bob the moo In a small town, deputy's Booth Parker and Earl Whitney are looking for a missing dog when they come across a drug deal which has gone wrong. They find over a million dollars in one of the cars and, with everyone of the criminals dead, they decide to keep it. One criminal is still alive and Earl kills him to cover their tracks. However the next day Agent Ellen Marks arrives in the town to investigate further as one of the `criminals' was an undercover DEA agent who had not only told his superiors about the money in the car, but was also wearing a tape recorder on the job. As they try to cover their tracks, Booth and Earl's simple plan gets more and more out of control.The plot will be familiar to anyone who has seen more than a few movies in their life! The most recent comparison will the Rami's A Simple Plan, but there are plenty of films where the plot is, in essence the same as this. However this is not a problem if it is done well, the aforementioned film was very enjoyable and delivered well. However Route 9 feels tired and old before it even really gets started. The basic plot is OK but it is never really as tense as it could have been, at some points the twists that are introduced to keep the main characters in a state of flux are a little too much and the web becomes more tangled rather than ensnaring.The film doesn't really develop the characters beyond what we expect from them. Instead of them being real people they are simply the type of characters one would expect to find in this type of film – this takes away from the film as it never got me on that level. The cast do average work though despite this. MacLachlan is pretty good in the lead and does have to carry the film's moral centre, Williams has it easy as the reckless side. Support from names such as Coyote, Maffia, Sandoval etc is all OK but no one really manages to rise above the material.Overall it is not a bad film in itself. However the problem is that it doesn't seem to want to distinguish itself in any way. It takes a familiar story line, fills it with characters who will be known to everyone as they are so thinly developed so as to be types rather than people and lets the action go just where you knew it would. Passable but this has been done much better than this.

jean-no Two policemen discover men dead after a gunfight. There is money too. Lots of. And drug. What would you do, keep it, leave it ? The dead ones don't need money and they were drug dealers so would it be stealing ? Of course the two men steal the money, and hide it, and they swear they'll forget all about it for a while. Of course, there are some evidences, of course there is a federal agent who thinks that there is money missing... The situation will get worse and worse until the end. If you've seen "a simple plan", from Sam Raimi, you'll notice both movies have quite the same plot. Funny : both movies came out in 1998, it was in the air... But one of these two movies is very good, and it is not "route 9". Sorry for the work, for the actors - not bad actually - sorry every body, this movie is not a masterpiece. At all.

Jack the Ripper1888 This was a very well made TV movie.*POSSIBLE SPOILERS* It is more than just your usual car chase movie taking place on the Western frontier. This movie follows two sheriff's deputies as they stumble upon a drug deal gone bad. They then decide to take a large sum of money that they find on the scene, but complications arise when a Federal Detective steps in and tries to find out what really happened. There aren't really any famous actors who play in this film. The biggest one would have to be Peter Coyote as the town's sheriff who is having marital problems. ROUTE 9 is one of the best made for TV movies that I have ever seen. More complications arise when the two deputies discover that one of the men killed at the site was an undercover agent (Silas Weir Mitchell) for the government...and he was still alive when they stole the money, and he had a recording device attached to his shoulder. This makes matters worse. Christopher Murray even has a part in the beginning as the ring-leader of the drug dealers. ROUTE 9 is a superior TV movie. I give it the TV movie award of excellence. Just playing. But for being a TV movie, this one wasn't bad. Let's see what else they got at Hollywood. 5/5.

romar-2 Violent and funny--think "Fargo" in California and on a budget. Loved Roma Maffia as a Federal investigator--the only intelligent person in town.