Garbage, pure and simple! A strong candidate for the worst film ever made. I suspect the the other reviewers who praised it are either friends of the director or the director himself as no one impartial could possibly find anything about this film to enjoy. It doesn't even have the Ed Wood factor of being 'so bad it's good'. If you put a camera into the hands of someone who'd never seen a movie in their life there is a pretty good chance they'd come up with something better. Anyone who sits through it deserves a medal it's so painful to watch! It's a tragedy that people like this are getting their hands on money to make films this bad when other, more talented people are struggling to finance worthwhile projects.
8 Reviews
Dreadful, dreadful film
jake-48425 July 2006
I hate leaving films before the end, and so I stuck this one out, just to see what happened. Trust me, it's not worth it. I wish I'd turned it off when I first realised what a shoddy, amateur piece of rubbish it was (about 30 seconds in, as it happens) and not wasted 90 minutes of my life. Actually, I managed to speed things up a bit by fast forwarding through the rubbish and irrelevant sex scenes that are scattered randomly throughout the film.
The script is stilted, the acting is wooden, the characters are unconvincing and the camera work and sound is clearly amateur, right from the very first few moments of sound levels changing as characters turn away from the camera. A 6th former at my school made a film about stealing a painting, using a single handy-cam and amateur actors from his year. It was still significantly better than this garbage. Avoid like the plague. It's not even entertainingly bad, it's just painful to watch.
The script is stilted, the acting is wooden, the characters are unconvincing and the camera work and sound is clearly amateur, right from the very first few moments of sound levels changing as characters turn away from the camera. A 6th former at my school made a film about stealing a painting, using a single handy-cam and amateur actors from his year. It was still significantly better than this garbage. Avoid like the plague. It's not even entertainingly bad, it's just painful to watch.
It's raining crap! (mild spoilers)
hkjohn2001a25 April 2005
Warning: Spoilers
A truly bad "film" peopled by badly scripted, amoral characters, not one of whom is remotely likable. The "plot" is infantile. Three or four days after they steal the painting, one of the crooks notices that the paint is still wet to facilitate a twist to let this miserable piece of crap going for another 30 minutes!!!!!! And when one of the heroes' dates dies of a drug overdose, her mates still come around the next night laughing and grinning as if it never happened. All this before you even consider the wooden acting and dialog ("this is the only thing that links us to the heist" already. Really, don't bother wasting your time, this film has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Don't watch this movie!!!!
lorand-113 July 2006
This movie is far the worst one ever seen by me. Bad actors, bad directing, bad photography, etc., etc. The plot is so childish, that even a five year old can do better. And the editor put the crown on it: it barely follows any rules of film editing (but not in a constructive manner).
Everything is very amateurish, except probably some music on the soundtrack, but those have nothing to do with the movie...
I watched this crap because here on IMDb some guy called "robbie" wrote a very positive review about it. But it turned out that he is the same person as the director. So don't believe him, and don't waste 98 minutes of your life in vain.
Everything is very amateurish, except probably some music on the soundtrack, but those have nothing to do with the movie...
I watched this crap because here on IMDb some guy called "robbie" wrote a very positive review about it. But it turned out that he is the same person as the director. So don't believe him, and don't waste 98 minutes of your life in vain.
Raindogs
I_John_Barrymore_I29 February 2008
Warning: Spoilers
Minor spoilers I suppose but trust me you won't care.
Raindogs starts out promisingly for fans of awful cinema, the very first thing you notice being the fact the DVD's presented in the wrong ratio, squashing everything into a fullscreen "tall-and-thin" mess. Then we're treated to the single worst heist in the history of film, where the two thieves use wooden sticks that may or may not be supposed to be baseball bats to steal a Leonardo; there's a David Bowie lookalike played by an actor called (of all things) Gary Grant. There's a wonderful scene in the getaway car where the gang explain everything regarding the payment procedure to each other.
But it's not long before things take a turn for the sinister and it becomes a very uncomfortable way to spend 90 minutes: there is a deep and genuinely disturbing vein of misogyny running through this film. Trainee nurses show up and get passed around the gang for £200 each. After accidentally seeing the painting, one of the women is plied with pills and alcohol which we learn later leads to her death. Barely-dressed hitchhikers are happy to have sex in the backseat; a "sex-starved slapper" groans orgasmically as she's groped in a crowded pub in front of her husband; a female police officer flirts with and ogles one character and returns later in the film to announce she's quit her job for him, but is quickly tossed aside after he learns she likes to use fluffy handcuffs. . . I could go on.
Now I'm no prude, but the constant and mostly unnecessary foul language just reinforces the fact that these guys are absolute scum. These men are not lovable rogues, these men will murder you with a cue ball if you object to them assaulting your wife - yet it's pitched as a jaunty Lock, Stock-style comedy caper, these are the good guys, and we're asked to root for them.
Moffat's trademark indecisive camera is present, and yes it's full of glaring continuity errors and appalling performances from Moffat's regular troupe, but - aside from that opening heist, a conversation comparing Leonardo to David Beckham that briefly threatens to be quite a handy piece of writing by his standards, and a hilarious final showdown that's possibly the worst scene he's created so far - any fun that one could glean from this sinks almost without trace in a sea of relentless, foul-mouthed hatred of women.
