Comedy Drama, John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton

John Cusack is a crooked lawyer who has a plan to try and steal just over $2 Million from the mob with his partner Billy Bob.

I was really bored watching this, its slow and doesn't have good enough dialog to keep you interested during slow parts. The musical score will bore you to death. There are a few humorous parts but they are not that funny really. Later in the movie you start to get a few twists here and there but by then I didn't really care.

Not funny enough to work as a dark comedy and not inventive enough to work as a crime-thriller. Outside of Oliver Platt's drunk, the performances barely have pulses. It's all just kind of there.

Comedy Drama, John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton

John Cusack is a crooked lawyer who has a plan to try and steal just over $2 Million from the mob with his partner Billy Bob.

I was really bored watching this, its slow and doesn't have good enough dialog to keep you interested during slow parts. The musical score will bore you to death. There are a few humorous parts but they are not that funny really. Later in the movie you start to get a few twists here and there but by then I didn't really care.

it's like the second feature in a classic noir double bill. the B-movie to a B-movie. solid all the way with a good cast; black humor infused crime yarn, not deadly serious like the other Billy Bob neo-noirs. gets better on subsequent viewings. never caught how well plotted it is. it DOES have a twist too many, but how else are you gonna sell the femme fatale? the non sequitur still doesn't make any sense to me, but i don't think it's supposed to. it's a little dash of existentialism. a little dash of nothingness, like John Cusack's character, like this movie. an amusing detour.

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Nice little Chicago-shot indie from Ivan Reitman that deserved a great deal more attention than it got when it was released. I do have to say that it does seem a little slighter than it should in the script department, even after the Robert Benton polish, but the acting by all involved is on point and the technicians performing at the top of their game. Speaking as a Chicago Local Cameraman, I can see and feel all the Passion and care that went into the making of this feature and Illustrates the excellence within our ranks.

I heard good things about it, but I've found really mediocre. Very halfway between comedy and noir, both sides disappointed.

Oh man, my neighbour suggested this to watch or another film (a war flick). This one had a higher rating on IMDB, of 6.2/10.

I said to him I would give it 4/10 as the end credits rolled. he wouldn't even give it that.

It had no interest, no life to it, the actors were sleeping through it, it was highly predictable. It was just dull pure and simple. In fact, I am amending my score to a 1. I can't believe the average rating for this on here is a 3.

In the UK, we see the odd bad Cusack film and think how can this be? the answer is that most of his shit films don't get a general release here and slip out unannounced, with only a fluke that anyone ends up watching it.

A film to watch by mistake, make no mistake.

Brilliant stuff afoot in this flick. The scene that takes place at the pier is incredible. Oliver Platt is all time in this. Undervalued flick.

Week of Christmas - Film 19
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Feels a little bit like Grosse Pointe Blank 2. Good, but not really much to do with Christmas.

Favourite bit: The foot locker scenes

Not funny enough to work as a dark comedy and not inventive enough to work as a crime-thriller. Outside of Oliver Platt's drunk, the performances barely have pulses. It's all just kind of there.