Boarding Gate, Asia Argento, ... | BOARDING GATE Michael Madsen and Asia Argento in Olivier Assayas' lifeless ''thriller''
BOARDING GATE Michael Madsen and Asia Argento in Olivier Assayas' lifeless ''thriller''
Movie Review

Boarding Gate (2008)

EW's GRADE
D+

Details Limited Release: Mar 21, 2008; Rated: R; Length: 106 Minutes; Genre: Mystery and Thriller; With: Asia Argento and Michael Madsen; Distributor: Magnet

The cult of Asia Argento has come down to her being worshipped by half a dozen film critics each year at Cannes. She's like a dirty yet blank Uma Thurman who ''smolders'' instead of acts. In Boarding Gate, Olivier Assayas' lifeless corporate-erotic ''thriller,'' she plays a bad girl who's dissolute one moment and wields a handgun like Ms. 45 the next. The character makes no sense, and neither does the film, which has a few choice scenes with Michael Madsen as a financier smirking as he goes down in flames but otherwise never achieves the mod muddle of Assayas' Demonlover. This one is just murk. D+

Originally posted Mar 19, 2008 Published in issue #984 Mar 28, 2008 Order article reprints

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