Console best movie i've ever seen.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

SnoopyStyle It's 1978 in rural Pennsylvania. Brad Whitewood Jr. (Sean Penn) is an angry young man. He lives with his brother Tommy (Chris Penn), his mother, grandma, and her mother's boyfriend for the last few months. They can best be described as white trash. He has an eye for Terry (Mary Stuart Masterson). His absentee father (Christopher Walken) runs a crime family and drops by to give the family money once in awhile. After a fight with his mother's boyfriend, he goes away to his father.The first thing one notices is the great Madonna song. It gives the movie the perfect mood. There is a desolation and a sense of impending doom running all throughout this movie. Its bleak tone fits the based-on-a-true-story movie. The acting is close to perfect. The story doesn't have a good flow but its randomness feels like a true story.

Spikeopath At Close Range is directed by James Foley and written by Elliott Lewitt and Nicholas Kazan. It stars Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson, Chris Penn, Millie Perkins and Eileen Ryan. Music is by Patrick Leonard and Madonna and cinematography is by Juan Ruiz Anchia. Film is an adapted account of the Pennsylvania Johnston gang headed by Bruce Alfred Johnston Sr, who operated during the 60s and 70s.Boy ain't got the life expectancy of a house fly.The real life source of At Close Range is bleak and the makers don't shy from that marker. James Foley's movie is consistently downbeat, even when a snippet of hope rears its head, you sense that it is a waste of time latching onto it. Story is that of harsh family relations, it's often told with bleak passages and is violent, though never in a way that it feels vicarious, these passages are significant and they do not diminish the film's worth. It's an unpleasant movie in a lot of ways, but dovetailing deftly with the criminalisation of one Bradford Whitewood Junior (Sean Penn), a youngster reaching out for some father love from his estranged criminal pappy, Brad Senior (Walken), we get a love story trying to bloom, where the arrogance and naivety of youth hangs heavy in the atmospheric air. There's even a sense of youthful adventure lurking around the edges of the frame.However, this isn't going to end well, it just can't, surely? Brad Junior is an outcast, a misfit, his life is in a rut, but he is instantly enthralled by what his father can give him, he can't see through his rose tinted spectacles what the audience can and the makers hold us in a vice like grip from the beginning to ensure we are there at the end. An instrumental version of Madonna's haunting pop single "Live to Tell" marries up darkly with the mood crafted, as does Anchia's photography, which looks like it has been shot through some MTV Gothic prism. The acting is powerhouse from S. Penn (intense and full of wrought emotion), Walken (utterly dominant as he shifts unerringly between the charm and nasty gears) and Masterson (naively endearing and makes us care for her Terry character). It will be a bit too maudlin for some, while some of the Pennsylvania imagery comes close to negating the pervading sense of sadness. But to my mind this is an excellent slice of neo-noir and worthy of seeking out as long as you aren't looking to be cheered up! 8.5/10

Nebur Oznerol A lot of over acting with very little depth in the characters. A lot of very slowly waste of time and film - time and film that could have been used to put more depth into the characters and make what little action there was interesting. There were many attempts to make a good movie but every time the director and actors almost hit something right - then for some reason, the clip, directions, tempo and or music simply just ruined it. This film should be used at film school as an example of what to do and then what not to do if you do not want to ruin your work. Madonnas music is a strange choice in a movie that makes such an effort to appear - into the smallest detail - to be a study of 1978. Maybe the crew behind the film have tried to stick to much to the original story/events - but sometime you got to let go - this movie just came on my list of bad movies not to be seen again - sad because I believe that very little effort could have made this a great movie

FlashCallahan Based upon the true story of Bruce Johnston Sr., his son, and his brothers.Together, they constituted one of suburban Philadelphia's most notorious crime families during the 1970's.Their criminal activities ranged from burglary, theft... and ultimately, murder.....It's understandable why De Niro turned down the Walken role. It's one of the most darkest characters you may ever meet on screen.Walken is electrifying as the father who knows no bounds when it comes to family and business. At first, he seems like a normal violent criminal.One who would be nice to you, but if you ever crossed him, he wouldn't be happy. But no. This man is a psycho, and knows it, and the fact that he keeps his cool for the majority of the film, and while others are doing his acts of violence for him, makes Walken even more unsettling.The rest of the cast are superb, The brothers Penn, are awesome, and this is the film that really showed the audience that Penn was someone to look out for (after all he'd only just made Shanghai Surprise, so this was a blessing).masterson, puts in her greatest performance, and seeing faces such as Glover, And Sutherland, give the film a very nostalgic feel.It will not be for all tastes, it's a very dark subject matter, and there are some disturbing scenes, and the film never really has a conclusion, which makes it all the more powerful.So all in all, it's a beautifully dark disturbing movie.My only gripe was, at th start of the end credits, we have in the biggest writing possible, Madonna sang a song.Penn, we know you were married to her, we didn't need to hear 'Live to Tell' every ten minutes in the movie...