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Features • NTSC In Theaters : 25 October, 1996 |
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| I'm a huge Vincent Gallo fan, I like his music and his movies but the only roles I've seen him in are the roles he wrote for himself in "Buffalo 66" and
"The Brown Bunny". Gallo is an immense talent, the man does everything and is extremely underappreciated. Not only is this movie good, but it's cool to see Gallo acting and reciting dialouge that is not his own. In both his own films, he plays a tortured character who's incapable of connecting with other people. Here, he's in a comedic role so it's a nice change of pace (note: this movie was made 2 years before "Buffalo 66" and almost 8 years before "The Brown Bunny"). By now, Gallo is known (if known at all) as the guy who got oral sex performed on him for TBB, but this movie really displays his comedic and acting talents. But enough about Gallo because this isn't really his film. The movie is about three unemployed guys named Russ (Gallo), Sid (William Forsythe, "The Devil's Rejects"), and Jerry (Adam Trese). Since they all seem incapable of getting jobs they decide to rob a jewelry store, but accidentally end up in the bakery next door. Russ robs the register, Jerry eats the baked goods...The cops show up, Russ gets away and Jerry hides in the bakery and still eats while the cops look around. Coincidentally, Russ's brother-in-law is a cop, who doesn't realize at first that there's powder from donuts all over Russ's coat. After the bakery debacle, the guys decide that maybe the criminal life isn't for them; but Jerry has a wife (Lisa Gay Hamilton, "Nine Lives") and a child to feed so they need jobs. After a few unsuccesful jabs at a real job, they decide to rob armored trucks using toy guns. All the actors are funny and Oscar Winner Frances McDormand (Best Actress, "Fargo") has an extended cameo. The movie has some funny dialouge and the situations that the characters get into are pretty stupid and unrealistic, but still funny. But the movie does have its flaws, I don't think the film should've began with the robbing of the bakery and why does it never occur to the guys to fill out a job application? But all the actors are great and each character's personality is so different. As I said, I've only seen Gallo in two other movies and I've only seen Forsythe in "The Devil's Rejects" and the transformations are amazing. As I said, it has it's flaws which keeps it from being a 5 star movie but it is an entertaining and funny movie. GRADE: B+ |
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