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Ultra-low budget doesn't really hinder this crack Action-RomCom (?) from delivering plenty of old-fashioned hilarious goods. While the acting is decidedly uneven, ranging from high school kids who had to have been friends / siblings of the director to Shakespeare quality (the Frank Oz-ish mob boss guy is great), the film maintains a clear purpose and the right tone throughout.Certainly the main thing that this film needed was some lighting - as the Peter Hyams natural-light look doesn't help in the long stretches of very dim and off-white balanced interior shots (meaning there's a pervasive orange hue to everything). Also, a good chunk of dialog in one scene is quite obviously out-of-sync. This sort of thing is just enough to make in inaccessible to the average discriminating viewer. Granted, a person like me understands these are probably due to budget constraints and a very rushed production scale (I heard the thing was made top-to-bottom in less than 2 months!), but that doesn't help an Indie film find an audience and this flick will likely vanish into obscuro-Indie hell like the rest of them.However, what's amazing about the film is that it really delivers an interesting story and manages to gather up steam and seem fresh when it's of a totally done-to-death genre... and for no money to boot! This is at odds with most of his other "films", which usually boil down to the star wandering around shooting people. Supposedly on this one the director/star/producer/editor/keygrip/bestboy Fredianelli got in a lot of hot water with the local authorities for shooting without permits and insurance... and it's amazing what he (and some of the actors, anyway) accomplish with so little. Decidedly unprofessional but uncomfortably close, this film could very well prime the director for a go at the Festival circuit if he continues to improve upon his formula.
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