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Release Date: 23 October, 2001 Retail Price: $9.98 OUR Price: $8.99 You SAVE: $0.99! Cast: Complete Cast (9 total) |
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HAS ENOUGH BLOOD TO GAG A VAMPIRE
Brief plot summary: two low life hoods kidnap a pregnant surrogate mother. Her baby's "father" (sort of) turns out to be a mob boss (or has mob connections), said mob boss whistles up his goons, they go after the hoods, and then a lot of people die. If you like watching characters for whom you care nothing about get slaughtered in bloody gun fights, this film is for you. You don't have to worry about a plot or being required to use your brain, just sit back and watch the mayhem. Speaking for myself, the first 10 minutes of guttermouth verbal abuse directed at del Torro and his pal by the woman he ended up punching out was more than enough for me, but unfortunately, the friends I was with wanted to see the whole thing, and I had to sit through the whole thing to the very bloody end. So, in summary, Way of the Gun is just a Pulp Fiction wannabe put together by some Quentin Tarrantino wannabe and you could do a lot better for an evening's home viewing. If gritty violence is what you like, and feasable plots are optional, Narc with Jason Patrick (one of Hollywood's better stars and one of the least appreciated) and Ray Liotta is a far more masterful piece of film than the sophmoric Way of the Gun.
shoot out in ho house is a stand out
This film is usually tagged as a Tarantino wanna-be but it has little in common with jokey pieces of fluff like PULP FICTION. This is a densely over-plotted film-- there's a few too many layers of deception among a few too many characters-- but it at least takes the idea of death seriously. This is not light-hearted stuff, it's almost solemn. i found it to be more interesting than the massively over-rated USUAL SUSPECTS.
It suffers in the sense of not clearly fleshing out the personalities of most of its characters but it ends with one of the all-time greatest mexican whorehouse shoot-outs i've ever seen.
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