"Fingers" looks almost as if the screenplay were written by a person who began by imagining a half dozen really odd characters and then set about putting them all in some kind of movie. The end result was Fingers.
Kietel plays a violent, none-too-bright young man, Jimmy, who likes music almost too much. He also plays classical piano. He is the movie's odd character #1. His father, odd character #2, loans money to almost anyone who asks, which of course is a problem. Jimmy meets odd character #3, a young woman named Carol. Jimmy yearns to have Carol for his girlfriend although they have almost zero communication and best I could determine, she is something of a prostitute. Carol is at the beckon call of odd character #4, an ex-pugilist, Dreems, played by Jimmy Brown. I'm not sure if Dreems is Carol's pimp or some alternate-style boyfriend. The oddity of the characters made that kind of hard to figure out.
I gave the film a 6 for no real good reason other than I made it all the way through to the end. Maybe it deserved a 5 or a 4, all things considered.
Kietel plays a violent, none-too-bright young man, Jimmy, who likes music almost too much. He also plays classical piano. He is the movie's odd character #1. His father, odd character #2, loans money to almost anyone who asks, which of course is a problem. Jimmy meets odd character #3, a young woman named Carol. Jimmy yearns to have Carol for his girlfriend although they have almost zero communication and best I could determine, she is something of a prostitute. Carol is at the beckon call of odd character #4, an ex-pugilist, Dreems, played by Jimmy Brown. I'm not sure if Dreems is Carol's pimp or some alternate-style boyfriend. The oddity of the characters made that kind of hard to figure out.
I gave the film a 6 for no real good reason other than I made it all the way through to the end. Maybe it deserved a 5 or a 4, all things considered.