Hard Cash

Rating:
Summary: Time to make the donuts
Review: Thieves steal $2 million of marked money and become involved with crooked FBI agent Val Kilmer. Cristian Slater plays chief thief who must foil Kilmer's plans and save his daughter.
HARD CASH is pretty dreadful. How dreadful? It was originally released as RUN FOR THE MONEY. Films don't change their titles for nothing.
The acting is okay, but there are a half-dozen or so too many why-are-we-doing-this scenes. The usually reliable Val Kilmer walks through the movie with a dazed and confused expression on his face. Slater is a little bit more on top of things, but he's saddled with a wise beyond her years daughter who doubles as a card sharp and is forced to read lines like "I just can't live like this anymore." Not your typical eight-year-old declaration.
Granted, not many movies have dart gun toting midgets crawling out of toilets, but that happens before the opening credits are run. After that it's all downhill. Pass this one by.

Rating:
Summary: Time to make the donuts
Review: Thieves steal $2 million of marked money and become involved with crooked FBI agent Val Kilmer. Cristian Slater plays chief thief who must foil Kilmer's plans and save his daughter.
HARD CASH is pretty dreadful. How dreadful? It was originally released as RUN FOR THE MONEY. Films don't change their titles for nothing.
The acting is okay, but there are a half-dozen or so too many why-are-we-doing-this scenes. The usually reliable Val Kilmer walks through the movie with a dazed and confused expression on his face. Slater is a little bit more on top of things, but he's saddled with a wise beyond her years daughter who doubles as a card sharp and is forced to read lines like "I just can't live like this anymore." Not your typical eight-year-old declaration.
Granted, not many movies have dart gun toting midgets crawling out of toilets, but that happens before the opening credits are run. After that it's all downhill. Pass this one by.

Rating:
Summary: Lacks a sense of style...
Review: This so-so DTV flick starring surprisingly big names like Christian Slater, Val Kilmer, Verne Troyer, and Daryl Hannah somehow manages to deliver very little out of its premise and makes little use of its capable cast. The plot skips from one heist failure to another, but delivers little in the way of action or witty dialogue. Val Kilmer is given little to do as our bad guy and Christian Slater isn't cool enough as the good guy. The film suffers from a poor script and horrendously uninspired directing. Watching it is kind of like watching someone go through their morning routine. It does all it needs to do, but doesn't add anything interesting. What this movie needs is a better script and cooler music. The movie, however, isn't bad enough to get the dreaded one star rating.

Rating:
Summary: Disappointment
Review: When I saw the cover, I thought to myself, "Why haven't I ever heard of this movie?". Now I know why. I was hoping that it would be an action packed thriller. Christian Slater and Bokeem Woodbine were both in "3000 Miles to Graceland. Despite getting slammed by the critics, I thought it was a good movie and was hoping this might be similar. Slater and Val Kilmer were both in "True Romance", which happens to be one of my favorites. My hopes were extremely high. To say I was disappointed, would be an understatement. The dialogue was hokey, the car scenes were hilarously bad, and the movie in general is awful. Do NOT buy this movie, do NOT rent it, and your time would be wasted if you watched it anywhere. I own a pretty good size DVD collection and this is one movie I feel embarrassed to admit I bought. I can't even find someone to pay to take it off my hands. You have been warned.