: Summer of Sam
Author: Victor Colicchio and Michael Imperioli
Director: Spike Lee
I wasn’t sure if this was a thriller or what, but it turned out to be a what. The “Son of Sam” killings in New York in the 1970’s are the backdrop for the lives of a number of distasteful and unlikable characters (some played by big stars). I found the mystery over the killer much more interesting than the lives of these pathetic characters. While there were attempts to make them human and likable, they didn’t completely succeed, leaving us uneasy no matter what happens to them (good or bad). The ending’s predictable, and the whole thing’s about an hour too long. Some of the relationships in the film are completely incomprehensible. This is a good rough draft a movie — a couple more rewrites and it might have had something.
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