Nonureva
Really Surprised!
Tedfoldol
everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Breakinger
A Brilliant Conflict
SnoopyStyle
Nelson (Peter Weller), Mike (Angus Macfadyen), and Art (Bryan Brown) are part of a crew. They do an armed bank robbery. It doesn't go exactly right and a guard is killed. They are about to kill the incompetent drug-addicted gun hire when he shoots first. They crash and Art is injured. Afterward, Nelson tries to move on with a normal life. Mike gets into trouble over gambling debts and Nelson is pulled back into doing one last job.This starts with a promising action section. It's inferior cinematically and is more fitting for a TV movie. There is still an explosion, a car chase, and some hope. It is soon obvious that it's not good enough. The action looks more like 80's TV. It's a lot of slow motion and bad dying. These are solid actors. I'm left with the conclusion that director Alex Wright and his South African crew are up to the task of making top rate movies.
zimbo_the_donkey_boy
They had the perfect plan. Just one thing was missing - any relation to reality whatsoever.It's unfair of these jamokes to market what was obviously a student film as a real movie. This was a collection of clichés. I counted 87. The plot didn't make sense. The characters didn't make sense. The vehicles didn't make sense. The bullets didn't make sense. I hope the stars got paid well. It was the filmmakers' who failed rather than the actors. It appeared that I missed a nude scene of a hot broad by watching this on TV but I did see it on TV so, if that nudity was worth one more star, that wasn't earned from me. I did enjoy my hamburger though.
martin-secker
Okay, this isn't going to win any awards. However, it's not a bad piece of popcorn entertainment as long as you can ignore some glaring continuity errors and clunky dialogue. The lead performances are unusually strong Bryan Brown plays it just right, MacFadyen does a great scumbag impression while Weller adds gravitas to an unoriginal character. I hadn't seen Weller in anything for a few years and he looks very good for his age, the verbal sparring between Brown and himself are one of the highlights. In many ways, it reminded me of the John Flynn movies of the Eighties full of tough-talking, testosterone blokes, good action and risible dialogue.
LHMovieBuff
I admit I started from a false assumption with this film, I thought the story had promise and the leads, especially Weller and Brown would make it enjoyable. Wrong! Every element of the films production comes off as being second rate. Weller and Brown, who are not done any favors by their choice of material, struggle at first, before giving in to complete disinterest. The plot is basic, crims double cross one another for diamonds. This film seems to be double crossing just to fill the ninety or so minutes.The twists and turns are nothing new, predictability renders them a complete yawn. Save your money and put this one back on the shelf.
