646f9e108c A pair of sociopath killers take on the police and the mob in order to make one last big score. Red is an aging scam-artist who&#39;s just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; but when Ronnie kills an undercover secret service agent, his partner Jimmy Mercer vows revenge and is given one week to catch the killers before being transferred. My first time seeing Viggo Mortensen. What a really good supporting actor he is. (And has turned out to be) Dan Hedaya provides the steady foil for Snipes and Seymour Cassel does his character with panache. A movie I have seen time and time again and have never tired of. My View on the narrative:<br/><br/>A flat based story with minimal action, annoying plain faced characters an d a central plot which had me falling asleep. Wesley Snipes (Blade) starsthe central copper who wants to avenge the murder of his work colleague and his path is linked with Rudolph Red (Played with little enthusiasm by the star of Speed, Hopper). Its uninteresting and dull throughout where audiences will not become associated with the charactersno actors in this film give their full potential and at the end of the day the technique to make the film a more soap styled crime film by being revolving around the characters becomes too dullneither has any interest about them whatsoever. I admire the technique usedit is not your everyday guns blazing crime film and the direction is very well used. However there is no device used to stimulate the intelligent mind and frankly there are better crime films out there e.g. In the line of fire. The connection between Snipes and Hopper is often too coincidental to believe and frankly this lack of realism and coincidental meetings allows audiences to become disassociated with the film. It makes it unrealistic in context and therefore will be harder for audiences to accept. Credit to the film there are many scenes which engage the viewer into the lives of the characters to make them feel sympathy for. Snipes does remotely well whereHopper again plays a character who does not live up to the expectation of a creative and mindful villainaudiences would hope for. Lolita Davidovich performs wellTodorov&#39;s Princess character but even her charming presence and superficial connection with the two central characters will not sit well with audiences. Loyalty and trust are a key part of this film and are often well portrayed, but again I believe the film doesn&#39;t do true justice to the crime genre.
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