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2.9/10   322 votes
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Director:
Michael Lazar
Writer:
Michael Lazar (writer)
Contact:
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Genre:
Crime | Drama
Tagline:
All scores will be settled... more
Plot:
Two pounds of pressure on a trigger pays really well... Ex special forces mercenary and now hardened criminal Vic... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Not What You Want to Watch...Trust Me! more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Michael Lazar ... Vic

Michael Madsen ... Ray

Neal McDonough ... Ford

James Russo ... Butch

Paul Sloan ... Frank

Lisa Arturo ... Thea

Nick Vallelonga ... Santo

Michelle Lombardo ... Layla
Brian Hayes Currie ... Top

Garret Sato ... Cho
Robert Berson ... Rich

Jess King ... Banes (as Jessie King)

Noelle Kenney ... Bible Girl

Robert Ciancimino ... Kane (as Robert Caincimino)
Jimmy Labrie ... Davis
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for violence, pervasive language and some sexual content.
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
USA:R
Filming Locations:
Los Angeles, California, USA

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: Several shooters are armed with single-action semiautomatic pistols. To fire this type of weapon, the hammer first needs to be cocked, either manually or by cycling the slide. However, in every scene in which these pistols are used to threaten victims, the hammers are down. This would make firing them impossible. more
Movie Connections:
References King Kong (1933) more

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3 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
Not What You Want to Watch...Trust Me!, 22 March 2007
1/10
Author: gravity3 from California

If you like action or crime drama, you probably saw something on MACHINE, maybe the cover, and thought 'hey this could be cool. So what if it's direct-to-video, it's probably just the usual indie budget issues.'

That's what I thought too. I was SO wrong.

This is from the school of post-RESERVOIR DOGS filmmakers that believe all you need for a modern crime drama are some cool looking people shooting other people down with cool looking guns, all the while maintaining their cool. Now I'm not a big fan of RESERVOIR DOGS, but Tarantino at least had clever dialog, good blocking, gritty lighting, some nice camera moves, Harvey Keitel, and most of all, a story to tell - he knew guys looking cool and shooting off guns doesn't make a movie. So yeah, Michael Madsen was in DOGS; now he's been in this one, a real dog.

It is difficult for me to describe a film this bad. My viewing experience of MACHINE was something like this: 'Wow, that's the worst camera-work I've ever seen...ever... it's really grainy, like that digital grain Michael Mann got for COLLATERAL with all those cool night scenes with Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise...except those guys aren't in this one, and this just looks BAD. Oh, there's Neil McDonough, wow he's great as ever...wait, is that all we get of him?' You get the idea.

The really astonishing thing was that Madsen and McDonough STILL knocked out good performances (the only reason there's a star in my rating) - a credit to their professionalism. But when they're not on screen (and that's most of the time), then it's just a painful exercise in what not to do when making your own movie. Your uncle probably frames up a better shot with his little hand-held at family get-togethers, than what these guys did here. This DVD is not what you want to watch; it's what you use when you run out of coasters for your drinks.

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