This film was fun. Perlman was a joy to watch, as usual. Though the plot may have been a little bit formulaic, it still worked.
In director Jonathan Sobol's "The Baker", Ron Perlman plays the title role. Donald Gilroy (Perlman) owns Pappi's Bake Shop, and Sobol's camera captures our culinary hero kneading dough quite serenely.
However, Don has a secret, violent past, where he was surrounded by enough guns to recognize when a .38 caliber is fired just by listening to the shot. Well, his peaceful existence in the food industry is disrupted when his son Pete (Joel David Moore) witnesses a bloody and lethal clash between drug dealers. Pete leaves with a gym back full of drugs, the latest rage called Pink, but the head dealers want the sack of narcotics back. Pete is an absolute idiot. The son is sketched out as an total moron. I can see why dad abandoned him. I would too.
Perlman's presence was really all you need, he plays a bad ass very well. That face alone convinces us. The direction was decent, the girl was cute, and the plot was good enough. Not a great film but not a bad film, fairly entertaining.
In director Jonathan Sobol's "The Baker", Ron Perlman plays the title role. Donald Gilroy (Perlman) owns Pappi's Bake Shop, and Sobol's camera captures our culinary hero kneading dough quite serenely.
However, Don has a secret, violent past, where he was surrounded by enough guns to recognize when a .38 caliber is fired just by listening to the shot. Well, his peaceful existence in the food industry is disrupted when his son Pete (Joel David Moore) witnesses a bloody and lethal clash between drug dealers. Pete leaves with a gym back full of drugs, the latest rage called Pink, but the head dealers want the sack of narcotics back. Pete is an absolute idiot. The son is sketched out as an total moron. I can see why dad abandoned him. I would too.
Perlman's presence was really all you need, he plays a bad ass very well. That face alone convinces us. The direction was decent, the girl was cute, and the plot was good enough. Not a great film but not a bad film, fairly entertaining.