Ordered the dvd last week and after reading the comments on this site I was expecting a jolly good time with a sparkling comedy, but - errr - I thought it was a bit lame. Good actors and some interesting ideas for characters, but it (and the acting!) was hampered all too often by lame dialogue - were they all trying to imitate Bollingsworth or what? A bit more colloquialism might have helped. And better directing! I don't know the other work Traktor have done but if they want to make sparkly movie comedies they've still got some way to go. Or am I missing something?
I'm a huge fan of Elijah Wood's and very partial to anything he does, but can't in good conscience give this movie more than a 4 out of 10 (unless I'm really missing a point here???) - it was great to see him do some action stuff & do the gun thing - and the funniest bit in the movie was probably Mikey saying, through his sobs: "Don't worry, I'll do the hit" - but he, as well as some of the others (particularly Selma Hayek) seemed hampered by having to deliver far too many words in some situations, and not necessarily stuff that anyone would actually *say* either. Andy could have been a riot as well (he probably comes closest to being funny, next to Mikey and his craving to see "Cats") - but most of the rest of the characters were fairly clicheed, and do we really need TWO almost identical-looking bitchy women in Kresk's life? (Ex-wife and sister). The premise of everyone trying to be incredibly bad-ass and not succeeding at all could have been really funny, but it all fell down in the delivery. :-(
I'm a huge fan of Elijah Wood's and very partial to anything he does, but can't in good conscience give this movie more than a 4 out of 10 (unless I'm really missing a point here???) - it was great to see him do some action stuff & do the gun thing - and the funniest bit in the movie was probably Mikey saying, through his sobs: "Don't worry, I'll do the hit" - but he, as well as some of the others (particularly Selma Hayek) seemed hampered by having to deliver far too many words in some situations, and not necessarily stuff that anyone would actually *say* either. Andy could have been a riot as well (he probably comes closest to being funny, next to Mikey and his craving to see "Cats") - but most of the rest of the characters were fairly clicheed, and do we really need TWO almost identical-looking bitchy women in Kresk's life? (Ex-wife and sister). The premise of everyone trying to be incredibly bad-ass and not succeeding at all could have been really funny, but it all fell down in the delivery. :-(