Time-consuming dust. . Wayne Kramer is a director best known for the movie Running Without Looking Back, starring Paul Walker. But less known is his second feature film, The Cooler, although it was the starting point of his future career. The film was nominated for several prestigious awards, and the performers of the main roles were nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
For what I liked this inconspicuous domestic viewer film, it's for the atmosphere. The spirit of Vegas could be felt even in the middle of the non-black earth lands of Russia. It is foolish even to draw analogies with the famous Scorsese tape, but there is a zest in The Cooler. Under the viscous ornament of Saxons, through the neon light from the hearts pours love, and from the machines coins. And it's here in this den of human vices that the real feelings are buried under gallons of whiskey and cubic meters of nicotine smoke. They exchanged water for cheap coffee and air for tables of green cloth.
And in the midst of all the legal lawlessness stands the hero of Alec Baldwin - Shelley. Strong, strong-willed, unquestioning - spent his whole life running a casino, and now he's too old for all this crap. Life has changed, people have changed, and he doesn’t want to use it. As the last rock and roller, he burns through the remnants of former luxury, expelling and beating tourists on the cheapest vouchers who decided to cheat the casino. While praising the old methods, he fails to notice how he himself becomes a victim of them. Friends turned away, young managers bend the whole system to themselves. An old lion, slaughtered by a young man, breaks into a flock, but he is powerless as Shelley is powerless before the end of his era.
The amazing role of Alec Baldwin. At first refused because of the cruel image of Shelley, he heeded the advice of the agent and performed his part brilliantly. What is the scene when he hits a pregnant girl with his foot in the stomach, or when in a fit of impotence he pushes the waitress on the mirror, in the fragments of which he fears who he has become? Dozens of small nuances make his role unforgettable.
Bed scenes are filmed very exciting and natural. And all this under the subtle Saxon Mark Isham, the sexy coolness filling the streets, lost in time, Las Vegas.
Almost unknown in our country, and even with a strange translation of the name "Brake", not at all like the name says. A beautiful film for a sultry evening, in the company of wonderful actors, under the soft jazz of the past era, carried away by the dust of Shangri-La.
8 out of 10