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Don't waste your time

posted 16 years ago by carolyn0606
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This movie is truly awful. The plot is paper thin, the dialogue is unbearably stiff, the characters are totally undeveloped, and the background music will drive you crazy!! Its only redeeming quality is the unintentional comedy. Example: there's one totally cliche scene where the police detective is eating take-out Chinese food out of the box and he appears to be holding the chopsticks UPSIDE DOWN. Hilarious!!!! A dialogue example: Q: "You mean he's dead?" A: "He'd better be; he's been in a body bag for 2 days." All this is said in total seriousness. Unbelievable!

[–] GreenEyedBrit 16 years ago

I have not seen this yet and I am a fan of Janine Turner, but when I saw it also starred Costas Mandylor it put me off, I have never liked anything that he has been in...to bad the latest from a great actress like Janine Turner had to also star one of my least favorite actors..guess I will have to catch it and see how bad or good it is..

[–] djsnafu23 16 years ago

As the OP wrote, this is laughable, it would be hard ot make a better parody. Plenty of uintentional laughs, the ending being of the belly-aching sort. The rat behind my washing machine could have written a better script.

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[–] stayup_all_night 16 years ago

This movie came on on a lazy weekend afternoon, I watched it, and actually enjoyed it. Costas Mandylor was actually quite good. I won't give away the ending, other than to say it was unintentionally funny, but it was surprising. I wouldn't pay eight bucks to see it, but if it comes on for free it's worth checking out.

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[–] JVIvies 16 years ago

Yeah,how funny??????

[–] darkavenger77 16 years ago

As stated above, the ending was a gut-buster (for one more than others). The best things about the movie were the cars:
Corvette
BMW E34 540i
Pontiac Solstice

SPOILERS- at the end

Predicable who the killer was, and I only saw the last half of the movie.

If you shoot/stab/knock out someone that was armed with a knife:
1) CONFIRM THAT KILL/KNOCKOUT!!!
2) SECURE THAT WEAPON!

If you don't, you know the bad guy (girl) is getting back up and using it on you! I got a good chuckle out of that one.

Ditto the bad girl's death scene after she is shot.

The only way it could have been better is if Leslie Nielsen had been in it as Lt. Drebbin.

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[–] SexysBack 15 years ago

Dude! Your forgot my favorite car! The Benz SL.
I love that car, but it aint so hot now. They redid the body. Last year's models were amazing though.

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[–] jabberttp 15 years ago

As stated above, the ending was a gut-buster (for one more than others). The best things about the movie were the cars:
Corvette
BMW E34 540i
Pontiac Solstice

You forgot to mention the bitchin' red Pontiac G6 the cute Asian girl had in the movie!

Plus the family seemed to have some variety of Porsche 911, too.

[–] parang_sky87 15 years ago

Although I was dying to know who was the murderer, I agree that it was a terrible movie. It was a complete farce and the zoom-in at the last lines from the cheesy novel by the end of the movie made it even worse.
Wrong choice of actors and script.

[–] ELCaminoReal 14 years ago

i love sexy hitwoman, she turns me on! oh yes BMW rocks too :)

[–] tvwatcher616 14 years ago

I so agree the background music is some of the worst ever.

[–] tritan 13 years ago

Spoilers--- as if you are going to watch--
I love the orange lip gloss/ lip stick that is permanently on the lead's lips. Fresh out of the swimming pool-- ultra glossy lips. First thing in the morning in bed-- ultra glossy lips which ends up all over his lips after he kisses her. YEa, she is beautiful and glamorous, but come on. And then they are so happy and smiley after her all these people they know were killed. yeay it's a bright sunny morning and our friends are dead and she tried to kill us, let's stay in bed and make out and write a book. Not to mention the killer was totally predictable, and I think I have seen this all before in a Lifetime movie or something from the 80s.

[–] girlwiththebrokensmile84 11 years ago

I can't believe I watched this! I may adore him as an actor, but this movie was bad. Although, it was worth the wasted 2 hours, just to see him half naked coming out of the shower, and seeing him be a hero instead of a psychopath. So I guess it was okay.
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