Paolo Francisco Villanueva

There is an understated, brooding atmosphere to this film, and if you're looking for excitement and big flashy reveals this isn't the film for you. Rather it's a noir-ish slow but methodical burn as we watch the protagonist slow come to the realization of how lavish the lifestyle he desperately wants and just how far of reach it actually is. And the tension mounts as Ripley himself devolves down a path of increasing psychological breakdown amidst ever increasing stakes in a game he can only win with cold calculation and total amoral decision making. I pity the generation that got fed on a steady diet of CGI and formulaic superhero movies, it's unlikely they'll ever appreciate a film like this (or reading most well thougth-out novels for that matter) but there is something to be said for subtlety that this film radiates.