Tom DeFelice WARNING!!!! SPOILER ALERT!!! If you are curious/interested in this movie...if there is some overwhelming reason why you want to see it (Xenia Seeberg of LEXX fame has a small part), do not read this review.I never give the surprise ending away. I detest people who do. But after spending 90 minutes watching this waste of time...(if it's called "80 minutes", why is it 90 minutes long?)...I am giving the ending away.SPOILER ALERT!!! The entire story is a birthday gag. The poison, the deaths, the entire tension of the film is a put on. There is no poison. The 15,000 debt has already been paid. No one dies. Everyone is in on the gag. It's all a birthday joke played on the main character. In the end they all hoist a pint in his honor.Arghhhh!!!!!!Don't waste your time. Stay away from this. You've been warned.

kwhp ..o.k., o.k., the "minutes" aspect of critiquing this film are growing tiresome. But, seriously, when I started viewing this movie, it became apparent that this was a dog. The characters were flat, stereotypical, and almost all (especially the protagonist) unlikeable.Another tipoff that the director has nothing to say is his reliance on gimmicks like the unfortunate tendency to film everything in jiggle-cam like the Bourne flicks with quick cutaways and too-tight face shots. The rancid colors tend to be off-putting as well.The whole effect was disagreeable bordering on the revolting -- and this accomplished with little or no gore.HYPER-SPOILER ALERT! So the protagonist owes a restaurateur friend fifteen large and he shows up to collect. The restaurateur/lender injects the protagonist with some Amazonian death drug that (of course) has been co-opted by the CIA, FBI, DIA, ATF, and other gratuitously mentioned evil government agencies and causes death in -- strangely enough -- eighty minutes. His mission is to come up with the money he owes in that time or else he will mysteriously die, the symptoms resembling a heart attack. Of course the evil lender has the antidote and will, upon being repaid the debt, provide it to the protagonist so that he can avert his grisly fate.Bam! Off he goes, scurrying around for a majority of the movie trying to put the touch on someone yet another loan to cover his debt.Of course this is shot at night, so there are no S&Ls or credit unions open at that hour and the guy does not own anything with any equity so a collateral loan is out of the question.But I digress.Anyway, he returns to his place (where the evil lender awaits) brandishing an automatic and informs him that he has located someone who will go his bail but, inexplicably, the antidote is denied him, the phial crashing on the floor.Presumably this dooms the hero who pumps a full clip into the lender with a conveniently placed stopwatch in the lower left hand corner of the screen ticking down to zero...but our hero does not die. All of this fades to black and white, the lights come up, a curtain raises, and out step all all of his friends (including the lender) who sing "happy birthday" to him as part of a macabre surprise party.Warm embraces, "I was just kidding's", and hearty handshakes, obligatory boogalooing, etc. abound as all is forgiven and the whole thing declared one damn fine joke! Were I the protagonist, I would have slammed another clip into the Glock and wasted as many of those cretins as I could.Oh yes, how to avoid wasting 80 minutes of your life aside from watching this dreadful movie? Well, I fast-forwarded through it.But you can just read this review and figure it out.

stingva22 Once you get past the heavy accents and clearly Non-American dialog/culture/license plate continuity problems...the story is grudgingly possible. That is assuming they were trying to make a story that was set in America. But if you're looking for goofy action this is it. However, just when I was starting to get interested in the moral issue of friends vs money at the end...there is a plot twist that really ticked me off. I wish that they'd spent just a little bit more time fleshing this out and it might have actually been a good renter.SPOILERIt was all a set up for his birthday party?!?!?! Really? Really.

petermoran84 It's so hard to sum up how bad this film is.The acting is abysmal, the dialogue incredibly weak, the storyline extremely dated and the final "twist" absolutely the worst moment of any film I've ever seen.The ending is actually so hilariously bad I suggest you watch it just to see how films shouldn't be made.It's a shame the voting only allows me to go as low as 1 out of 10 for this because even that is generous.Thomas Jahn is certainly not a writer/director I would be eager to see more from.