Cinema: Slo-Mo Farce

SITTING DUCKS

Directed and Written by Henry Jaglom

Sitting Ducks starts out as a routine comic caper in which a pair of incompetent criminals (Zack Norman and Michael Emil) make off with the day's take of the Mob's New York gambling operations and make their way toward Miami and a rendezvous with a seaplane that is supposed to take them to a haven in Costa Rica. Indeed, the first glimpses of this enterprise are inordinately depressing: the shooting and editing are tacky, and the dialogue meanders witlessly from one half-improvised notion to another.

But it turns out that Writer-Director Jaglom, whose previous work...

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