Mad Dog Time (aka Trigger Happy)

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Summary: A Healthy Mix...
Review: I rented this in VHS format years ago after seeing a trailer for it on a movie I owned. (After seeing the trailer 10 times I finally remembered to look for it at the video store). It wasn't anything like I expected it to be, but I loved it.

In fact, I bought the VHS. It was too expensive to purchase retail (price was close to $100), but I was lucky and found it at a second-hand movie/music store. (bought it for $6.00 Candadian). I have since worn it out and plan to buy the DVD.

The cast obviously had fun making this movie. I would recommend this to anyone who is a fan of any of the actors in this film.

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Summary: Dreyfuss, Goldblum & Byrne fans...see this movie!
Review: If you are a fan of any of these cast members, you MUST see this movie. If you are a Gabriel Byrne fan, BUY IT! This movie is dark comedy at it's best.

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Summary: Trigger Happy
Review: In general it was a real weird movie... sometimes hard to follow, if you miss something in it... confusing the first time viewed. But what I loved most about it was the brief part that Billy Idol played in it as "Lee Turner"!!

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Summary: Trigger Happy
Review: In general it was a real weird movie... sometimes hard to follow, if you miss something in it... confusing the first time viewed. But what I loved most about it was the brief part that Billy Idol played in it as "Lee Turner"!!

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Summary: great low-key comedy
Review: movies like this are really hard to describe.
people get 'rubbed out" and you love it. two of
my favorite actors-gabriel byrne and jeff goldblum-
do a geat job but the kudos have to go to the
writer and director of the film-larry bishop-who
also does a great job as a laconic hitman.

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Summary: Completely Awful (Which Is Why You Should See It!)
Review: One time a friend of mine asked me what kind of movie Ed Wood would have made if someone had given him a big budget and real movie stars to work with. (*Note: In case you just landed from Mars, Ed Wood was a B-movie filmmaker in the 1950s whose movies were completely and hilariously bad. "Plan Nine From Outer Space" was probably his most famous.) After seeing "Trigger Happy," I knew EXACTLY what kind of movie he would have made. Indeed I wonder if Larry Bishop (the writer and director of this opus) was posessed by Ed Wood's spirit at some time during the making of "Trigger Happy." I guess this was supposed to be some sort of satire on gangster films and "Rat Pack" machismo, but the premise is completely botched, the dialogue is mind-boggleingly awful, and all the famous actors (Richard Dreyfuss, Jeff Goldblum, Gregory Hines, and Burt Reynolds, just to name a few) look utterly lost. Thus, for those with a taste for high camp, I highly recommend this movie! In fact, this would make a great late-night companion piece to "Plan Nine From Outer Space." "Plan Nine" could be watched first for low-budget camp entertainment, and "Trigger Happy" could then be watched for high-budget camp entertainment.

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Summary: A wonderful Gem
Review: Sometimes you think a given genre is washed out. You think maybe they can make the movie better but not different. Then a title like this comes along. Trigger Happy is a movie unto itself. It's a gangster movie that pushes the entire genre into the realm of myth, but with the tongue at least lightly placed in the cheak. Here, the players and situations are archetypal to the point of flirting with self parody. The story begins a short while before Vic, the owner of a swanky nightclub, is due to be let out of a mental institution. Those vying for power or a piece of his empire must now make their move. Among the players is Kyle McLachlan, who rests his hopes on a quick hired gun. There is also Burt Reynolds and his boys, Michael J. Pollard, who's been running the club in Vic's absense and Gabriel Byrne who is supposed to be one of Vic's right hand men. There's more, but why spoil it. Suffice it to say you have a great ensemble cast including Jeff Goldblum, Diane Lane, Ellen Barkin, Gregory Heinz, Richard Dreyfuss and a small handfull of cameos. It's a nifty story, with nifty tough-guy padder. Babes, guns, double crosses and all around wonderful performances. If this played the theatres, I don't remember it and it's a shame. It's so much better than most of the flicks out there, I makes you wonder why MGM didn't get behind it. It's certainly worth the price of rental, and some will want to own it when it hits a sell-thru price.

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Summary: A Quirky, All-Star Piece Of [Expletive Deleted]
Review: Who writes the movie reviews they put on DVD covers? The sleazy, froglike creatures who work in the studios must have a system of kickbacks for their industry shills and PR hacks--a payola scheme like the one used in Top 40 radio to pump the careers of lip-synching teen sensations like Ashlee Simpson. The SFO Examiner called Mad Dog Time "a goofy, darkly comic gangster movie." Maxim called it "a quirky, all-star treat!" The truth is that this movie was unwatchable. It didn't work on so many levels that it broke into the fourth dimension of crap cinema. The suck factor was extreme and I turned it off after 20 minutes, but even then I could still hear the DVD slurping in its case and I could see it throbbing and wheezing like one of those evil cassettes in Videodrome. Don't watch this movie or it will give you a brain tumor. You have been warned.

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Summary: Don't walk... RUN away from this movie.
Review: Without a doubt, one of the worst films I've ever seen. Horribly bland script. No interesting plot twists. Incredibly stiff acting.

If you are highly entertained by seeing lots of A- and B-list actors walk around reading insipid lines and shooting each other, then this might be for you. But I doubt it.

Roger Ebert (who can hardly be considered a harsh critic) gave this film ZERO stars.

Horrible. Horrible. Horrible.



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Summary: to Brewsley
Review: You may not be a fan of Christopher Jones as I am but you have no right to "dog him" like that. You have got to realize all actors have good parts and bad parts in movies. This just wasn't the right part for him. Check him out in his earlier movies and you will see what I am talking about. Otherwise, leave the comments to somebody who knows what they are talking about. catfeb02