Aspire to make a difference." One of his most famous, yet simultaneously underrated, films is primed for a resurgence thanks to Netflix. Overall, though, he lives by the mantra, "Don't aspire to make a living.
Funnily enough, considering his role in "The Bone Collector," the beloved star wishes he hadn't said no when originally offered "Se7en." Likewise, "Michael Clayton," which ended up featuring George Clooney in the lead role, was another part Washington wishes he'd accepted. After so long in the industry, it's understandable the Oscar-winner has a few duds in his back catalog.Īs Washington acknowledged in an interview with GQ, there's very little he regrets about his career. As Vulture notes, ill-fated franchise starters like "The Bone Collector," a "Se7en" wannabe with a ludicrous hook, chafe against something like "Training Day," where the esteemed actor injects nuance into an otherwise rote cop archetype, or "Malcolm X," in which Washington gives a stirring performance as the titular civil rights legend. The film flounders in its conclusion, though a fun, shouty cover of Slade’s “Merry Xmas Everybody” over the final shot and end credits means the exit doesn’t occur on an entirely down note.Denzel Washington is one of our greatest living actors, but he's endured more than his fair share of flops over the years. The macabre glee of the preceding seventy minutes is lost as one last fool comes into play, greedily seeking the 1.7 million kroner bounty from a sporting pool win, and some late attempts at ambiguity regarding Oscar’s account of events fall flat. It is here where Jackpot leans into generic thriller reveal territory with only one really notable comedic moment that has much impact. political Land 1997 A Map of the World 1999 K - PAX 2001 Maid in Manhattan 2002 The Manchurian. It is a political thriller about the son of a prominent U.S. That is until the final fifteen minutes of the film, when Oscar’s flashback ends with him being crushed by a collapsing, bullet-ridden stripper, and everything needs to be wrapped up. 1962 film starring Frank Sinatra The Manchurian Candidate 2004 film the remake of the 1962 version starring Denzel Washington Manchurian disambiguation The Manchurian Candidate is a novel by Richard Condon, first published in 1959. These ideas are never explored in an especially deep fashion, and this is a film of admittedly hollow, dark pleasures rife with stereotype, but the execution is so entertaining that it’s forgivable. Another running comedic theme is the opportunism present throughout the town, not just with the major players but also one-scene characters like a farmer asking for monetary compensation when human remains are found in her pigs’ pen. This is not to suggest the framing device has no worth, because the interrogation scenes have a deliciously sarcastic bastard in the form of Henrik Melstad’s detective, though further humour beyond his quips comes from the narrative’s ridiculing of both his tough posturing and that of others elsewhere in the film: for all his talk, the harshest thing the detective actually does to Oscar is repeatedly refuse him a soda to quench his thirst. Since this character, Oscar (a brilliantly bemused Kyrre Hellum), is the sympathetic innocent of sorts amidst a group otherwise made up of violence-prone ex-cons, his established survival means the various threats upon his life in the flashbacks hold little weight. A big factor for this is the film’s framing device, which involves a sole crime-scene survivor and suspect, still bloodied, regaling the events that have got him to that interrogation room.
A particular body disposal sequence and the winter setting initiate Fargo comparisons specifically, though Jackpot’s attempts at tension never reach the levels that duo’s comedic thrillers still tend to possess. It’s this quality, and the general idiocy of the film’s protagonists, that brings to mind certain Ealing comedies and the Coen brothers. Magnus Marten’s film’s greatest strength is its frequently funny blend of dry humour with dark, violent comedy of a cartoonish nature.
Written for the screen and directed by Magnus Martensįollowing Headhunters, Jackpot is the second of an increasing list of Jo Nesbø adaptations for the big screen, and is similarly concerned with a hapless individual thrown into increasingly violent and absurd predicaments.
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