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Some have argued that Boorman, the director of Excalibur (1981) and Hope and Glory (1987), doesn't employ his extravagant visual gifts in The General , which is in black and white and isn't ostentatious in its mythic resonances.
Using only the simplest cinematic means, Boorman achieves what Martin Scorsese needed whip-pans and zoom lenses and a cacophonous sound mix to do at the climax of GoodFellas (1990): He gives you the jittery and suffocating sense of the universe closing in.
To monitor his movements, the authorities appoint an inspector (an amusingly sober Jon Voight, reunited with Boorman for the first time since the 1972 Deliverance ), who soon has the resources to post cops on Cahill's back fence and on the street in front of his house, and to follow him and his gang wherever they go.
Based on Richard Stark's The Hunter , the same novel that provided narrative fodder for John Boorman's avant-garde noir Point Blank (1967), Payback has a syntax much more old-fashioned than its predecessor.
Martin Cahill (Brendan Gleeson), the protagonist of John Boorman's marvelous almost-comedy The General , is a gangster in the flamboyant movie tradition of movie mobsters who smile at the bullets that end their lives.