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Probably the worst movie I have seen this year.


A complete waste of time and money.

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My wife got me this out of the $2.00 bin at our local video store. Knowing that and noticing there was not even one review on the box or that it was ever theatrically released, I still didn't listen to my inner movie monkey's warning. RUN! I agree...a total waste of time and talent. More to the point, when Gooding and Liotta deliver one ham handed line after another, Jean Smart inexplicably threatens to shoot Goodings charachter and an 8 year old girl also gets the drop on Liottas charachter you are at the least left scratching your head and wondering how desperate were these actors to accept such a pile of crap for a script. Watch Gooding in Jerry McGuire, Liotta in ANYTHING and Jean Smart in Garden State and then watch this. Like me you'll want at least your $2.00 back but more importantly the 93 minutes of your life lost forever.

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Completely agree! It's so sad too with such a great cast and the writing and directing totally ruined it. Didn't understand a bit of it and when I did, it was too unbelievable to make me care. I didn't even have feelings or care for any of the characters and none of them seemed to have any steady morals whatsoever. I don't even know why this one was filmed.

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I agree. Horrible acting, stupid story. Come on, the girl gets shot in the head, point blank, but survives with no noticeable damage? Cuba Gooding gets shot in the stomach at the end twice, but is able to still attack and kill the bad guy, walk to a car, drive to the hospital, etc?

I understand they shot it in Europe, but don't try to make it as if it's in America. There are obvious signs it's in Europe. You'd have to be a moron not to see it. The buildings have red tiles. At the end scene, what kind of prison looks like a European building with the square cement tiles in the courtyard, the rounded entry ways... I'm an American and can tell it isn't America. Even at the graveyard scene, you can see the huge, virgin growth forests, in America we cut them all down.

What's up with the Scottish badman, with his heavy accent? He came to the US from Scotland to be a criminal?

The worst thing is the stupid "backward" story. I had no idea what was going on for much of the movie, because things "unfold" in reverse. The whole movie I'm like "wait, how does he know this?" or "Wait, the the hell...how is that possible...?" and until the ends when things kind of straighten out.

Even the Cuba Gooding character himself, why is he even involved with the criminal gang? He isn't the kind of guy that would have anything to do with them.

Horrible, stupid movie.

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Well, what do you expect from a straight-to-dvd?

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