But I'm going to have to stop reading those darn netflix synopses. After a nice spoiler-free beginning about private detective Harry Angel being hired to track down a missing singer, this one mentions that "each time Harry makes contact with someone who might know the singer's whereabouts, he or she is killed in a horrible, ritualistic fashion." So I was already suspecting what might not have otherwise crossed my mind. I mean, after reading that, who do YOU figure the killer is? The brazen striking of a match on the first corpse's shoe confirmed it for me.
Even without any help from netflix, I managed to guess the real identity of the character Robert DeNiro was playing fairly early on. It wasn't even his character's name that gave it away (although, in retrospect, the name was a huge clue). It was those too-obvious fingernails. I could swear they were longer and more pointy each time he was on screen. But I will admit (with relief) that I didn't guess everything. I don't think I realized who Johnny Favorite was a minute sooner than Harry Angel realized it.
It's kind of hard to believe Mickey Rourke used to be relatively nice-looking.
I guessed the ending too soon, so his love interest in the movie was completely disturbing. DeNiro is uber creepy in this though and how weird that Rourke wasn't super scary back in the day.
ReplyDeleteYeah--the love interest was squicky enough in retrospect--I'm glad I didn't figure it out as early as you did!
ReplyDeleteDe Niro is awesome.