暴风雨侵袭中的大西洋城,一场拳赛正在体育馆中预备上演,当地警探瑞克(尼古拉斯·凯奇 Nicolas Cage 饰)在敲诈赌客之余亦不忘为老拳王泰勒打气。这场比赛同时吸引到了国防部长莅临现场,担任部长护卫的海军长官凯文得以同老友瑞克见面,两人相谈甚欢。拳赛开始后,一名红发女子吸引了凯文的注意,另一名银发女子则与部长交头接耳,泰勒中拳倒地的刹那,部长中枪,凶手被凯文当场击毙。瑞克为自责中的凯文出谋划策,滞留全场一万多名观众。从比赛录像中,瑞克发现拳赛有假,以泰勒为突破口,瑞克锁定幕后的几名可疑人员,逼迫真凶出面将同伙灭口。同时银发女子茱莉亚向瑞克透露了事情真相,军火商为盈利在飞弹试验结果中作假,为防止事情败露暗杀了部长。瑞克决定拾起警察的责任,将罪犯绳之以法。
最近城里的屡屡发生珠宝劫案,警察们都束手无策。因为贼人的手法和以前闻名的大盗“黑猫”约翰(加里•格兰特 Cary Grant 饰)如出一辙,警察们找上了正在乡间别墅过着悠闲生活的约翰。约翰当然不会轻易就范,他摆脱了警察之后,开始调查到底是谁用他的手法屡屡作案。毫无头绪的约翰找到了以前的战友巴先生,却被巴先生餐馆里的人视作不速之客。幸好在侍者孚的女儿的帮助下,约翰来到了嘎纳海滩。在保险公司经理的帮助下,约翰展开了他的抓贼行动。
高级职员布鲁诺在一家造纸厂辛勤工作,受到雇主和股东一致称赞。15年后的一天,因工厂外迁,他被解雇。40来岁的布鲁诺自认有技术,年纪也不大,不怕找不到称心工作。然而,3年过去,他仍处于劳务市场门外,顿时醒悟面临着你死我活的无情战场,只有奋力自救才能保持自己和家庭的生活水平,逃脱被淘汰命运。布鲁诺决定杀死自己的竞争者,拼死打赢这场战争……
amily man Bruno has been laid off from his job with a paper company after 15 years faithful service, a victim of profit-motivated ‘efficiency' cuts. Watching a promo video for another company, he's convinced he could do a much better job than the boss, if only there was a vacancy. Still unemployed after two years, as money gets tighter and his patriarchal pride takes a battering, Bruno decides to act. In his determination to regain his rightful place in the paper manufacturing industry, he realises that should an appropriate job become available he'd have a far better chance if he could eliminate the other leading candidates. Literally.
Directed by Costa Gavras (Amen), Jose Garcia displays flawless comic timing in his nuanced performance as Bruno, a man driven to desperate acts by heartless social circumstances.
般奴是一個愛家的男人,他在一家造紙公司忠心地服務了十五年,卻因為公司轉營而成為一切講求經濟效益下的犧牲者。有日,當他看到另一家公司的宣傳短片後,自信地覺得只要有機會,自己比那公司的負責人更勝任。失業兩年仍找不到工作,經濟開始拮据,感到一家之主的尊嚴受損,般奴決定是時候採取行動。他決心要在造紙業取回自己應有的地位。他認為,若有適合的職位空缺出現時,只要他能除去其他有實力的應徵者,實實在在的除去,那麼他的機會會更大。
在導演哥士達.加夫卡的指導下,祖斯.加西亞把般奴這個被無情的商業社會迫至挺而走險的人之心路歷程演繹得淋漓盡致。
Source: The 34th French Cinepanorama, Hong Kong
Duke is a crooked and music-mad police officer. Frankly, he's a really bad cop. He deals recreational drugs and loves to bully the citizens of Los Angeles. Among Duke's partners in the department are a sexually abusive policeman, an extortionist blonde, a family guy with a dubious past, and a one-eyed extremist who dreams of becoming a techno musician. Their once smoothly running corrupt scheme develops a critical flaw when a guy whom Duke shots by accident and stuffs in the trunk of his car suddenly turns out to be alive...
Is it just another evening at the hugely popular Italian restaurant of proprietor and bookmaker Louis Cropa in New York? Anything but as tonight's guests include; a local police detective and his wife specially invited by the owner; on the balcony rival bookmaker gangsters from Queens who want to become partners in the restaurant; in the corner renowned food critic 'the food nymph' is her usual demanding self; and at the bar, seemingly unnoticed, is Ken. As the evening continues enter Duncan, inveterate gambler and sous-chef on-the-line in the frenetic kitchen downstairs, who acts as the catalyst that causes the evening to draw to its inevitable, explosive, deadly conclusion. Written by Mark Smith <msmith@osi.co.uk>