David Vining

1 week ago | bleedingfool.com | David Vining

#13 in my ranking of Tony Scott’s filmography. Tony Scott emerges from his commercial period with his first feature film in over a decade, a vampire tale in two parts that’s all style and almost no substance.

1 week ago | bleedingfool.com | David Vining

#14 in my ranking of Tony Scott’s filmography. I’m not entirely sure if this would be a good film from the same script directed by someone else, but I think I can say for sure that Tony Scott was exactly the wrong director to bring this script to screen. The script has its own problems, for sure, but Scott was never a guy for building tension over extended periods of screentime, and that’s exactly what this script needed.

1 week ago | bleedingfool.com | David Vining

#15 in my ranking of Tony Scott’s filmography. Is it even done to talk about Tony Scott’s first film? He made Loving Memory 13 years before The Hunger with BFI money (reportedly some Albert Finney money as well), it was shown at Cannes, and then the younger Scott didn’t direct a film for more than a decade when he came out with fairly different material. At only 50 minutes in length, it’s a curious mood piece and not much else, and I was mostly just kind of bored.

1 week ago | bleedingfool.com | David Vining

#16 in my ranking of Tony Scott’s filmography. This film seems to have some mild positivity amongst Tony Scott fans, the idea that it may not be one of his best films but that it is one of his underappreciated ones. I simply cannot agree. It’s kind of terrible, a mixture of narrative, styles, and concerns that clash horribly all while having no real grasp of how to tell a character-based story of vengeance.

1 week ago | bleedingfool.com | David Vining

#17 in my ranking of Tony Scott’s filmography. This is Tony Scott’s entry into the BMW web series, Beat the Devil, across an entire 2 hours of film. I found it a headache in 8-minute form. I find it just as much a headache at feature length. Bearing the obvious marks of a screenplay straining for any reason to exist, Domino is an overlong drag through stylistic excess with nothing at its core.