While watching, I kept asking, what is going on? The idea that a movie
will leave you in the dark, bringing out twists and trying to make you feel
unprepared for what’s coming ahead, I guess sounded fun to the director and the
cast. The problem is, the only thing I ended up feeling was anger and disdain
for the actors and the makers.
The movie is directed and written by Aaron Harvey, with Forest Whitaker
taking the lead role. The movie seemed like a Bruce Willis film, judging by the
posters with his face splattered all over them, but it was Whitaker who had the
lead, with Willis’s screen time barely being half the movie runtime.
Whitaker played Ronny, a sadistic character who seems off his rocker.
The other cast members just played their roles and died. Which is one thing
that works for this movie, nobody seems to matter more than the three people on
the poster, so you do not need to get heavily invested.
The movie was supposed to be a twist story, making the audience wonder
how it would play out, but the director threw in so many flashbacks that he
lost you along the way. The plot is as simple as they come, nowhere near as
complex as the director probably wanted. The idea of making the audience ache
to find out what was going on might have looked good on paper, but on screen,
it was just plain stupid. These things make me wonder why some executive read a plot, and still go ahead to invest in such movies as this.
I feel the movie did not go through the need production steps or thought, as you can see laziness splattered all over this movie.
The plot is: Mel (Bruce Willis) sends his three girls (not his daughters,
just employees) to handle a drug and money pickup.
Unknown to the girls, there was more to the task than it seemed. Ronny
was madly in love with Tes (Malin Akerman), and Billy (Shea Whigham) couldn’t
handle a simple job. In the end, everyone gets shot.
The movie ends abruptly, leaving you wondering why Willis and Whitaker
took these roles, as their talents weren’t used. Whitaker is an Academy Award
winner (for his role as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland),
so it’s funny seeing him in a movie like this. Makes you wonder if better roles
aren’t finding him, but I guess they all did it for the money which who are we
to say anything about that.
Would I recommend seeing this movie, hell no!
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