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Macerat It's Difficult NOT To Enjoy This Movie

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Lee Eisenberg I remember seeing Yves Simoneau's "Free Money" in the new release section of a video store, despite its never having been in the theaters. I thought it odd that a movie starring Marlon Brando would appear out of nowhere. It turns out that the movie got released in Singapore in 1998 (see the header about the movie on IMDb). As for the movie itself, it makes no pretense about being silly, with Brando as a sadistic warden whose daughters feign pregnancy to force their loser boyfriends into shotgun weddings. While Brando's role reminded me of his performance as Vito Corleone, it still didn't seem like the sort of role in which I would expect to see him. The rest of the cast is OK in their roles, but the plot is so routine that the movie isn't as entertaining as it could be. Worth seeing once.

Michael_Elliott Free Money (1998) ** 1/2 (out of 4) This Coen Brothers rip-off features Marlon Brando playing a sadistic warden who is told by his twin teenage daughters that they're pregnant. The father then makes the two dimwits (Charlie Sheen, Thomas Haden Church) marry his daughters but then they all get mixed up in a train robbery. FREE MONEY cost a total of $30 million to make and features the likes of Brando, Sheen, Church, Donald Sutherland, Mira Sorvino, David Arqiette and Martin Sheen yet it wasn't even able to find a theatrical release in America. This is a pretty bizarre movie from the start and it really makes you wonder what was going on during the production because nothing in the story ever makes too much sense. I'm not sure if it's true but I've heard that Brando pretty much was running the show and actually got this project off the ground, babied it and got it made. Apparently he was calling a lot of the shots so perhaps this is why it doesn't make too much sense. It's really hard to understand what the film is going for because it starts off as a silly comedy and then we get one backstory after another thrown onto it and before long you feel as if you're watching some sort of social drama. Sorvino plays a FBI agent who shows up because escaped prisoners keep turning up shot in the back of the head and then there's a side story dealing with her father (Sutherland) being the judge who is helping Brando with the murders. This entire point of the plot is brought up but never cleared up. The entire bit with the train robbery doesn't ever go anywhere and this part of the story takes you down one road and just drops you off without answering anything. The entire movie is just so weird that I couldn't help but find some mild entertainment out of it because it's clear the cast were at least giving it their all. This includes Brando who I really enjoyed and especially early on when he was playing the nutty father-in-law who would stop at nothing to ruin the men who took his daughter's flowers. Both Sheen and Church seem to be having fun playing dumb. When Martin shows up at the end it's a nice little trick but it's obvious he and Brando aren't filming at the same time so it somewhat takes away from the reunion. FREE MONEY is a hard film to recommend because most people will probably hate it or just be so confused by it that they turn it off. Fans of the cast or just weird movies might get some mild entertainment from it.

barrygermansky-1 Marlon Brando had long since lost interest in acting when he made this film. His performance as "The Swede" is the worst of his career, and that is precisely what he intended it to be. He doesn't overact. Instead, he simply acts in a bizarre fashion and pokes fun at his embarrassingly gargantuan girth. The scene where Brando climbs over the toilet stall is probably the worst, funniest moment in the history of cinema. As we witness him fall head-first into a toilet, it is hard to believe that we are watching the same actor who starred in A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, and The Godfather.I guess the real question is why Marlon behaved like this in his later years. Was he sick of the movie business? Did he just like making a complete and utter fool out of himself? I guess we'll never know. But this film serves as a fascinating study as to what bad acting is all about.On that note, watch fellow acting veteran Donald Sutherland as he struggles to deliver his lines, embarrassed at himself for agreeing to participate in this travesty.

crawl-2 This wretched movie shows that not even some of Gollywood's best can salvage a true landfill deposit..I could spend much time describing everything that was bad about this effort, but that would require more time and I've already wasted 91 minutes watching...IT.Looking at it now, after Brando's death, shows how tragic the life of one of our greatest actors had become.Donald Sutherland? Why? I have to fill more lines to get this accepted. I have to fill more lines to get this accepted. I have to fill more lines to get this accepted.Don't waste your time with this movie. I'm overdue to do something interesting. Bye.