Post by Mod City on Oct 10, 2018 17:42:19 GMT -5
This is an old favorite of mine, so I'm going to ramble a bit here...
Disorganized Crime
I've loved this movie since I saw it on satellite back in 1990 or so. It's not well-remembered, partially because it falls smack dab between comedy and action, and it never fully embraces either. Still, it turns out to be a well-rounded, good-natured caper story that ends up being really quotable if you get into it. I found it on Vudu streaming and checked it out for the first time in years last night.
It's a small but effective cast: Fred Gwynn, Lou Diamond Phillips, Ruben Blades, William Russ, Corbin Bernsen, Ed O'Neill, Daniel Roebuck and Hoyt Axton. And it's a fun plot. Frank Salazar (Bernsen) recruits four fellow crooks to rob a bank in rural Montana. All four have worked with Salazar in the past, but none of them have actually met each other before. Before they can all meet up, Salazar is captured by the police. The four who arrive afterward, who don't know what happened to him, decide to proceed with the heist on their own. Salazar escapes custody and becomes lost in the Montana wilderness. The rest of the movie is the team learning to trust/bond with each other as they set out to rob the bank while Salazar tries to find his way back to his team and the big payday they're all after.
A few quick notes:
* I'd never seen this in HD, and the Montana landscape looks really gorgeous. I like seeing these high def versions of movies I only remember on VHS, etc.
* Blades is funny as hell in this, as far as I'm concerned. Great tense comedic energy. But the rest of the cast is great, too. Everyone gets at least one memorable line, and they all play well off each other. Bernsen barely has any lines in the movie because he spends half of it alone in the wilderness. All his comedy comes from his physical movement and actions. It's a funny piece of acting.
* This is rated R, but honestly, you'd never know it. No nudity, no sex, the violence is really tame even for a modern PG flick, and the roughest language is a couple of F bombs. I was 14 when this came out and my brother was 11, and my parents had no problem letting us fritter away a rainy summer afternoon with this flick, and they could be a bit touchy when it came to what they approved of.
It's probably not enough comedy for most, nor enough action. But it's a classic to me.
Disorganized Crime
I've loved this movie since I saw it on satellite back in 1990 or so. It's not well-remembered, partially because it falls smack dab between comedy and action, and it never fully embraces either. Still, it turns out to be a well-rounded, good-natured caper story that ends up being really quotable if you get into it. I found it on Vudu streaming and checked it out for the first time in years last night.
It's a small but effective cast: Fred Gwynn, Lou Diamond Phillips, Ruben Blades, William Russ, Corbin Bernsen, Ed O'Neill, Daniel Roebuck and Hoyt Axton. And it's a fun plot. Frank Salazar (Bernsen) recruits four fellow crooks to rob a bank in rural Montana. All four have worked with Salazar in the past, but none of them have actually met each other before. Before they can all meet up, Salazar is captured by the police. The four who arrive afterward, who don't know what happened to him, decide to proceed with the heist on their own. Salazar escapes custody and becomes lost in the Montana wilderness. The rest of the movie is the team learning to trust/bond with each other as they set out to rob the bank while Salazar tries to find his way back to his team and the big payday they're all after.
A few quick notes:
* I'd never seen this in HD, and the Montana landscape looks really gorgeous. I like seeing these high def versions of movies I only remember on VHS, etc.
* Blades is funny as hell in this, as far as I'm concerned. Great tense comedic energy. But the rest of the cast is great, too. Everyone gets at least one memorable line, and they all play well off each other. Bernsen barely has any lines in the movie because he spends half of it alone in the wilderness. All his comedy comes from his physical movement and actions. It's a funny piece of acting.
* This is rated R, but honestly, you'd never know it. No nudity, no sex, the violence is really tame even for a modern PG flick, and the roughest language is a couple of F bombs. I was 14 when this came out and my brother was 11, and my parents had no problem letting us fritter away a rainy summer afternoon with this flick, and they could be a bit touchy when it came to what they approved of.
It's probably not enough comedy for most, nor enough action. But it's a classic to me.