Thursday, July 23, 2009

BD capsule review: Bound

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The first and by far the best film by Andy and Larry Wachowski, Bound offers up the potent combination of a steamy Sapphic romance and a sharp deconstruction of gangster movie conventions. When it was originally released in 1996, it was all but ignored, probably because it was perceived primarily as sleazy girl-on-girl exploitation (which is rather strange, as I would have assumed this would have been a lucrative endorsement for many). It's a shame, because the audiences that later flocked to The Matrix ultimately missed out on the Wachowskis' masterpiece and one of the best gangster movies of the 90s - a supremely entertaining and in many ways novel take on a well-worn genre. Luckily, the DVD and now Blu-ray markets have provided viewers with an opportunity to (re-)discover this underrated, under-seen gem.

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