Good movie
Added 7/2/2009
This is a good movie for anyone who likes a mystery, heist, get-away flick. DeNiro and Norton are great together, though Angela Bassett kinda threw me for a loop (I would've liked to have seen in her in a bigger and more engaging role, rather than a side character). What's best about this film is that it keeps you guessing to the very end. Just when you think it's over and you have it all figured out, something else happens. Probably not the best choice if you just want non-stop action with no plot line. You actually have to pay attention and work for this movie--the planning and precision of the plot (and the plot itself), and the interaction of the characters makes for an enjoyable movie.
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In The Score, Robert DeNiro plays a jazz club owner, Nick, who sides as a safe cracker in Montrial. He is cautious, non-violent, subtle and smart. He wants to retire, and is set up by his fence, Marlon Brando, on one last job. But the job is close to home, something Nick has vowed never to do.
Ed Norton plays the guy who Brando wants Nick to partner with. Young and cocky, he poses as a handicaped, mentally-slow janitor at the customs house the three bandits are trying to rob. There is the expected antaginism between the young buck and the old master, and the job gets more complicated. Eventually, through twists and turns, one outsmarts the other.
This is a great thriller: tight and compact and dead on point. Norton is great as usual, and DeNiro makes a great choice by downplaying the criminal cleches of his character. Nick is sophisticated and complex and not nessasarly motivated by the thrill of the chase that most robbers are.
He runs a successful bussiness and, aside from being a robber, seems like a down to earth guy--not the type that would steel for the rush. It is great to wonder what is actually driving him to take such risks.
The film also gets into some of the technical aspects of safe cracking, and shows how hard it is to be a theif. This adds a lot of texture to The Score.
I do have one gripe with this film: I have Cerebal Palsy, and object to the way Norton portays his disabled alter-ego as the cute, dull muppet that everyone loves and babys. Even in our day and age, the public is still woefully ignorant about physical disabilites; think about racial stereotypes around 1955, and it is comperible. People still equate physical limits with intellectual ones. I am not politcally correct and I don't mind good satire, or even a negative portrayal of a disabled person. But socially, we have not evolved to the point where people have shed their stereotypes of people with disabilities. We can't, yet, afford to have this kind of cleche out there without counterpoint. Plus, it would have been more interesting to have Norton make his disguise persona disabled but smart, and then have him turn the tables at the end.
That said, this is a great film: I own it and am not about to throw it away, and I'd reccomended it on a asthetic basis if not a social one.
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the score
Added 11/21/2008
this movie was good BUT"" they did the dumbest thing i have ever seen. they went to all the trouble of making it suspencful until the end then they really messed up.tward the end of the movie ed norton grabs danny the head janitor and he should of knocked hem out or killed him because now he can identify him.how stupid can you be??'
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The score...
Added 8/9/2008
I love this movie. I must confess that the reason is the ending. It isa plain and simple burgular movie. One plan, one betrayal, one revenge, sweet revenge! Recommend for adults only. There is a bit of foul language. Edward Norton is awesome in this movie.
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Nice Change of Pace
Added 7/2/2008
I watched "The Score" because it was one of Brando's last movies. That was as good a reason as any although Brando was not much of a presence in the film. The two main characters were De Niro and Norton. These two played very well off each other and elevated the movie (along with a great plot and script). There were ample twists and turns that drew me more and more into "The Score". The ending was excellent and my time was well spent. However, the movie had a fault or two. The main one was the romantic aspect. It really didn't fit the film. This is a cerebral action movie with no time for examining a tenuous relationship. Yes, we needed to understand De Niro as a man who was after one last score and with a vision of his future and the partner to share it with. But why give us a partner who seemed so unworthy of that supporting role? Oh well, to each his own. I appreciated a good fast-paced movie that kept me thinking after all the complex dramas I've been watching lately. I liked the Montreal setting too.
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Good movie
Added 7/2/2009
This is a good movie for anyone who likes a mystery, heist, get-away flick. DeNiro and Norton are great together, though Angela Bassett kinda threw me for a loop (I would've liked to have seen in her in a bigger and more engaging role, rather than a side character). What's best about this film is that it keeps you guessing to the very end. Just when you think it's over and you have it all figured out, something else happens. Probably not the best choice if you just want non-stop action with no plot line. You actually have to pay attention and work for this movie--the planning and precision of the plot (and the plot itself), and the interaction of the characters makes for an enjoyable movie.
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In The Score, Robert DeNiro plays a jazz club owner, Nick, who sides as a safe cracker in Montrial. He is cautious, non-violent, subtle and smart. He wants to retire, and is set up by his fence, Marlon Brando, on one last job. But the job is close to home, something Nick has vowed never to do.
Ed Norton plays the guy who Brando wants Nick to partner with. Young and cocky, he poses as a handicaped, mentally-slow janitor at the customs house the three bandits are trying to rob. There is the expected antaginism between the young buck and the old master, and the job gets more complicated. Eventually, through twists and turns, one outsmarts the other.
This is a great thriller: tight and compact and dead on point. Norton is great as usual, and DeNiro makes a great choice by downplaying the criminal cleches of his character. Nick is sophisticated and complex and not nessasarly motivated by the thrill of the chase that most robbers are.
He runs a successful bussiness and, aside from being a robber, seems like a down to earth guy--not the type that would steel for the rush. It is great to wonder what is actually driving him to take such risks.
The film also gets into some of the technical aspects of safe cracking, and shows how hard it is to be a theif. This adds a lot of texture to The Score.
I do have one gripe with this film: I have Cerebal Palsy, and object to the way Norton portays his disabled alter-ego as the cute, dull muppet that everyone loves and babys. Even in our day and age, the public is still woefully ignorant about physical disabilites; think about racial stereotypes around 1955, and it is comperible. People still equate physical limits with intellectual ones. I am not politcally correct and I don't mind good satire, or even a negative portrayal of a disabled person. But socially, we have not evolved to the point where people have shed their stereotypes of people with disabilities. We can't, yet, afford to have this kind of cleche out there without counterpoint. Plus, it would have been more interesting to have Norton make his disguise persona disabled but smart, and then have him turn the tables at the end.
That said, this is a great film: I own it and am not about to throw it away, and I'd reccomended it on a asthetic basis if not a social one.
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the score
Added 11/21/2008
this movie was good BUT"" they did the dumbest thing i have ever seen. they went to all the trouble of making it suspencful until the end then they really messed up.tward the end of the movie ed norton grabs danny the head janitor and he should of knocked hem out or killed him because now he can identify him.how stupid can you be??'
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