The Death and Life of Bobby Z
2007 Directed by John Herzfeld
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A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hostage switch with a crime lord. When the negotiations go awry, Kearney flees, with Z's son in tow.
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More faux cool Smokin' Aces crap, with a bunch of misfit hitmen and cronies chasing after some guy because the plot says to. I have no interest in who wrote the script, but I hope they never write another. Drivel this cookie-cutter, yet vague and unintelligible, is hard to find - I had no idea as to the exact plot or the motivations of the main characters, and judging by the amount of similar questions on this movie's IMDb board, neither did a lot of other viewers. Black cowboy fed (Larry "Laurence" Fishburne at his smug best) frees crim from jail to impersonate famous drug dealer, then organises various bikers and lowlifes to take him out. Paul Walker is acceptable…
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This a is a truly terrible movie. There is nothing right with it. The director hasn't been given a project since. That should tell you everything. Don Winslow deserves a good adaptation of one of his great modern noir novels. This is not it.
Wait I forgot, how the hell does Jason Flemyng get paid to act? Always at a standard below amateur dramatics, in this he is particularly excruciating. I blame Guy Ritchie, but then Guy Ritchie is the devil.
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Olivia Wilde, a definite youthful veteran of television programs, is the most expressive person in this DTV-level fare by a mountain slide. Never thought I'd be jotting that down. Seriously, though, she has just enough moments to display she's far better than John Herzfeld and this slight material deserves, what with its really dopey final gunfight and really dopey hodgepodge of mistaken identities. Remove her from the equation, and this would probably be an even less watchable movie with Laurence Fishburne in it somewhere than the amount of Biker Boyz I bothered with.
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More faux cool Smokin' Aces crap, with a bunch of misfit hitmen and cronies chasing after some guy because the plot says to. I have no interest in who wrote the script, but I hope they never write another. Drivel this cookie-cutter, yet vague and unintelligible, is hard to find - I had no idea as to the exact plot or the motivations of the main characters, and judging by the amount of similar questions on this movie's IMDb board, neither did a lot of other viewers. Black cowboy fed (Larry "Laurence" Fishburne at his smug best) frees crim from jail to impersonate famous drug dealer, then organises various bikers and lowlifes to take him out. Paul Walker is acceptable…
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Pretty average straight to DVD action thriller . . . My review:
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