Reviews

The Way of the Gun is a thoroughly repellent and unpleasant movie. The plot simply depicts how relatively more organized gangsters defeat a pair of small-time outlaws, without the slightest hint of irony, or the smallest of plot twists. The film is, of course, extremely violent, but that is not the problem; it is the way in which the script systematically denies its viewers any possible sympathy or pleasure in the outcome. The good cast and an intriguing situation involving surrogate motherhood are utterly wasted. This is a film to be avoided even by fans of violent films.

Future Murder, although aspiring to be a minimalist psychological thriller in the vein of Blood Simple, is really little more than a long version of a "Tales of the Crypt" episode. What is supposed to be a concluding "twist" becomes painfully obvious less than half the way through. The film is particularly disappointing in that the video box claims it to be among a list of best "independent films."