actors we admire.
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Not sure if you guys noticed, but Filmstage ripped this feature off lock, stock and barrel. Not the
I never implied that I had seen it. I merely reiterated Yer's statement on how it LOOKED.
But you haven't actually seen the fucking film, dbag.
Thanks for pointing out this error - text has been corrected.
whats happened to sherlock holmes 3 if guy ritchie is directing this film
Since you haven't seen it (as usual) you're talking out your ass again, Alan.
What a tease.
Just wow! Thanks for this amazing review, really because now I wanna see it even more! Kiang, I love
Top five replacements: 1: RDJ 2: Denzel 3: Leo 4: Johnny Depp 5: Brad Pitt
someone needs to edit this.