Tarantino

Here's the trailer.



Looks like a good cast, but what could be a pretty bad movie. And it's PG-13, which means at least one DVDTalker definitely won't be seeing it.

= J

FinkPish

Thanks for the trailer, I no longer have to see the movie. I think they went through every possible plot twist except how he gets away at the end, and I'm not sitting through the whole movie to find out.

tylergfoster

Skeet Ulrich looks remarkably like Benicio Del Toro in the trailer.

I love Jean Reno, but this looks fairly uninteresting. If anyone but Screen Gems had produced it, it'd probably be R-rated, and look a lot more interesting.

Trevor

Jean Reno died (to me) after he agreed to be in those awful Pink Panther remakes.

tylergfoster

I thought it would have been awesome if Reno had been playing Clouseau. Jean Reno has done his share of goofy comedies and so I always thought an improved version of the first would have been Reno as Clouseau, Martin as the Chief Inspector, and Jason Statham as the Cato character.

Trevor

That might have been better, and I'll agree that the problem with those remakes wasn't Reno, more the terrible writing.

It was just so darn painful to watch, partly because I loved Sellers so much, but I think I'm with the majority that the Martin films were just awful.

Not sure about Statham, but Reno as Clouseau could have been great in the right hands.

tylergfoster

I just like the idea that his deadly sidekick would be The Transporter.

The Bus

Saw this tonight. I was bored and wanted to see a movie. No limited releases near me and I didn't want to sit through Ninja Assassin.

The movie is better than it should be. The story is about as plain as you can imagine, without any twists or real character development. You can see the script and the director trying to get a message out of this movie. Like Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, it's a movie about down-and-out men trying to get a piece in a down-and-out world. No woman has a speaking role (and I counted a handful in the extras) and every shot seems to have an empty factory nearby. Had a little more thought been put into this, there could've been some really neat symbolism about America's decline built into this. Mamet could've made the barely tense talky middle a bit more bearable. The roles were interchangeable. The dialogue was banal. But the action pieces (when they were around) weren't bad, and the camera kept it interesting, without using ANY MTV style jump cuts. That alone made it entertaining.

I passed the time. The filmmakers knew no one was asking more from them, so they didn't really try. I wish they had.

riotinmyskull

enjoyed the cast. thought the directing was solid especially the action scenes. shitty script. entertaining none the less.

taa455

I saw this last week. Little bored with it, but not bad. I totally agree with Bus that it could've been much better. The tension seemed hollow, with very little meat to the characters.


You forgot about the child services lady who came to their house to say the brother was skipping school. She had lines. But I couldn't remember another female other than her, so point taken.

Ash Ketchum

I'm one of the few people who saw this in a theater. I love this kind of premise--ordinary guys thrust into a caper--and I thought the film started off well, but then it just ran out of ideas and the final section offered one implausibility after another and the whole thing just ended badly. Very disappointing. Also, it was way too reminiscent of Walter Hill's TRESPASS (1992), one of the best crime thrillers of the last 20 years, and it just paled in comparison.

d2cheer

Could not agree more. However I did not see this in the theater...

riotinmyskull

anyone else think it was weird that Mrs. Ganush from DRAG ME TO HELL was the child welfare lady that was informing them they'd be losing their house?

dino88

If anyone is getting ready to watch this could you count how many times they say Jimmy? I'm guessing it's around 30. Most of them are in 2 or 3 scenes, so it should be an easy task.

Troy Stiffler

! That almost makes me want to see this movie.

riotinmyskull

EdTheRipper

Saw this a while back. I enjoyed it. It's not high art but it was pretty damn entertaining.

Solid Snake

ditto.

celmendo

That's awesome! I never would have caught that.