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The Delivery

The Delivery

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Features:
  • Color
  • Closed-captioned
  • Widescreen
  • Dolby


Description:

What an amazing collection of delicious foreign accents! Three friends (a Dutch couple, Alfred and Anna, and their British chum, Guy) find themselves in debt to a nasty loan shark named Spike and foolishly decide to get in trouble with a nastier drug dealer to raise money. Spike insists that they take a cargo of Xstacy from Amsterdam to Barcelona--but on the way, to prove they aren't getting into trouble, Alfred and Guy have to stop at preassigned phone booths and check in; and if they don't, Anna (who's being held hostage) will die. The Delivery wants to be a preposterous hybrid of Pulp Fiction and Run Lola Run, and comes pretty close to succeeding. The plot is nonsense, but that's not the point--the point is wicked images like the scar down the face of Spike's Japanese henchman or the Volkswagen Beetle that comes toppling off of a bridge onto the road below; hilarious ideas like a terrorist organization trying to stop European unification; and off-kilter moments like when Guy and svelte blonde former terrorist Loulou flirt by arguing about the virtues of different guns. The Delivery is loopy, almost campy, but held together by some jagged, propulsive editing, a crackling electronic soundtrack, and a very attractive cast of unknown European actors. --Bret Fetzer
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