Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Lambysalamby Cult is a word that's being thrown around these days rather hastily for violent movies like this, the same goes for silly Tarantino comparison's, when such films are not even close... It can be quite annoying and foolishly I believed the hype for this.. Perhaps it's my love for French film...The biggest problem with this movie is the characters. They are all deplorable. Not one character has a redeemable, likable feature, they are actually all really annoying in fact, even down to their wardrobe. Even Vincent Cassel's characters implied charisma just isn't there.. It's almost laughable.Beyond annoying characters you just have a boring movie and one that's far too long. It could have been far shorter. I'm glad it's over.Overall opinion: Bottom of the barrel. Stay away from it! If you wanna see another movie with Vincent Cassel and Monica Belluci watch L'appartement, it will be a much more valuable 2 hours of your life.In comparison, other duds I rated 3/10: Barb Wire Judge Dredd (1995) Dude Where's my car?

PoppyTransfusion This film has me reaching for the sorts of superlatives that make me cringe such as cracking, awesome and uber-cool.The opening credits feature a CGI Doberman pointing the barrel of a gun at the audience before peeing over the credits on screen. This type of slightly sick and perverse humour pervades the film that starts with a most surreal christening at which the young Dobermann aka Yann (Cassel) gets his first gun and acquires his canine moniker. From here we proceed to modern-day Dobermann holding up a security van using the gun that was his christening gift. The main characters, criminals and cops are all introduced to the audience within the first 30 minutes and thereafter the film builds to a crazy, chaotic and violent conclusion as the two clash in the aptly named nightclub - Joe Hell. The clash when it comes is graphic and sadistic and one merry ride to hell as a demented cop named Cristini (whose name swipes at religion and is brilliantly played by Karyo) breaks all the rules and ethics to nail Dobermann. He gets his comeuppance when Dobermann, with his wife Nat's (Bellucci) assistance, rips half his face off by running it along the road in a moving car. This scene is electrifying partly because of the way the film builds to the confrontation between the two characters. Some complain the film lacks plot; the only plot is their confrontation and the rest of the film is context to this final bloody scene of vengeance.The film reminded me of quite a few other heist films such as Heat and Reservoir Dogs although the characters in Dobermann are a more motley crew. But unlike other films it never takes itself seriously and is completely irreverent and disrespectful towards the establishment in general and the police and religion in particular. The director Kounen has Manu (Duris) wipe his ass with a page from a respected French cinema magazine whilst the Abbot (my favourite character, played by Bettenfeld) continually makes religious pronouncements with some of the best lines. After killing one cop with a grenade in a motorcycle helmet Abbot announces he has joined 'the paradise of headless man'.The film also has a great dance/ambient soundtrack provided by Schyzomaniac that pulses throughout the film and includes The Prodigy's Voodoo People. This film surely features one of Vincent Cassel's most charismatic turns as leader of the pack; *the* Dobermann.

JoeytheBrit Well, this is different: a super-charged, super-violent French crime thriller that starts off with an imaginatively devised shot of the profile of a dog looking at the sky mirrored by the spire of the church he is sitting outside, and proceeds to go off on a truly bizarre journey, the detail of which admirably disguises the essentially routine storyline.Vincent Cassel plays Doberman, a career criminal, who leads a weird band of villains and has a deaf girlfriend. He invests the role with a suitable coolness that acts as a counterpoint to the manic behaviour of both his team and the psychopathically sadistic police officer determined to catch him after he slips through the police's hands during a hold-up, then makes fools of them all by nipping back to collect a couple of accomplices he left behind. Making good their escape necessitates the gang wedging a live grenade in the helmet of a pursuing motorbike cop in pursuit.It would be easy to write this off as some kind of quasi Tarantino-wannabe with a comic slant (and there are some sublimely funny moments) but Doberman is much better than that. Doberman takes the basic premise of early Tarantino and gives it a perversely comic twist that somehow hits more often than it misses. The director throws every trick he knows at the screen and, for the most part (apart from an irritating split-screen sequence) he does well. As long as you're not in the mood for something mellow you should be entertained by the endlessly inventive ways in which the tale unfolds.

dbborroughs The plot is simple, Dobermann and band of bank robbers are hunted by the police as they plan and execute a robbery. What they don't count on is that a crazed policeman is on their tail and will stop at nothing to stop them. The dialog is witty, the film making flashy, and the violence is brutal. So why don't I like this more? Lets face it this film exists simply to look cool and so the film makers could shoot things. The film looks great and the gunfights and the action sequences are mind blowing, the problem is that despite some witty dialog the film is rather dull when things aren't being blown up. I got to a point where I was reaching for the remote to get to speed to the next bit of action. Thats not a good sign.Should you see this movie? If you like big action sequences with lots of guns blazing, absolutely. You might also want to check this out to see one of the great screen villains as represented by the crazed cop who is hunting the gang. He will stop at nothing to get his man including giving a grenade to a baby.6 out of 10, great action and style takes the place of plot and character development.