Hard Luck

Buster Keaton in top action form. The quote from Gil Grissom that dying is easy, but humor is hard is turned on its head at the beginning, after which the film moves into the great outdoors and demonstrates methods of mounting and dismounting a horse that can only be rivaled by Terence Hill in Man of the East. The anarchically stitched-together mishmash of locations is then capped off with a tower jump that even Jason Statham wouldn’t attempt. Actually, he would; he knows how to jump to China as well. (27.06.2024)

From a failed suicide to a similarly unsuccessful fisherman, an even more unsuccessful hunter, a slightly more successful protector of the weak, and finally a jumper who... You have to see it. The twist is brilliant. (08.10.2014)