Prizzi’s Honor [1985]
Pirates are in, and every year the costumes and props get better and more accurate. Appearing the be designed as a hybrid between a scimitar and a saber this pirate sword is a wonderful find. The stainless steel blade of the scimitar measures 36 inches in length and is accented with a deep blood groove, and painted with a faux antiqued blade finish. Intricate symbolized blade collar matches nicely with the tidal-wave themed hand guard, both the blade collar and the guard carry an antiqued brass finish. Brass accents also blend nicely in the handle design which is complimented by a thin leather cord wrapped handle. Measures 39 inches when closed, 36 inches in overall length with a 27.5 inch blade length; 16/64 blade thickness with a mild blade sharpness.
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Prizzi’s Honor [1985]
Customer Review: Bullets are hitting the wrong targets and missing the right ones
When the mafia becomes the argument of an action film and little more it is no longer funny, it is no longer strange, it is no longer fascinating. It is nothing but outlandish and terroristic. It takes all Jack Nicholson can give to make these characters in anyway palatable, and even so. In the Prizzi family all other considerations than the family is outlawed, except maybe for a couple of weeks and the woman concerned by this out-breeding passing passion has to submit and take the color of the wall on which she is being pinned. If she does not then she will be executed and cut off. There is no depth in that film, no subtleties or even subtlety. Get the message, bang it down on the table and then cram it down your brain. Business is business and in-breeding is the rule. I will always wonder why a hit-woman with a reputation of efficiency and effectiveness misses her husband when he intends to kill her though she manages to shoot one bullet first. Suspend your disbelief and incredulity. The cinema is the new church of the visual dominant animal man is. To see is to believe. But at times to believe is easier when you are blind, and probably deaf too. Apart from that it is interesting even if we do spend a little bit too much time in planes going east and planes going west, kind of an airlift between New York, or whatever may titillate you, and Los Angeles, or whatever it takes to please you.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne
Customer Review: First class comedy of bumbling hitmen at work and play.
Gangsters and hitmen make irresistible viewing. Bungling assassins are an even bigger hit. Add to that recipe the class acts of a wry and wily Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner and Angelica Huston and Prizzi’s Honor is a must-see. This 1985 movie stands apart in the genre of death-with-a-giggle and criminals with a conscience, and ranks for murder and mirth with Luc Besson’s “Leon” or Joe Pesci’s more recent “Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag”. This is another classic Nicholson comedy. Put this video on the shelf with “As Good As It Gets” and watch them and laugh over and over. There’s always something fresh or unnoticed in the twists and turns of the plot, the background shots or the dialogue every time you run it. Fine performances, intriguing story and very, very funny.
