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7/10
Really well done!
BandSAboutMovies24 March 2019
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Alan Grilo is a police officer struggling to do his job because all he can think about is how his wife might be cheating on him. Then, there's Glenn Kolasa, a bank thief who is dealing with Alan chasing him down as well as two blackmailers. Everyone gets pulled into a dangerous and violent cat and mouse game between these two men.

Director Richard Friedman may not be a household name, but around here, we celebrate him for Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge. He also directed several episodes of Friday the 13th: The Series and Tales from the Darkside, along with movies like Doom Asylum, Scared Stiff and Death Mask.

This movie has some unexpected star power, as Paul Sorvino is in it. Jason Gedrick is the lead as Grilo and you may remember him as the lead from Iron Eagle way back in 1986 and Backdraft.

I really liked the actor who played Glenn, Treva Etienne. He's been in a variety of films like Bad Boys II, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Black Hawk Down in smaller roles, but as he finds a star role here, he really goes all out.

Character actor Vince Lozano also appears and produced. You may know him from roles in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl or TV's The Last Ship and American Horror Story.

This movie has some really fun little touches, like the blackmailers' handwritten letter and the different people that Grilo interviews about the bank robbery, like the lady obsessed with playing poker. And the blackmailers make the whole film.

This was way better than I thought it was going to be. I'd compare it to a low budget version of Crash.
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7/10
You can't save everyone
nogodnomasters8 December 2019
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Alan Grillo (Jason Gedrick) is a detective with personal problems and anger management issues. He works for Chief Lassiter (Paul Sorvino) who sings opera and looks like he sleeps in his shirt. Alan suspects his wife Faith (Neraida Bega) is having an affair. He suspects everyone. Meanwhile, two fun potheads are having hotcakes. They espy a man (Treva Etienne as Glenn Klose) who is not Morgan Freeman in an odd disguise. He politely robs a savings bank and then helps a woman Morgan (Kira Reed Lorsch) who is perched to take a swan dive onto the freeway.

The film becomes darkly comical as relationships come together and apart. Entertaining.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity. Background strippers.
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1/10
Horrible
thm9913 October 2019
Wtf did I just watch?! Sorcino and Gedrick were fine but this is a total stinker.

The worst was the main actress Morgan. She is easily the worst ever to watch, her acting is beyond helping and she looked like she has been sucking a lemon her whole life.

There was some flat attempt at comedy but it would have been more fitting in a B slasher flick.
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2/10
What?
belomestnykh10 July 2019
To quote the main character: I'm so confused, it's not even funny.

That sums up this film very well.
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1/10
pathetic rubbish
banjofred-414-7987326 September 2020
Has a number o characters sleepwalking through this movie. Impossible to engage with any of them.

Dreadful
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