Reviews
Snitch (1998)
good accents, the end messed with my mind
I was expecting a good, solid movie since I've been a Denis Leary fan for 8 years now. I wasn't expecting a movie this good.
The accents are great. Leary's from Worcester, Meany only slips out of the accent a few times, and the women are all solid, from the immigrant mother of the first dead guy to the townie girlfriends to the scared yuppie chick.
I didn't expect it to end the way it did, which made this a movie that messed with my mind as much as "The Nephew" did. The ending was built up to and logical, but it's the kind of logic you don't really see until afterwards. "The Nephew isn't a crime movie, but it's got the same big Irish dysfunctional family feel.
The Nephew (1998)
Disturbing and complex
This was the most disturbing movie I saw this summer. The layers keep peeling away as the movie progresses and the characters are trapped in the lives they have despite the shake-up.
The quasi-happy ending is believable, but it pulled back from the message of the rest of the movie, that some things you just can't make repent of and make better. It could have left the characters' souls gutted and maimed, but it stabs towards some kind of healing. The ending wasn't what the movie made me expect.