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City Of Industry

1997, Movie, R, 97 mins

City Of Industry: Review

CITY OF INDUSTRY
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An ad hoc gang of professional thieves, a jewel heist gone terribly, terribly wrong, betrayal, greed and bloody revenge... no, it's not RESERVOIR DOGS, though that is Harvey Keitel wandering through the ruins of this gritty thriller, gut straining at the fabric of his T-shirt. The four-man crew is made up of brothers Lee (Timothy Hutton) and Roy (Keitel), family man Jorge (Wade Dominguez) and loose cannon Skip (Stephen Dorff), and the plan is simple: Steal $3 million worth of black-market diamonds from a quartet of Russians who won't be in any position to go to the police. The hitch is Skip, who cold-bloodedly kills Lee and Jorge, tries to kill Roy and absconds with the loot. Roy's single-minded quest for vengeance takes up most of the running time, and while it's all photographed in an appropriately grim style, there doesn't seem much point to all the carnage. First-time screenwriter Ken Solarz's script -- which draws heavily on neo-noir traditions -- isn't badly written, just terribly familiar. And the proceedings are undermined by the scruffy, petulant Dorff, who would be better cast as a clueless hustler than a stone killer: He's meant to be a walking time bomb, but all he radiates is sulky attitude. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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