Crime thrillers are a dime a dozen. Your friendly neighborhood video store is presently littered with several failed attempts, numerous missed opportunities, and a plethora of misguided knock-offs. Few directors truly understand the genre, while the rest mindlessly assume that anyone who’s seen “Scarface” and “New Jack City” can make their own masterpiece with very little effort on their part. Don’t get me wrong – I’m by no means an expert on the subject, though I’d like to think that I’ve seen enough bad movies to know what works and what doesn’t. This, of course, probably makes me sound like a very sad and lonely individual. Let’s move on, shall we? Thank you. Maybe my endless search for something fresh, new, and creative is why Lexington, Kentucky native Ben Burke’s ambitious crime outing “Nobody in Particular” astounded me on so many levels. Equal...
- 1/20/2011
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
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