Jemima
It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.
MSusimetsa
Despite having such a great cast and director, the movie manages to disappoint with a story that is utterly predictable and offers not a single surprise. I would have hoped for the makers to try to hide even some of what was going to happen, but now it was just a story of a cousellor heading for a train wreck.
Clifton Johnson
Critics hated this one because it was talky and plodding...a non-thrilling thriller. But it still has McCarthy going for it. The first hour of dialogue alone was worth the price of admission: dark and poetic and violent. It sucked me in, even if it did not fully deliver from there. The writing and the acting were great, even if the plot was flawed.
Alan Smithee Esq.
Often considered a dud in regards to the works of director Ridley Scott. I would instead argue that this is a film that while heavily criticized on its release is full of such charismatic and bizarre performances from a fine ensemble cast that you'll never be bored and you'll often be surprised. The story never stops keeping your attention with it's twisting plot and gruesome stylized violence. There are things in this movie that you won't see anywhere else...I promise.
tom-456
In Mexico, lawyer-man decides to dabble in the drug trade, and is strongly advised not to, by the two men who are his connections to the drug trade. Some stuff subsequently happens involving drugs, but it is damned near impossible to figure out any connection to lawyer-man's two drug connections, and nothing whatsoever is ever revealed about what lawyer-man did for them. Lawyer-man visits character played by Rosie Perez, in prison. She tells him that her kid is in jail, for speeding. The scene cuts quickly to a motorcyclist riding very fast along a desolate road, so we can infer that this is her son. A truck hauling septic waste pulls into a small lot. A man steps out and then removes an electronic immobilizer from the back of the cab, which he gives to another man in exchange for cash. This man meets up with the young man who rides the fast bike and delivers the device to him. They are watched by another man and woman in a car some distance away. Via cell phone, the man watching talks to a woman who we soon learn is the girlfriend of lawyer-man's #1 drug contact. The young man who rides the fast motorcycle is soon killed, and the device is taken. The truck is subsequently taken, from the yard at the small septic company's facility. Out on the highway in the middle of nowhere, they are pulled over by two phony policeman. After a bloody shootout, the sole survivor, one of the phony policeman, is now in possession of the septic truck. Both of lawyer-man's drug contacts inform him that he is in serious trouble, but he hasn't a clue why, and neither do we, because we have not been told a single thing about exactly what his involvement with the drug people was. We literally have no clue. Lawyer-man's #1 drug contact (the one with the girlfriend) is killed. The other one escapes, via airport jet. Lawyer-man panics, calls his fiancée and gives her instructions where to meet him. She gets taken at the airport. Lawyer-man's surviving drug contact arrives in Heathrow, goes to hotel, and at the desk has an apparently chance encounter with a strange woman. This woman later meets with the girlfriend of lawyer-man's #1 drug connection, and hands over, in exchange for an envelope filled with cash, a piece of paper with a password. On the street, lawyer-man's #2 drug contact is quickly killed by joggers who take his briefcase and deliver it to the girlfriend of #1, waiting in a car. She opens it, inserts a thumb drive into the small laptop computer, logs in, and up pop a couple windows for banks in the Caribbean. Lawyer-man lays on the floor of some grungy apartment somewhere and is awakened by a knock at the door. He opens the door and finds a small boy who is delivering an envelope. He opens the envelope and finds a DVD, then gets sick and drops it on the floor, without watching it, and sobs. His fiancee's body is then shown being dropped by a bulldozer into a large landfill / garbage dump, and buried under a large amount of garbage. Too bad we never learned exactly what lawyer-man had done to have deserved all this. Apparently, the screen-writer felt that it was sufficient for the viewer to know that lawyer-man did some unethical/illegal lawyering for some bad people who stole from some other bad people and who were in turn robbed by one of their own. But even this much was difficult to figure out, and there were a great many obvious questions that were never answered. This movie is not worth watching. Even if it were condensed to where you only had to spend five minutes watching it, it still wouldn't be worth the time to watch it.
