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Stormy Monday

Review by alice ttlg
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Stormy Monday: Review

Sunday 07.30.2006

alice ttlg || 04:01 PM

One of Sean Bean's early films, before he did the Sharpe movies and the Bond movie and Lord of the Rings, I saw him in this, a small cult film-noir playing at the local art house theater, I went back and saw it several more times, not just for Bean, but also for Sting and Tommy Lee Jones and Melanie Griffith and the crazy Polish guys playing Jazz in Newcastle during an "America" celebration week.

It has all the best film-noir elements, brought to life with a brilliant cast, Tommy Lee Jones is perfect as the swaggering loud American out to take over Newcastle by throwing money around. Sting is perfect as the Englishman who is determined to thwart him just because *someone* should. Melanie Griffith looks and acts the part of the blond bimbo just right and Bean is excellent as the nobody trying to skate thru quietly and stay out of trouble.

And that Krakow Jazz Quartet! Arrghhh, awful stuff but a wonderful background noise to the smoothness of Sting and the nightclub atmosphere and they added a nice subplot to the movie.

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