Dangerous quagmire A little-known crime drama in which its director managed to somehow miraculously lure two famous actors - Sticky Fingaz and Michael Madsen. And in fact, only fans of these performers, she will not be indifferent.
Speech in the film about a guy who managed to touch the interests of an influential man (Michael Madsen), entangled in a dark story with drugs and a gang showdown. Miraculously surviving the shootout, the hero, along with his girlfriend, decides to escape from the city, going on the run. But no one has been able to get away with serious problems so easily.
Anyone who reads the description of this plot will immediately pop up in his head more than a dozen similar paintings and this is not surprising, because he is really banal to madness. To revive anything worn-out topic, the author of the tape, it seems just as banal nothing, and the budget is not able to help something surprise. Of course, there can be no question of any competition with paintings that have more impressive data in terms of viability.
Having a short time of duration, the action of the plot seems to oblige to its rapid and cheerful development, but after the first 30 minutes, as if against everything and everything for evil, it is slowed down to unimaginable slowness. However, the slowness of the narrative is not the last cranberry, much more overshadowed by the ragged timing, which after the recently mentioned tolerable introductory half hour, turns the film into not a film at all, but porridge from a set of steep scenes. They are also incomprehensible.
So, for example, the director, he is also part-time performer of the main role, can demonstrate how his hero basks in bed with his girlfriend, as in the next moment, he is unknown where and do not understand why. All this is also shot with the help of the most ordinary home camera and you do not need to be a filmmaker to understand it. All the roughness, the ever-shaking camera, are themselves striking, without any deliberate consideration.
Of course, such a pseudo-documentary picture is not a reason to brand it a failure, the world is full of outstanding cinema created in a similar way - cheap and angry. But only in this case, such an effect, except for the feeling of an amateur video, does not promise anything else.
The role of Michael Madsen, consists of periodic appearances, you can even say insertions between the main action, in which without a phone tube, he does not appear. In all his episodes, Michael is constantly talking to someone, allegedly solving serious issues. Despite the fact that he is not given much screen time, the actor did not bother to squeeze everything possible out of him and, like all his roles of the last decade, worked lazily and unexpressively.
As always, I was pleased with Sticky Fingaz, who played the hero’s friend, undoubtedly his game, the best that is in the asset of this production. About the performers of the central duo, I can not say anything specific, and nothing. But not because they are unknown to anyone, just did not manifest themselves in anything, and therefore did not deserve special attention.
5 out of 10