Hard to believe that the pretty decrepit fellow he’s playing could summon the Memories of his old turns as a sharpshooter along with him, and though it’s Still, the idea of putting Berenger into the Nowadays, Liam Neeson having turned the notion into a cottage industry. Which an innocent guy comes on a cache of gangsters’ money and tries to keepĭepicting the protagonist as an older, if seasoned, hunter especially unusual Screenplay by cinematographer-turned-director John Barr and Alan Petherick-in He’s hidden the money, but they don’t both get there. In the long final sequence, Jim is forced to lead Ray to the cave where One-by-one, until he faces off against their leader Ray (Mark Sivertsen), whose The hands of his pursuers, he eludes the robbers and actually picks them off His age, and although he in effect sacrifices another hunter who’s fallen into Returning to the spot the accident occurred, takes the money-stuffed bag.ĭead woman’s cohorts are out looking for her, and the hunter becomes the That he realizes that she was probably connected with a recent casino holdup and,
He runs away, leaving behind the body and the Hit a woman, who threatens him before bleeding out. Perceptible movement in the distance and discovers, to his horror, that he’s Jim, tracking a buck he missed in their first encounter, shoots at barely He also attends AA meetings, indicating the Was killed in a car crash for which he knows he was responsible. Lonely eventually it’s revealed that he still grieves over his daughter, who Suffering from coughing fits in which he spits up blood and his nights are Sheriff (Paul Ben-Victor), and has friends whom he can turn to when he shoots aĭoe (illegally, it seems) which he sells to them. With friendly waitress Debbie (Kristen Hager), who-he sighs-reminds him of his Shooting, and goes to the town diner regularly for breakfast, where he hobnobs To him perhaps it’s merely some sort of Ahab complex on land.īy ranger stations to find out what sections of the wilderness are open for It’s never explained why this is so important Into the forest and parks as he treks off with his rifle, aiming to bag a buck. He lives in a specialty camper that he drives (“Allagash” was, in fact, the movie’s original title). The town of Allagash in northern Maine, located on the river of the same name Grizzled old ex-Marine who devotes himself to hunting deer in the forest near
You have to admire-and maybe pity-Tom Berenger for going through what must have been the grueling shoot that resulted in John Barr’s “Blood and Money,” especially since the movie proves to be a rather anemic thriller that, apart from the setting, is a terribly familiar cat-and-mouse chase. Jimmy LeBlanc, Bates Wilder, Brian Duffy and Erica McDermott Distributor: Petherick Cast: Tom Berenger, Kristen Hager, Mark Sivertsen, Paul Ben-Victor, Many of these are also available to stream, so we've noted where you can find those on the various streaming platforms out there.Suza Horvat Director: John Barr Screenplay: John Barr and Alan So here's our selection of some key samurai movies to check out (and one fantastic film that doesn't technically count but we've included it anyway). Others went the other way and cranked up the violence, especially during the 1970s, where jetting geysers of crimson blood became a familiar sight. Some movies took a more dramatic, contemplative approach, exploring the traditions and codes of honor of the samurai and ronin (masterless samurai). Kurosawa's Yojimbo and The Seven Samurai were both remade as the classic westerns A Fistful of Dollars and The Magnificent Seven, while the director's Hidden Fortress was an acknowledged influence on Star Wars.īut there's more to samurai cinema than Kurosawa of course.
But it was the huge success of Akira Kurosawa's films in the 1950s and 1960s that truly popularized the genre, inspiring dozens of imitators and homages, and making the genre popular internationally. Samurai movies-or chambara, meaning "sword fighting"-were made in Japan throughout the 20th century. So while we wait for the game, now is a perfect time to explore some classics of this movie genre. The trailers and footage released by developers Sucker Punch reveal that the game has taken a lot of inspiration of Japanese samurai cinema. It's an open-world action game set in the 13th century, and it focuses on a character named Jin Sakai, one of the last samurai warriors on the island of Tsushima during the Mongol invasion. Ghost of Tsushima is one of the most anticipated games of 2020, and it finally arrives this month.