This one's not too bad. Stylistically, it is a little confused. At points it wanted to be sort of a British gangster film, and at other points a little Scorcese-like. It does not cover any new territory, and really has nothing in it's plot that you haven't seen before.
You can get a pretty good sense of what's going to happen pretty early on. It's not as violent as you might expect, and the stakes pinned on the characters at the end are pretty Karate Kid-ish. However, the performances by the leading cast are quite good, and this film would of suffered much more had they done any worse.
Chazz Palminteri is very good at playing the kind of low-life that he is in this, and his bad attitude is very convincing. Christopher Walken is also excellent (in the three scenes that he features), and is a good balance to Palminteri's character further on in the film. A little monologue he performs in the bathroom is the absolute highlight.
The main guy "Brad"(?), (Rick Schroder?) is quite natural and convincing, however, the massive hypocrisy his character displays gets annoying quickly, and his hot-headed brother peeved me off within two minutes.
You can get a pretty good sense of what's going to happen pretty early on. It's not as violent as you might expect, and the stakes pinned on the characters at the end are pretty Karate Kid-ish. However, the performances by the leading cast are quite good, and this film would of suffered much more had they done any worse.
Chazz Palminteri is very good at playing the kind of low-life that he is in this, and his bad attitude is very convincing. Christopher Walken is also excellent (in the three scenes that he features), and is a good balance to Palminteri's character further on in the film. A little monologue he performs in the bathroom is the absolute highlight.
The main guy "Brad"(?), (Rick Schroder?) is quite natural and convincing, however, the massive hypocrisy his character displays gets annoying quickly, and his hot-headed brother peeved me off within two minutes.