A deeply unpleasant experience on many levels.
Raindogs starts out promisingly for fans of awful cinema, the very first thing you notice being the fact the DVD's presented in the wrong ratio, squashing everything into a fullscreen "tall-and-thin" mess. Then we're treated to the single worst heist in the history of film, where the two thieves use wooden sticks that may or may not be supposed to be baseball bats to steal a Leonardo; there's a David Bowie lookalike played by an actor called (of all things) Gary Grant. There's a wonderful scene in the getaway car where the gang explain everything regarding the payment procedure to each other.
But it's not long before things take a turn for the sinister and it becomes a very uncomfortable way to spend 90 minutes: there is a deep and genuinely disturbing vein of misogyny running through this film. Trainee nurses show up and get passed around the gang for £200 each. After accidentally seeing the painting, one of the women is plied with pills and alcohol which we learn later leads to her death. Barely-dressed hitchhikers are happy to have sex in the backseat; a "sex-starved slapper" groans orgasmically as she's groped in a crowded pub in front of her husband; a female police officer flirts with and ogles one character and returns later in the film to announce she's quit her job for him, but is quickly tossed aside after he learns she likes to use fluffy handcuffs. . . I could go on.
Now I'm no prude, but the constant and mostly unnecessary foul language just reinforces the fact that these guys are absolute scum. These men are not lovable rogues, these men will murder you with a cue ball if you object to them assaulting your wife - yet it's pitched as a jaunty Lock, Stock-style comedy caper, these are the good guys, and we're asked to root for them.
Moffat's trademark indecisive camera is present, and yes it's full of glaring continuity errors and appalling performances from Moffat's regular troupe, but - aside from that opening heist, a conversation comparing Leonardo to David Beckham that briefly threatens to be quite a handy piece of writing by his standards, and a hilarious final showdown that's possibly the worst scene he's created so far - any fun that one could glean from this sinks almost without trace in a sea of relentless, foul-mouthed hatred of women.
A deeply unpleasant experience on many levels.
Classic
loger_dave15 June 2005
Not many movies have ever gripped me to stay till the end,this one did in every way,good tongue in cheek movie with more than a pinch of humour.The location of the movie was set in the picturesque scenery of the west coast of Scotland with the added bonus of good acting and a good script.
The scamming these 4 boys do put Oceans 11/12 to shame, they are real fast movers though they make themselves out to be on the dumb side of life.
Would love to see a follow up perhaps how they spend there money. This movie is a must see but not for minors as the language is xxx rated.
The scamming these 4 boys do put Oceans 11/12 to shame, they are real fast movers though they make themselves out to be on the dumb side of life.
Would love to see a follow up perhaps how they spend there money. This movie is a must see but not for minors as the language is xxx rated.
Cult Director
MaxFaust25 December 2010
I am fond of Robbie Moffat movies and have by now collected four of them. I will keep on buying them as they turn up (I don't go looking for them - they aren't THAT good). Perhaps it is because I have a background in theatre and thus like weirdness, perhaps I'm just demented, but I really like his films. Noen of it is GREAT. The actors are shite, the plots are shite, the production is shite, and what the characters say and do often makes no sense compared to a real world of "realism". Yet the finished result carries its own "punch" at some undefinable level. I'm pretty certain that these films will be hailed as "classics" in 20-30 years -- similar to how for instance Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci and Tinto Brass are embraced today (but not when their work was new).
Raindogs is a comedy. Noen of it's supposed to reflect reality such as we know it from Hollywood. It's nihilistic and dark at times, ludicrous at others. Needless to say, none of this would have happened in reality -- but then again so wouldn't most of the other crap that's filmed, included - but not limited to - the hip and clever stories of Guy Richie (who is my other favourite British filmmaker).
Raindogs is a comedy. Noen of it's supposed to reflect reality such as we know it from Hollywood. It's nihilistic and dark at times, ludicrous at others. Needless to say, none of this would have happened in reality -- but then again so wouldn't most of the other crap that's filmed, included - but not limited to - the hip and clever stories of Guy Richie (who is my other favourite British filmmaker).
Entertainment - pure and simple
robbie-moffat24 May 2005
This movie is all about being entertained. Who cares if the plot is not realistic - it is a vehicle to allow us all to have a good time instead of watching tragedy on the news every night.
Rain Dogs is escapism good and proper, and for me, that's the kind of movie that you can watch and wake up the next day and be happy about going to work. Have a beer and smoke your fags, swear and shout, lets just get on with, life is too short to be miserable.
Rain Dogs - I love it! I'll watch it again and again because I know a good movie when I see one. Four guys trying to beat the system and being funny with it, I recommend it should be watched late at night and when your parents are on vacation.
Rain Dogs is escapism good and proper, and for me, that's the kind of movie that you can watch and wake up the next day and be happy about going to work. Have a beer and smoke your fags, swear and shout, lets just get on with, life is too short to be miserable.
Rain Dogs - I love it! I'll watch it again and again because I know a good movie when I see one. Four guys trying to beat the system and being funny with it, I recommend it should be watched late at night and when your parents are on vacation.
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