Blue Iguana

My wife skipped, I watched this at home on DVD from my public library. This is the kind of movie, and story, that would fall completely flat if it were not for the actors.

First is Sam Rockwell as Eddie, on parole after a prison stint and working in a greasy spoon restaurant. Rockwell plays counter to his usual role, here he is a highly efficient fighter of a crook, he and his friend get recruited to go to London to pull off a heist.

This is under the instigation of British actress Phoebe Fox as Katherine who needs to pay off a debt to a crime boss. It will be a simple theft of a lot of cash, but it turns out not so simple.

All that causes a shift in gears, now they have to steal a very valuable blue diamond called called the Blue Iguana.

I was entertained. It isn't a great story and there are lots of goofball antics. Plus in a key scene in a bar everyone with a gun has to shoot so poorly that they couldn't hit the side of a barn if it were 20 feet away. Plus the R-rated language gets old, there is so much F-this and F-that.

But it is a change of pace from all the good movies that have been coming out.