This is a great movie!
They show it once in a while on tv so be on the lookout for it. It is one of Jim Brown's best but the rest of the cast is excellent too.
sharei havent seen it i would love to see it
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MovieChat Forums > The Split (1968) Discussion > This is a great movie!
I didn't find the film to be anything great, but it does boast one terrific line:
Donald Suthernland to Warren Oates: "Calm down, guy. The last man I killed was for $5,000. For $85,000, I'll kill you seventeen times."
Steve V.
A great cast to be sure - and from my favorite era in film - but the last 30 minutes are an indulgent, aimless mess. Should have been so much better.
shareI also liked it. I like heist movies in general and this sounded like a remake of Kubrick's The Killing with a nice cast. It didn't disappoint me, but although the title clearly hints at it, I was a bit disappointed that the main focus wasn't the heist itself so much. They could have made that part of the movie a bit longer IMO.
shareYes, the whole cast is great. For my money, Julie Harris really stands out-completely cast against type, as the ruthless ''brains'' behind the robbery. She is (as usual) teriffic!.
shareJust found my VHS copy of this and watched it last night. I could've tossed the last 20 or so minutes, but thoroughly enjoyed it up to then. It occurred to me there'd be no way they'd be able to pull off a similar heist nowadays because most people would buy their playoff tickets with credit cards or online! And those ticket prices floored me: $5 to $7.50 for a playoff game. Seeing all that cash made me wanna rob somebody!
"May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?"
Not really - the pacing and the presentation of the story were rather clumsy and kind of jarring throughout and on top of that, a lot of the stuff was pretty ridiculous (like the whole notion of McClain staging these "tests" for his prospective accomplices early in the movie - a flimsy excuse to stage a string of action sequences if ever there was one. And the romantic interlude at the red-lensed beach as well as the scene where the bizarrely overacting landlords offs the broad are just plain silly). It's a truly outstanding cast, of course, but none of the big name players is anywhere near their top form - and how could they be, considering the not-so-convinving character writing and the often stilted dialogue they're given (Hackman seems to have gotten a good dry-run for Popeye Doyle, though). I did rate the film 6/10, but that's mainly because I really have a soft spot for these late 60's - early 70's urban crime movies and this little number had these basic vibes I dig, too... and the Quincy Jones score fit like a... well, glove, I guess.
"facts are stupid things" Ronald Reagan
Nice time capsule. Quincy Jones score. But doesn't hold up along side the better heist films.
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