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Ed Norton Does Low Rent Prison Thug; Milla Jovovich Does DeNiro

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (25)

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Stone, starring Robert DeNiro, Milla Jovovich, and Edward Norton, is about a convicted arsonist (Norton) who uses his wife (Jovovich) to seduce his parole officer (DeNiro) into securing Norton an early release, only to then play some sort of psychological game with Norton.

Norton can do low-rent prison thug as well as anyone (see American History X), but I’m not really buying into this particular character (at least, based on the trailer), unless the Norton character turns out to be something he’s not: Like an intelligent dude pretending to be a low-rent prison thug. But hey: DeNiro and Jovovich bang uglies, so if that jiggles the rocks, then maybe this is your thing. It does come from John Curran, who directed the exemplary We Don’t Live Here Anymore, so I’m hoping there’s a lot more to this movie than the trailer portends. Of course, the last time that Norton and DeNiro got together, we got a fairly weak and uninspired heist movie called The Score.









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Comments

You had me at Jovovich. Norton's cornrows are really just wrong though.

Posted by: admin at July 22, 2010 10:18 AM

Hell, I'll watch. DeNiro looks good enough for all of them.

Posted by: Cindy at July 22, 2010 10:23 AM

I can't with that hair.

Posted by: Jay at July 22, 2010 10:27 AM

That last frame - the look on Norton's face? I think they're going for the big set up a la Primal Fear. One of those movies that should keep you guessing until the end, and then force you to replay/debate scenes over and over again.

I'm down for this one.

Posted by: malikvlc at July 22, 2010 10:30 AM

Jay, you are one funny dude with the hair stuff.

Posted by: Cindy at July 22, 2010 10:32 AM

What, I'm supposed to look at that mess and not laugh? He doesn't have a grill or a wigger accent, does he? I didn't watch the whole thing and can't turn on the sound here. Maybe he can team up with Sam Rockwell's upcoming silly prisoner for a sequel!

De Niro does look good though.

Posted by: Jay at July 22, 2010 10:40 AM

SPOILER!

unless the Norton character turns out to be something he’s not: Like an intelligent dude pretending to be a low-rent [country bumpkin]
---
Been there, done that.

Posted by: , at July 22, 2010 10:46 AM

DeNiro... bang uglies... jiggles...

Let's all agree to never use those words in the same sentence again.

Posted by: jM at July 22, 2010 10:48 AM

Fuck that hair. Dear Lord, couldn't they trust Norton to come off like enough of a douchebag? Nope, the dumbass voice paired with that stupid swagger wasn't enough. "Let's throw some of those...eh...what do they call 'em? Corn-thingys?" You know, for realism's sake. It's a shame because Norton pulled off the criminal act in "25th Hour" quite well, and he didn't have to resort to a mind-numbing caricature.

The final nail in this film's coffin is the fact that I NEVER want to see or imagine DeNiro having sex with anyone, let alone trashy sex with Jovovich. "Jackie Brown" was a bad enough experience.

Posted by: Kaleena at July 22, 2010 10:55 AM

If you only see one De Niro movie this year:

This, or "Machete"?

*Takes .00000001 second to recall that the "Machete" trailer was the best part of "Predators"*

Fuck this.

P.S.: Is it "Mill-a" or "Meee-a"?

Posted by: , at July 22, 2010 11:06 AM

I'm guessing Norton will turn out to be a zombie and Jovovich gets to destroy him and his zombie friends in a poorly disguised Resident Evil sequel.

Posted by: sars at July 22, 2010 11:10 AM

Just looks stupid to me. Norton in corn rows and with a fucked up accent?
Jovovich playing some 20-something bimbo?

De Niro deserves better.

Posted by: logan at July 22, 2010 11:22 AM

In which I make a possibly spoilerish prediction:

Jovovich's character is the actual arsonist.

Posted by: sistercoyote at July 22, 2010 12:16 PM

Coyote totally beat me to it.

I haven't been this set on being right about a movie's conclusion since I said Johnny Depp was gonna go multiple personalities in Secret Window.

Posted by: D-Day at July 22, 2010 12:45 PM

God, Secret Window was such an awful, awful movie.

This looks ok, I guess. The trailer doesn't really make me want to bite.

Posted by: ninetwenteetoo at July 22, 2010 1:34 PM

Ditto with admin.
Thank goodness they show that the cornrows come out at some point during that movie though.

But yeah, I'll watch anything with Jovovich. Norton and DeNiro are just icing on the cake.

Posted by: gee. ay. at July 22, 2010 2:04 PM

It is stupid hair - I just think you are funny always noticing the dudes' hairs.

Posted by: Cindy at July 22, 2010 2:32 PM

Academy Award Winner Robert DeNiro.
Academy Award Nominee Edward Norton.
Milla Jovovich what was in them Resident Evil moviez.

Posted by: Alex at July 22, 2010 3:50 PM

@D-day: Wait. You mean I actually managed to get in on something first? Usually I'm a day late and a dollar short (actually, more like three weeks late and what money, but)

@Alex: Don't forget The Fifth Element.

Posted by: sistercoyote at July 22, 2010 6:33 PM

Yeah, I really like The Fifth Element. I liked those those grenades with the bits that made them stick to things.

Jean. Baptiste. Emanuel. Zorg.

Posted by: Alex at July 22, 2010 7:35 PM

i will deal with the cornrows to watch milla.

and as much as she is famous for the wretched resident evil movies, i have seen her in plenty of smaller films, and she can act the hell out of anything. its actually surprising if you go into a movie, ready to write her off as a model who jumped to videogame movies.

Posted by: idleprimate at July 22, 2010 8:19 PM

De Niro deserves better.

Posted by: logan at July 22, 2010 11:22 AM

I don't know. Have you seen the crap he's been in lately (i.e., for the past decade?)

Posted by: Uriah Creep at July 22, 2010 9:31 PM

She was in Dazed and Confused, even if it was only for about five minutes, so I'll give her that one. Was there one she was in called 'Ultraviolet' or something? That might have been Kate Beckinsale. All of those future-in your face-neon-werewolves and tits films are all get blurred together.

Posted by: Alex at July 23, 2010 11:00 AM

Every time someone refers to sex as "bumping/banging/slamming/jiggling uglies" I KILL A KITTEN!

Posted by: guy on the internet at July 23, 2010 12:23 PM

STILL MORE pointless, circle-jerk
cultural incest from the talented
LONG rich Ed Norton

EVEN AS

such events as the staggeringly significant,
urgently relevant 60th Anniversary of the
KOREAN WAR are again 'mysteriously overlooked'.

NOT LOOKIN' GOOD AMERICA
------------WAY! NOT LOOKIN' GOOD

Posted by: tiger tim at August 2, 2010 9:54 PM