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Everybody in this movie is a psychopath...


... all of the male characters seem to be cold-blooded murderers who take glee in killing.

Max Ryan's character Dunois is the most obvious, laughing and giggling like a madman when he enters a fight: just watch him giggle when he pulls the knife out during his final scene with Seagal.

The other fella, who shoots the driver of the silver Mercedes, is a cold-hearted maniac too: he has no reason to shoot that man, and his 'payoff' line ('Stupid m/f') is uncalled for and spat out in a very sadistic manner.

Even the 'hero', Jonathan Cold (Seagal) blows up a train station - filled with innocents - without a second thought and, in another scene, he sets a man alight and then GOES OUT OF HIS WAY to approach the man and kick him against the wall. When I first watched this scene I assumed he was kicking the burning man out of his path, as a way of escaping from the flames. But if you watch the sequence closely, he steps towards the man, kicks him, and then quickly moves away from where the man was standing, clearly indicating that Cold has made a detour simply in order to kick a man who is engulfed in flames.

'What does it matter what you say about people?'
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958).

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Maybe there is a bit of over-the-top sadism in some of the characters' make-up, but the quality of characeter development in the film more than makes up for it.

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Oh, definitely - I'm not complaining about the 'over-the-top sadism': I'd rather have that in a film like this than see the characters get all touchy-feely ;)

Thanks for the reply :)

'What does it matter what you say about people?'
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958).

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