Able Danger

American Combatant 09/18/2008 7:24:00 AM

a few more reviews ABLE DANGER - The Critics "NOIR ON ACID" Jeannette Catsoulis NY TIMES http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/movies/11able.html "Able Danger is a slick debut feature. An update of The Parallax View. A cinematic x-ray of paranoid mindset. In the long shadow of noir pastiche, complete with a femme-fatale turn by Elina L�sohn" FILM COMMENT MAGAZINE "Paul Krik's stylish, darkly comic conspiracy thriller takes its title from a classified military program alleged to have identified four 9/11 hijackers prior to the terrorist attacks, and borrows its gleaming B&W look from THE MALTESE FALCON. The film is gorgeously photographed, briskly paced and strikingly handsome despite an indie-sized budget." Ken Fox TV GUIDE http://movies.tvguide.com/able-danger/review/295289 "Surprisingly entertaining zero-budget film noir that effectively mixes pseudo-Hitchcockian theatrics with a hefty dose of contemporary lefty paranoia." NEW YORK MAGAZINE *Critic's Pick* Sara Cardace http://nymag.com/listings/movie/able-danger/ "Krik uses flashes of dark comedy, an affection for the film noir genre and the perfect eyebrow-half-cocked attitude towards his subject matter to create a fast-paced and entertaining story... With its black-and-white cinematography and visual imagination (the film mixes in color dream sequences and text-overwritten surveillance footage)... Krik's low-fi riff on the conspiracy thriller has a charm all its own" Scott Macaulay FILMMAKER MAGAZINE http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/blog/2008/02/rotterdam-able-danger.php "Krik references film noir, rustling up some heavies and hardboiled patter here and there. Ironically, the connection is intriguing, given the wartime stew of anxieties that originally fostered the movies that came to be known as noir; Krik�s two main riffstones come from either end of the lineage, The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Kiss Me Deadly (1955)." Nicolas Rapoid THE L MAGAZINE http://thelmagazine.com/print.cfm?content_id=4462 "Mildly surreal, mostly black-and-white homage to film noir, set in the built-in ironic enclave of hipster Brooklyn. Able Danger is a smart and all-too-conceivable conspiracy thriller that raises serious questions in less-than-serious ways. Do we really think we know the entire truth behind 9/11? If so, the movie shows a bridge it might want to sell youŠ" Frank Lovece THE FILM JOURNAL http://www.filmjournal.com/filmjournal/reviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_conte nt_id=1003849095 "Paul Krik�s low-budget indie thriller Able Danger is nicely shot in tinted b&w hi-def video, slickly mixed, scored and edited almost to the point of being indistinguishable from this or that Bruckheimer TV show. And Krik is a keen film student: Many of the film�s images recall Welles, Lang, Fuller, Mann, Kubrick, Frankenheimer� you name it." Steven Boone SPOUT http://blog.spout.com/2008/09/12/911-conspiracy-movie-for-hi/ "Shot in a high contrast black-and-white that milks maximum atmospheric effect out of its wide, busy compositions and chiaroscuro lighting..." Brandon Harris HAMMER TO NAIL http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=363 "Shot in black and white and reminiscent of classic '30s noir films, Able Danger tracks a Brooklyn bookstore owner (based on the owner of Vox Pop) and a European femme fatal over bridges and on bikes in the dangerous search for 9/11 truth." Robyn Hillman-Harrigan FLAVORPILL http://flavorpill.com/newyork/events/2008/9/11/abel-danger