Catch.44
Catch.44
R | 09 December 2011 (USA)
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The lives of three female assassins take a sudden turn when their charming boss lures them into one last job. They soon find themselves thrust into a bizarre situation involving a psychotic hit man, a grizzled trucker and a delusional line cook.

Reviews
Caleb Whitney

Tried too hard throughout to be a Tarantino film, but missed the mark precisely because you could tell it was "trying." I swear to all the filthy gods of our fathers, if my television was one of those old deep tube TVs that could explode, I would've effing shot it like Elvis shot out his TV when he was watching Robert Goulet on the Mike Douglas show. The only difference is I wasn't watching in a hotel. This is one of the worst wannabe films I've ever seen in my entire effing life. Put another way, if I had a chance to defecate on this film, I would drop a steaming deuce on it and punch the producer's mother in the mouth.

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Jeffrey Burton

Actors read scripts in order to figure out if they want to do a movie, right? Well, obviously Forest Whitaker, Bruce Willis, Brad Dourif, Malin Ackerman, Deborah Ann Woll, Nikki Reed and that dude from Boardwalk Empire DON'T. This is attempting be be a mid 90's, Quentin Taratino, style caper movie. That would be okay if it didn't rip off the style including extended dialogue with none of the wit or crispness of Q's work, directly stole some scenes and attempted to copy Robert Richardson's cinematography to try to polish this turd. They even try to do a non-linear thing which comes off as embarrassingly self-conscious. To give you an idea of how ludicrous this is, Ackerman takes a ride with Forest and spends almost a day with him and then doesn't remember him two years later. But no, this isn't 'Still Alice'. Then they do a 3-way standoff (sound familiar?) that seems to last for an eternity (not in good way).I'm giving it a 2 because I like to look at Malin Ackerman and Deborah Ann Woll. I would give it another point for Forest's strange but highly watchable performance but nothing can overcome this horrid material. Oh, and they throw in s 70's style title at the end to make their attempted theft complete. Frank Lloyd Wright didn't think imitation was the sincerest form of flattery. He called it, 'Spitting in your master's coffee'. This is a whole sh!tload of spit.

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Ed-Shullivan

I assume the money offered to the actors was just too much to pass up. Too bad, because what the movie had going for it with this great cast, is totally wasted on a pretty shallow and predictably slow (and I do mean slow) moving script. Why do some writers insist on directing their own scripts? I did watch the entire movie anticipating that I would at least see a few good scenes but to no avail. The movie was a total bore. The only actor that I would give any compliment to would be Forest Whitaker. He did an admirable job of trying to add some depth to his character as he played one of Bruce Willis's go to guys to clean up messes and bring in new talent. I do enjoy Bruce Willis's body of work, but dear Bruce, you let your fans down and succumbed to the big pay cheque to star in this disappointing movie. This is not a movie worth saying very much about other than it was oh so slow, with a poor musical score, and a big bore.

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Zero Dark

...create this account. Imagine my disappointment when finding that there was no "0" grade. Ah. well. I suppose a "1" will have to do.I don't blame the actors, I blame the writers, director, the DP, the editor, basically anyone who had something to do with the awful script and crappy visuals. To call this a Tarantino ripoff would be an insult to Tarantino ripoffs.I need seven more lines, but I can't think of anything else to say.This movie doesn't deserve ten lines of text.I hope all of the actors involved fired their agents.Seriously, a Bruce Willis song?"Hey, lets make a movie like Tarantino would, if he had no talent." - the people who made this piece of crap.My favorite part of this movie was right before I pushed "play", before any hope of seeing a good film was dashed in the first five minutes of watching.How did they get some of the actors to agree to be in this? I can only imagine blackmail or the kidnapping of loved ones was involved.

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