Styx (2001)

User Rating:

4.5/10   

Director:

Alex Wright

Writer:

George Ferris (writer)

Genre:

Action

Tagline:

They had the perfect plan. Just one thing was missing - Trust.

Plot:

After establishing himself as one of the world's best safe-crackers, Nelson decides to retire from his life of crime and walk the straight and narrow...

Plot Keywords:

Double Cross | Heist | Heist Gone Wrong | Caper | Gangster

Cast

Peter Weller	...	Nelson
Bryan Brown	...	Art
Angus Macfadyen	...	Mike
Gérard Rudolf	...	Sloan
Spencer Sykes	...	Ricky
Ashley Tayler	...	Bank Guard
Terry Norton	...	Teller
George Ballot	...	Ferguson
Emily Whitefield	...	Clerk
Rolanda Marais	...	Doreen
Anthony Mo Marais	...	Marshall
Pierre Malherbe	...	Eddie
Andre Jacobs	...	Player #1 (as André Jacobs)
Ivan Lucas	...	Player #2
Adrienne Pierce	...	Janet

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language, a strong sex scene/nudity and some drug use.

Runtime:

Argentina:94 min | USA:93 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:16 | UK:18 | South Korea:18 | Argentina:13 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Cape Town, South Africa

Company:

Film Afrika Worldwide

Cold emotions, frozen story, icy actors

Nothing really new and spectacular in this British-American 2001 co-production. A bunch of gangsters are robbing a bank, but during their escape they have got a fatal car accident, only a few survive. Later on, they find together again and are planning their next coup... and all those things are gonna happen that you except from such a standard gangster coup movie - brothers in arms, a blonde femme fatale, a groovy sex scene, a well-planned coup with too many people involved, some more gangsters and shootings lots of revenge, of course...

At least "Cold Revenge", as the movie was titled on German TV, avoids copying the fake coolness and hipness of many post Tarantino gangster movies of the last ten years, and Peter Weller and Bryan Brown are doing a fine job, too, but the director fails to find an own, individual style for his gangster drama. There are some nice camera ankles and a thrilling bank robbery in the beginning of the movie, but later on, it all becomes boring and standard in this movie... and just like the tired Weller and Brown, who had their best points of their careers in the late eighties when they starred in the successful "Robocop" and "FX" movies, you are losing interest during this movie... and even Weller's cool Robocop sunglasses can't change that. A missed opportunity.