Faded/fading stars, newbies just out of school, a plot which makes little sense, clichés tired and banal, dialogue which adds insult to injury, performances which range from good jokes to bad, to just tired as well. You hope everyone was stoned and having fun enough to actually laugh at the mess they're making which at least aspires on occasion to camp, however hard it falls on its face. Dreck, grade D product with grade B- production values. Only the dregs of basic cable could pass this off as a way to kill a couple of late-night hours, which might work as you also do your toenails (and/or beat weed), listen to music, and chat online.

Hard Luck is a truly odd film. It stars Wesley Snipes and is written and directed by Mario Van Peebles. At first glance, it's a combination of a typical Snipes action movie and the modern-day blaxploitation films that Van Peebles specialises in. Snipes portrays an ex-con desperately trying to go straight, who innocently blunders into a drug deal/police sting gone wrong, and is forced to go on the run with a Cuban stripper he's only just met (played by Jackie Quinones). Cue shoot-outs and car chases. So far, so expected.However, the movie then begins cutting away to an entirely separate 'Saw'-type storyline happening many miles away, concerning a couple of backwoods serial-killers who abduct and torture people to death, filming themselves while doing so. And in the first indication that this film is going to be out of the ordinary, one of these snuff producers is played by Cybill Shepherd - yep, Cybill Shepherd!!!Meanwhile, back in the Snipes storyline, the crime aspect is practically forgotten and it almost turns into a standard road movie, complete with a cameo from veteran character actor Luis Guzman as an extremely camp gay porn baron. Eventually the two separate plot lines converge when Snipes crosses paths with Shepherd at the movie's climax.As a result, Hard Luck is bizarre but strangely fascinating. It really is like watching two entirely different movies that have been edited together. There's even a third major plot line - with Aubrey Dollar as a teenager travelling across America with her boyfriend - that has mostly been left on the cutting room floor.The stunt casting of Shepherd works really well, and she's clearly enjoying herself in a real change-of-pace role. However, there's something slightly distasteful about the movie's treatment of female lead Quinones. Seemingly not content that she's playing a stripper (her introductory scene has her performing a pole dance, immediately followed by a naked lap dance) who wears very revealing and skimpy clothing outside work, the script keeps coming up with really lame excuses to get her character to completely disrobe several times throughout the film. In fact, so lame are the reasons for her stripping off, that the writers are clearly admitting how gratuitous it is, in a half-hearted attempt at self-referential parody. You can almost imagine them whispering in your ear as the film unfurls - "yeah, we know there's absolutely no good reason for her to get her kit off in this scene, but look, that's one shapely butt she's got." Quinones' entry on the IMDb reveals only a few minor credits, and this is her biggest role so far. It's most likely a case of a struggling unknown actress accepting an exploitative role that other, more established actresses would probably have kept clear of. Quinones is actually very good in the part, proving that she's not only extremely easy on the eye, but has got more-than-capable acting abilities as well. Hopefully we'll see more of her (no pun intended).

"Motherfu**er" I hated this movie so much that I wanted to kill myself. I'll rather sit on a sharp pole and get punched in the face by a "fu**ing" professional boxer then to see this "fu**ing" movie again. How the "f**k" did anyone let you do this "sh*tty" "sh*t" movie?!And thanks to Pixel monger, INC for the visual effects. Or "f**k" you you "imbacill" maggots. "F**K" "F**K" "F**K" "F**K" "F**K".Thanks also for the worst music I have ever heard, "f**k" all of you sound-directors and musical "sh*tters".Want to say "f**k" to to the whole cast and film crew but specially to:Mario Van Peebles Donald Kushner Brad Wyman Larry Brand Peter McIntosh G. Marq Roswell Karin Williams Tom Williams Katie Tower Kelly Cronin JC Brotherhood Chris Jordan John Ruggleri Brian Ricci William Jakielaszek Nicholas Mendez Kyle Clausen Scott & Amy Billups Joanna LevyAnd at last Wesley Snipes, you make me cry.Worst "movie" ever.Love, Angry Filmhater

Continuity, was a bit lacking, as the movie opens the obligatory car chase is going on, and our hero is being chastised, by the love interest, in English, yet later in the film as this scene is expanded he is being screamed at in Spanish!I was left feeling that the story could have done more with the "Serial Killer" duo, I liked the humor of the Diner scene when a Halloween costumed kid comes up and says "Yahhh! I'm a Serial Killer!" & Cybill Shepherd comes back with "Well, I'm a Serial Killer, too!!!" All the cops and robbers, and bad boy trying to go straight has been done to death, and as for getting a pole dancer to strip, so that she "won't run into the street, naked"... Really!!! There are interesting characters like the Gay XXX movie producer "Latinos are the NEW Exotic" Cass the Serial Killer "Imagine the worst thing that can happen to you, and I will show you how limited your imagination really is". Could have been a 'good' movie...