Jerky handheld work, jittery jump cuts, seemingly pointless zooms, and anarchic shifts in color palette brings to mind Fincher’s Se7en and Soderbergh’s Traffic.
Jimmy the Saint is a smoothy, a hopeless romantic, and he’s genuine. He’s falling for Dagney (Gabrielle Anwar) which is as inevitable as falling for gravity.
It’s textbook Walken, tailor-made for his blank stares and jaundiced sneers. From taking out mob bosses, to dancing, we adore the man for doing what we can’t.