There can’t be many who remember Ron Peck’s clubland spectacular and that’s hardly surprising, it’s atrocious. We can’t know with any certainty how human beings lived in the 1980′s but we can infer that the film’s meandering nature and the am-dram turns would have baffled them.
What, you may ask, is Empire State about? It’s easier to pose the question than to answer it. Ostensibly it’s the crime movie that Robert Altman would have made were he a soak; a character heavy, intersecting plot-fest in which events converge at the titular East End nightclub. Therein, flanked by walls that look like forensic experts have brushed them for traces of ejaculate, each character arc plays out, though not necessarily to any discernable conclusion.
There’s the lonely heart who’s come to meet a blind date, a boy who looks like the Geordie Flash Gordon,...
What, you may ask, is Empire State about? It’s easier to pose the question than to answer it. Ostensibly it’s the crime movie that Robert Altman would have made were he a soak; a character heavy, intersecting plot-fest in which events converge at the titular East End nightclub. Therein, flanked by walls that look like forensic experts have brushed them for traces of ejaculate, each character arc plays out, though not necessarily to any discernable conclusion.
There’s the lonely heart who’s come to meet a blind date, a boy who looks like the Geordie Flash Gordon,...
- 3/15/2011
- by Ed Whitfield
- Obsessed with Film
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