Blood and Wine (1997)
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 31
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 12
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Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 3
No consensus yet.
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Wine merchant Alex Gates seems to have it all: a fancy shop, a beautiful wife, Suzanne, a sexy Latin mistress, Gabriella, and a hot car. He enjoys the best vintages of the goods he sells. In truth, Alex Gates' finances are stretched to the limit, his marriage is in a shambles and his relationship with his stepson Jason is toxic. Alex's business caters to a wealthy clientele, whose riches prove all too seductive: particularly a certain $1 million diamond necklace. Alex joins with Victor Spanksy,
Feb 21, 1997 Wide
Feb 6, 2006
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All Critics (31) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (12) | DVD (5)
An amusingly caustic, straight-up serving of film noir staples spiced with star charisma.
Top CriticAn engrossing thriller - and one sparkling with intelligence, with the surprising twists grounded in credible human behaviour.
When Bob Rafelson decides to get nasty, he really means it.
It's a morality play, really, but dripping with humid sex and violence.
The movie's own payoff is compelling enough, but the project has a weightless feel that limits involvement. Better you give it an hour-and-a-half on video someday, surrounded by wine and snacks.
Rafelson is so true to his sour vision of crime, deception and a rottenness at the core of our natures -- he's as cheerful as a Jim Thompson potboiler -- that we never get a chance to like or care about his characters.
As lifeless as a flat wine.
A noir thriller about greed.
Rafelson shows that he can't handle noir themes as easily as the real masters of the genre.
Bob Rafelson sends this movie out like a hissing flare from the island of the nearly-forgotten, and if justice had prevailed, moviegoers would have answered the call.
The director benefits from a powerhouse duo in Nicholson and Caine. It's like watching two cats fight for the same mouse, because both characters are corrupted to the bone.
Screenwriters Nick Villiers, Alison Cross, and Rafelson were trying too hard.
A slowly-plotted, mostly uninvolving modern-day Miami film noir...
It might have helped a bit if there had been a hero worth rooting for.
This was a good role for Nicholson and a better one for Caine.
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