Deadlock

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Deadlock

I only wanted to check this so to hear how the music of "The" Can had been used and was surprised to see that the answer was: very effectively .... never really thought of Can's tunes as filmic despite the album Soundtracks but yes and very good here The film is mostly to me interesting because of the landscapes we are informed The Negev in Israel sometime after the 6-day War; there is great use of a broken-handed wooden advertising board and many other cool touches photographic and landscape-driven The actual tale is duller than dishwater the acting fairly good but not memorable All in all would rate it a five or a six.

Better than it has any right to be. It's an odd film, is 'Deadlock'. It drags its heels pretty much from start-to-finish and can feel aimless at times, though to be fair it certainly does live up to its title. The performances from Mario Adorf, Anthony Dawson and Marquard Bohm are solid and are the main reason as to why I'm rating this as I am. The whole thing looks neat for 1970, too. I can kinda see why others like this more than I do, but for me it falls short to what it was seemingly attempting to do. Location is cool, cover (not the current IMDb one) is ace, (much praised?) soundtrack is meh. Still, I'd class it as 'good' - albeit marginally so.