The narrative is about Charly Mattei’s revenge to people who tried to kill him. Charly Mattei was a retired mafia boss. One day, he drops his boy and parks in underground parking structure, and got twenty two shots. Unbelievably, he survived and tracks down those killers and does his revenge for his family and himself.
I think many transition from this 22 Bullets are the most effective and impressive transition that I have ever seen in Hollywood films including Korean films. For example, Charly Mattei’s right-hand man got killed from the same killers. For his funeral, there are crossing over editing cut between the funeral scene and the killers’ after party scene. Two different atmospheres in the film, sadness and entertaining overlaps to the scene that Charly Mattei appears to the party place with holding a gun. Even though the time and place setting is not acceptable for the realistic narrative structure, those transitions is very smooth and impacted to the audience.
Unlike 007 series, the action scenes are so fast cut! There are no hesitating to have dialog between Charly Mattei and the killers. Without dialog just shooting two bullets to head and heart.
Also, there are little bit of past scene that Charly Mattei’s childhood in black and white. Even though it does not show full story of his childhood, the director only gives audience clue that how he got into the mafia group, and how to become the boss. He not only gives information but also communicates with audience by not showing all the narrative.
Very impressive film! 22bullets A-
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