June 18th, 2015

Starting this week, we here at SUY Studios thought it might be fun to get on the Throwback Thursday kick. So to start things off, we're headin back about two years to revisit Mike DiGioia's Review of the film 'CHARLEY VARRICK' from 1973.

"I can rattle off a myriad of lost crime and action gems from the late sixties to the early eighties. Interestingly enough, though, most action films within that decade and a half weren’t necessarily full-on action films, but more so crime films grounded in a much more plausible reality, with the addition of brilliant, effective action beats implemented within the story. Films like Point Blank, Bullitt, Dirty Harry, The Seven-Ups, The French Connection I and II, The Outfit, and Thief come to mind, and that’s only a few. It wasn’t until the approach of the mid eighties when we started to see some of the more extravagant, over-blown, Stallone/Schwarzenegger/Lundgren/Norris/Van Damme high-end cinematic carnage, not to mention the even more excessive, yet wonderfully choreographed bullet-ridden mayhem John Woo introduced to us, and even he’s a director who’s been heavily influenced by the nuances of much grittier, intricate plot structures that directors like Jean-Pierre Melville created in his films, like Le Samourai from 1967 and Le Cercle Rouge from 1970, to name a couple."

You can read the Entire Review HERE!

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By Michael J. Foy