Boiling Point

Saban Films | Release Date: November 19, 2021

7.0	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 29 Ratings

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Mauro_LanariMar 26, 2023

(Mauro Lanari)
Alcoholic, cocaine addict, separated from his wife, in debt, latecomer, sleepless, fresh from move: all the imaginable bad luck. Starting from these premises, things could only end badly for him regardless of the type of work.(Mauro Lanari)
Alcoholic, cocaine addict, separated from his wife, in debt, latecomer, sleepless, fresh from move: all the imaginable bad luck. Starting from these premises, things could only end badly for him regardless of the type of work. So the now worn-out location of the restaurant is completely superfluous. Authors like Ozu, Bresson, the Tati of "Playtime" ['67] would have made the breaking/collapse/boiling point more dramatic with the still, static, fixed camera to impotently shot the staging of impotence. Barantini makes the opposite choice: convulsive tale and uninterrupted steadicam for 86 minutes out of 92. Raffaele Meale writes that the director "seems to care more about the rhythm and spatiality to be managed than the psychologies of his characters". "Characters"? Unjustified accumulation of Fantozzian clichés. "There is a sense of dissatisfaction, and also emptiness. An exercise in style, not much more." Tzk: "a reflection on the one-shot film in today's cinema, after Hitchcock, Bazin, Metz" (Alessio Baronci). Wow.… Expand

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bumbacladJun 25, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Ever wanted to feel like you worked an entire shift at a restaurant in an hour and a half? This movie recreates that feeling perfectly and there's a shyamalan twist at the end.

*vvv*SPOILER*vvv*

The shyamalan twist is the bottle of water, that he drinks out of the whole movie, was vodka the whole time!… Expand

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