Scaffolding as self-defense.Lovely ladies, double-crosses, bleeding eyeballs, and a very Tarantino-esque conclusion -- Bill Eagles' darkly humorous Beautiful Creatures is exactly the sort of quirky thriller we expect from the Brits after Guy Richie redefined the genre with his 1998 classic Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. And while I'm sure Eagles really hates it when snarky Internet film critics compare his sassy little crime caper to Richie's magnum opus, the similarities between the two film are simply too much to dismiss altogether. Both films feature a bevy of crude, offensive jokes, cruel and unusual villains, eccentric characters, sharp dialogue, and a slew of intertwining subplots that all resolve themselves neatly at the film's blood-spattered conclusion. Of course, Guy Richie didn't have Susan Lynch or the always engaging Rachel Weisz attempting to cover up an accidental murder while dodging mobsters, vengeful ex-boyfriends, the lurid advances of a corrupt detective, now did he? Of course not, and it's these intriguing elements that manage to separate Beautiful Creatures from all of the other Guy Richie clones that flooded the market during the first few years of the new millennium. If you're a sick bastard like yours truly, chances are you'll love it, too.
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For as many friends as I have that love Rachel Weisz, you'd think one of them would have told me about this movie. Thanks for the recommendation. This looks like the perfect way to spend a rainy afternoon.
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