"Can I stab you?"
2 Stars
2 Stars
Geeze this movie was dumb. But it did have Giovanni Ribisi in it, and he's on "My List", and it dealt with organized crime, so I thought I'd give it a shot.
From the same writer of Crash, comes the true story of 10th & Wolf. I thought that would give it a little credit. Tommy played by James Marsden (Who by the way is really going bald! I guess the X-Men set can afford to cover that up, but there may not have been the budget in this one for some hair flocking.). Tommy comes from a "connected" family. Parents are dead, so he and his younger brother are raised by his Aunt Tina (Lesley Ann Warren) and Uncle Matty (Dennis Hopper. Yup.). Tommy joins the Marines, gets thrown in the brig, and the Feds want to make a deal with him to turn in a big mafia guy, to save his cousin (Ribisi) to whom he is very close, and his brother.
This movie was very miscast. It's too bad. I really like Giovanni, but it seemed like he was doing an impression on Robert De Niro. Boy, what a head of hair on that kid! What can I say, I love the greasy look. Lesley Ann Warren. I really just don't like her. Val Kilmer has a cameo in this too, and he's terrible. Poor guy, he's desperate for work.
A couple actors were actually worth watching.
Brad Renfro as Vincent, Tommy's younger brother. He is sort of slow, and while his brother has been in Iraq he started in the family business. He really wants to prove himself, and Renfro did a great job. Look for him, he's going to be good with some time.
Also Piper Perabo is the Girl Around the Way that they all grew up with. She played something like a poor mans J-Lo, but she was refreshing to watch. You may know her best from Coyote Ugly. She did some good drama, and I'll be watching out for more of her as well.
Last, a surprising yet short role for Tommy Lee. No kidding. He played a mob guy that was really stupid.
The top quote is directed to him actually. I was happy for him! He did some great comic relief for the film. You go, Tommy.
As good as these few actors were, it wasn't enough to hold the movie. It was a drug/crime/mafia movie and it didn't even have a good times montage! Those are gold to me. For me you could make a whole 3 hour mafia movie with only good times montages, and a just a 10 minute finale of gunfire and violence, and I'm happy.
I know we have all had the TV movie or show that is terrible, but for some reason you just have to finish it, right? For me I got really stuck on this cheap TV movie with Stefanie Powers called Deceptions. I was tired and latched on to it, and for the life of me, I had to finish it before going to bed. The same syndrome occur ed with this one too.
Who knows why we do that?
From the same writer of Crash, comes the true story of 10th & Wolf. I thought that would give it a little credit. Tommy played by James Marsden (Who by the way is really going bald! I guess the X-Men set can afford to cover that up, but there may not have been the budget in this one for some hair flocking.). Tommy comes from a "connected" family. Parents are dead, so he and his younger brother are raised by his Aunt Tina (Lesley Ann Warren) and Uncle Matty (Dennis Hopper. Yup.). Tommy joins the Marines, gets thrown in the brig, and the Feds want to make a deal with him to turn in a big mafia guy, to save his cousin (Ribisi) to whom he is very close, and his brother.
This movie was very miscast. It's too bad. I really like Giovanni, but it seemed like he was doing an impression on Robert De Niro. Boy, what a head of hair on that kid! What can I say, I love the greasy look. Lesley Ann Warren. I really just don't like her. Val Kilmer has a cameo in this too, and he's terrible. Poor guy, he's desperate for work.
A couple actors were actually worth watching.
Brad Renfro as Vincent, Tommy's younger brother. He is sort of slow, and while his brother has been in Iraq he started in the family business. He really wants to prove himself, and Renfro did a great job. Look for him, he's going to be good with some time.
Also Piper Perabo is the Girl Around the Way that they all grew up with. She played something like a poor mans J-Lo, but she was refreshing to watch. You may know her best from Coyote Ugly. She did some good drama, and I'll be watching out for more of her as well.
Last, a surprising yet short role for Tommy Lee. No kidding. He played a mob guy that was really stupid.
The top quote is directed to him actually. I was happy for him! He did some great comic relief for the film. You go, Tommy.
As good as these few actors were, it wasn't enough to hold the movie. It was a drug/crime/mafia movie and it didn't even have a good times montage! Those are gold to me. For me you could make a whole 3 hour mafia movie with only good times montages, and a just a 10 minute finale of gunfire and violence, and I'm happy.
I know we have all had the TV movie or show that is terrible, but for some reason you just have to finish it, right? For me I got really stuck on this cheap TV movie with Stefanie Powers called Deceptions. I was tired and latched on to it, and for the life of me, I had to finish it before going to bed. The same syndrome occur ed with this one too.
Who knows why we do that?
1 comments:
Hi Tav:
Nice review. I felt the film was so blah. Nothing new here.
I gotta admit though that I thought Ribisi's performance was exceptional. I really enjoyed his bit and held me throughout the moview.
How about the Junior character played by Dash Mihok? I thought it was an effectively creepy portrayal.
Good reviews, I refer to them often.
Glenn
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