I usually avoid B movies where the writer/director also stars in the lead role, as it's almost always pitiable self indulgence a lá The Room. In the case of Scott Leet's Out In Fifty though, there's an exception to the rule. A violent, mean revenge story with no light at the end of the troubled tunnel, it's a bizarre, sketchy little flick that benefits greatly from Mickey Rourke as one beast of a cop on the hunt for the convict (Leet) who accidentally killed his wife in the heat of a passionate affair. Remorseful and tormented, he just wants to quietly exist after he's eventually paroled, but Rourke, still hard bitten over the incident, has other plans. That's pretty much it, but the actors sell the dour tone nicely, especially Rourke, who is at his nastiest and most scarily volatile, with a seething, bleeding broken heart behind the coiled viper, hate filled exterior. Peter Greene is terrific as his former partner who does his best to reign the guy in, and there's work from Christina Applegate, Johnny Whitworth, Ed Lauter and Balthazar Getty as a weirdo pimp/motel owner. Leet isn't bad, especially in the writing department, and holds the thing together with reasonable triple threat talents, although he has scarcely been heard of since this one. Not bad, made better by Rourke and Greene's presence, and worth it for any fan of the two heavyweights.

Here we have the basic formula for a revenge story. Mickey Rourke stars as cop whose wife is accidentally killed one evening whilst entertaining a strange young man. He then starts stalking the convict on his release.....which leads to Rourke's lust for revenge. Had the story been this straight forward on screen then it surely would've bored me to tears, but the films eccentric characters and the complex relationships within the film carry it completely. Balthazar Getty makes a cameo as a whacked out pimp/motel owner Overall well worth a look.It's unlikely you'll see Rourke in a low budget movie again, since his career has taken off again (finally), so check this out if your a fan.

Some film's are so bad they're good...or good enough to watch and laugh at. Chuck Norris' "Breaker Breaker" is one which I enjoyed watching because it was such an awful almost Vaudevillian production. Others, such as "Terror Firmer", are bad enough to be enjoyable on some level even though they're aren't good enough to garner Razzie nom's."Out in Fifty" is an awful film which languishes somewhere between the funny/good-awful and the Razzie candidates with its pathetic attempt to tell the story of a grudge between a macho ex-con and a psycho cop. Among the film's attributes are a stunningly horrible performance by the Osenbeck and co-Director Leet's narcissistic infatuation with his own musculature as he pumps iron."Out in Fifty" is the real deal...the real awful with zero potential. The producers should seriously consider getting out of the film biz and cutting their losses. (F)

Out in fifty. No! More than 50 minutes of boring scenes. This movie did not in any way impress me and my friends. The plot is hard to pick up and the scenes are practically flat and bad. A guy gets imprisoned for accidentally killing a hooker whom he had sex wearing an underwear. And what's another guy doing in that same room? Sightseeing! The next scenes were all boring and nowhere to go. If you haven't got a thing to do, don't pick this movie up in the video store. Just go home and watch the latest news on TV or better yet watch a cartoon film.