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DId anyone understand this movie (Spoilers)

posted 20 years ago by PurpleNiobe
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Has anyone else seen this movie?

Does anyone else get it?

This movie came on Showtime a while ago and I only saw it because my newest crush is in it (Six Feet Under’s Freddy Rodriguez). He was in like three scenes: One, he was shooting someone, two he was far off in the distance in the dark, and three he was getting shot. So I pretty much watched this movie for nothing.

I understood the basic premise of the movie, and it had potential. Three friends come to the conclusion that their lives are really going nowhere and they are more than ready for a change. So they decide (with the help of a former boyfriend I guess), to rob a casino, get on a boat, and sail away somewhere with the money and start their lives over.

My question is this: where were the two girls going on that boat? I’m no boat expert but that boat didn’t look too much like anything that was going to get them too far. Lexi seemed interested in France and the French language but I doubt that’s where they were going to try to go.

Also, before Lexi got onto the boat, she placed the wigs they were wearing on Her Russian boyfriend and those two other thugs. Am I suppose to believe that the cops are going to fall for that? Like they won’t look back at the surveillance photo and at LEAST see that the people robbing the place didn’t have beards?

I’m not expecting much of a response to this post. It will be interesting to see if anyone else actually watched this movie and what they thought of it.

[–] rooprect 14 years ago

lol, this thread is 6 years old, but I'll bite. Call me crazy, but I really liked this movie.

I think you nailed it. It's not really a straightforward action thriller, but it's more of a story about 3 women who are trying to escape their loser lifestyles. The point is that these are not professional criminals. They're awkward, inexperienced and sloppy. With that said, I think the filmmakers purposely left a lot of loose ends to show that these women are amateurs.

You're right about the boat. My guess is that it was more of a symbolic thing. They weren't necessarily sailing to Argentina or anything; this was just their way of finally getting "beyond the city limits". With 2 million in cash, I'm sure they could figure out the rest.

You're also right about the lame wig gimmick, but maybe they only needed to buy 10 minutes to make their getaway. The cops at the scene only knew that the perps appeared to be women, so once they see these dudes in wigs, they'd call off the search. Only later would they review the tapes and realize that the real perps got away.