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Release Date: 27 May, 2003 Retail Price: $9.99 OUR Price: $9.99 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Complete Cast (5 total) |
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Not As Bad As The Reviews Would Indicate
A bank robber, Basinger, wants to go straight but she is forced to do another big bank job because her son is kidnapped by a bank-robbing kingpin. The story has many twists and turns. Although it is a bit far-fetched, the story is entertaining.
there was only man for the job: a woman
Director Russell Mulcahy's action heist doesn't reveal as much bank theft hardware as Jon Amiel's 1999 Entrapment, nor allows for the star power that Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sean Connery provided for the later film. As the protagonist, a reknown bank robber out on parole after 6 years in a Georgia jail (which allows for her accent) and blackmailed into doing another bank, Kim Basinger is limited by the genre's stereotype of a woman in an action movie and the mysogynistic screenplay by William Davies and William Osborne. We know things are off when Mulcahy doesn't give Basinger the coverage to confirm the Who is That? response of Val Kilmer as someone vaguely connected to her parole officer and a rookie criminal. Basinger's self-conscious beauty is seen to attract constant sexual harassment by men far less appealing than her - just note the repeated "you've kept your figure" observation - but then Mulcahy has a queasy scene where she is beaten and offers no self defence when she has already demonstrated she possesses some skill in that area. Why? Does Basinger being so beautiful mean she must pay for it? When she is first released from prison a man comes on to her on a train, but he is inexplicably repelled when she tells him she robs bank. There is also an implication that she is a bad mother for abandoning her child in favour of a life of crime. We're never told why she started robbing banks, though considering what her ex-husband is like, it may have been just to get away from her life with him, if you can believe she would have ever been interested in him in the first place. Mulcahy doesn't have the comic skill to give Basinger in a black wig any payoff (though Basinger in a black wig is still recognisably Kim), and he even scores points off her by having her not wear gloves when she breaks into someone's house. We get the hackneyed stalled car when the driver is in pursuit, rain during the bank heist, and a very MTV image of someone pouring a bottle of water over their face, which can only be partly contextualised by the apparent heat of the vault drilling and the matching sweat on Basinger's face. Mulcahy cleverly provides cross cuts to security police racing to the bank during the heist to create suspense, since the mechanics of the heist itself are lacking in detail, but Kilmer's timing of the security route from their base to the bank is merely an excuse for an extended stunt driving sequence. Kilmer doesn't make much of an impression here, and doesn't even get to touch Basinger, but Terence Stamp as the head of the bad guys gets a good yell in closeup.
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