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An attempted burglary of a strip club goes awry when one of the three burglars kills a man who draws a gun. This results in the trio taking the dancers and the customers hostage. Why the robbers don't go ahead and escape when the shooting occurs is beyond the viewer. Then all the hostages escape and hide in the club's refrigerator which sort of indicates the intelligence of the stick-up men. Unfortunately, the cops outside are no more intelligent as they stand around outside wondering what to do as one of the strippers who was released crawls back into an extremely large venting system for a small club and rescues the hostages with the help of an ex-cop held inside the club. Written by
John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
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Rated R for violence, language and some strong sexuality
This was obviously concocted as a low budget limited location thriller. Set mostly in a strip club, and considering those limitations the story is fairly decent, but why it took three credited writers to come up with this is beyond me? The cast is pretty good, but generally wasted here. The direction is straight-to-video hack job. Checking the director's credits reveals that he's really a stuntman. Luckily for movie fans, he has since returned to his true calling. You'd think by now that Hollywood would "get" that stuntmen and cinematographers are almost invariably not the stuff of movie directors, no matter how talented they are in their own fields. Character development is an essential component of movie-making, and that is the forte of writers and (good) directors. Action and pretty scenery do not equal drama. For Shannon Whirry completists only.