Well my summary says it.
Please forgive me by mentioning the characters by the names of their respective actors.
The Paparazzis where just a group of four thugs giving Cole Hauser (I foresee a nice career here BTW, Hauser has a quiet menace and energy, but he lacks some range), new to Hollywood action movie star success, a hard time.
The payoff is totally overblown. I stopped rooting for Cole Hauser when he started to set up the deaths of the Paparazzis. O.K. the car crash scene (a comment on Princess Diana's untimely death) and some of their methods and background explained by the investigating LAPD detective shows them as real scumbags, but the very straight revenge plot without even a hint of a plot twist makes Hauser's actions unjustified. I also didn't like the last reaction of the detective (I know you killed the thugs but I won't tell anyone because I support you). I would have loved a plot where the guys get killed accidentally in a way not intended by Hauser or where the detective steps in and pays for it with his life - just to keep ethics in place.
I need people to do much worse things than threatening to "visit your son in the hospital" (which was even later revealed as a panic reaction) to justify beating them to death with a baseball bat and carefully set up a plot to frame the worst of the baddies for the death.
A real hack job by the screenwriters to make a movie with a small setup and a huge payoff. Worth only to see Cole Hauser, Tom Sizemore (can't be wrong casting him) and Dennis Farina.
Please forgive me by mentioning the characters by the names of their respective actors.
The Paparazzis where just a group of four thugs giving Cole Hauser (I foresee a nice career here BTW, Hauser has a quiet menace and energy, but he lacks some range), new to Hollywood action movie star success, a hard time.
The payoff is totally overblown. I stopped rooting for Cole Hauser when he started to set up the deaths of the Paparazzis. O.K. the car crash scene (a comment on Princess Diana's untimely death) and some of their methods and background explained by the investigating LAPD detective shows them as real scumbags, but the very straight revenge plot without even a hint of a plot twist makes Hauser's actions unjustified. I also didn't like the last reaction of the detective (I know you killed the thugs but I won't tell anyone because I support you). I would have loved a plot where the guys get killed accidentally in a way not intended by Hauser or where the detective steps in and pays for it with his life - just to keep ethics in place.
I need people to do much worse things than threatening to "visit your son in the hospital" (which was even later revealed as a panic reaction) to justify beating them to death with a baseball bat and carefully set up a plot to frame the worst of the baddies for the death.
A real hack job by the screenwriters to make a movie with a small setup and a huge payoff. Worth only to see Cole Hauser, Tom Sizemore (can't be wrong casting him) and Dennis Farina.