The Tiger's Tail (2006) (original) (raw)
Synopsis
When your past is a lie... and your future is not your own.
After a chance encounter, a Dubliner is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself.
Cast
Popular reviews
The Tiger's Tail certainly is an interesting, dark, satirical drama which takes place during Ireland's Celtic Tiger boom and follows Liam as his life begins to unravel after a doppelganger starts stalking him. At the core of the film, it's going for a psychological thriller with a strong social commentary undercurrent throughout, and Boorman uses this strange plot to critique the greed and hollow prosperity of this era, and it shows throughout. Brendan Gleeson is also incredible here in dual roles, and his constant change from role to role is effortless, and Kim Cattrall is no Samantha here but still entertaining. Visually, it's intriguing too, but arguably it's a bit heavy-handed with its commentary, and it never feels like it fully comes together, but it still remains an ambitious, intriguing film and an exploration of greed and morality, and it's certainly an underrated one.
A more entertaining version of "The Vagrant", by way of the Irish Hallmark channel. Brendan Gleeson is twice as good as normal and Kim Cattrall does an Irish accent in this tale of a wolf in wolf’s clothing from the writer and director of “Zardoz” and “Excalibur” (this movie is nothing like those movies).
John Boorman creates such a wave o mystery, almost like a fog stopping our sight from looking further than just a few objects right in front of us. Brendan Gleeson takes on the role like a champ and despite his character lacking a bit more development, it makes up for a nice story about identity and existing.
Why I watched this one? Mr. John Boorman...director of Deliverance and Excalibur directed this one.
What is this one about? Brendan Gleeson's life is turned upside down when a double of himself starts popping up in his life. Is he going crazy or is somebody playing a trick on him?
My thoughts on this one? Excalibur is one of my favorite movies of all-time....so I am always willing to give Mr. Boorman lots of leeway when it comes to his new movies. The story in this one is pretty interesting.....but the twist is pretty predictable...and overall I did not buy the ultimate resolution to the movie. Gleeson does well in one of his few leading roles. Final thought: In my rating system every movie starts out with 3 stars....this one did nothing to move up or down in my rating....so it ends up being a pretty average movie.
Qué película tan extraña. Nota redundante cuando se trata de la penúltima película del director de Zardoz o Exorcist II: The Heretic. Pero The Tiger’s Tail es otra marca de rareza. Un thriller cómico que en sus mejores momentos recuerda al subplot de Dougie Jones en Twin Peaks The Return y en sus peores momentos (te veo, Kim Cattrall) a The Room. Definitivamente funciona menos como drama familiar que como suspense corporativo. Extraña de ver también. Desaturada y sosa, como la versión a color de The General que venía en el dvd.
Tenía ganas de que fuera una joya perdida lista para ser descubierta, pero no. Aún así, no mal rato para completistas de Boorman, indispensable para completistas de Gleeson. Y amo poder ver este tipo de cosas en Tubi. Representativas de un tweet genial que leí hace poco que decía: “Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station”
Брендан Глисон в двух ролях сразу — успешного ирландского бизнесмена и разлученного с ним при рождении брата-близнеца. Типичная история про двойника, который по всем фронтам подменяет главного героя, в том числе на супружеском ложе, снята блекло как телефильм, а счастливое разрешение конфликта просто смехотворно. Наверное, тем, кто разбирается в подобных нюансах, интересно будет послушать, как Ким Кэттролл говорит с ирландским акцентом.
Part of my 5 Directors x 5 Unseen Films (11) challenge.
Writer-director John Boorman has some serious fun with the notion of identity theft here. It's not the garden variety stolen credit cards, but a complete and utter displacement of a person by his "double." In this case, the target is corrupt Dublin developer Liam O'Leary (Brendan Gleeson), who seems very successful but is teetering on the edge of financial and marital failure.
Liam's plans to build a new national stadium for Ireland have been shut down by the various ministers and planning commissioners whom he's bribed. His wife Jane (Kim Cantrell) suspects him of being unfaithful, and his college-age son Connor (Brian Gleeson) has no respect for his capitalist…
More interesting than good. Wish sexism wasn’t quite so obviously on display too. The big “”””””””sex scene”””””” with Kim Cattrall gave me real Pussy Galore “get into it gal” vibes.
Yucky.
When people give me movie recommendations I always take them seriously, but there's so much to watch oftentimes they fall by the wayside until much later. After Zardoz though I was still very much in a mood for more John Boorman and thankfully @Sam recommended me another film of his to check out, this one. I had already knocked out most of his heavy hitters, so I was interested to watch one of his lesser known films of a different era than the ones I'm used to seeing from him.
I'll start with the cons, even though I ended up enjoying this film. First, the washed out colors. I know considering the time this came out that this was a…
A John Boorman film starring Brendan Gleeson? Should have been more wonderful. I'm always ready for a good doppleganger film, but this one never seems to get going.
Typical late Boorman thriller, economical but fairly interesting, mostly well played by a cast of locals (and a somewhat miscast Kim Cattrall).
A playful picture not without laughs but Boorman shoots Dublin like he hates it. Grey, drab, corrupt at its core and filled with drunks.
I liked it and my cousin didn’t.