FlashCallahan
A bank robbery quickly becomes fatally chaotic as one of the hostages is a serial killer. Trapping the bank robbers in the building, the killer starts to pick them off one by one....That unwritten rule of replacing an actor with Nicolas Cage is so relevant for a film like this. And although Rollins is really good, it's a case of great concept, shame about the film.So we have Rollins as this serial killer who collects his victims eyes, because god told him to, and he's been keeping them in a safety deposit box in a bank that is closing.And before his eyes, the place gets held up by a bunch of amateurs who have inside information that there is a large quantity of bonds in the vault.No sooner than the police get on the scene, we are treated to a plethora of bad CG gunfire and blood, and this is where the film fails on most levels.If it focused more on the concept, rather than the banter between criminal and the law, and not throwing in a gangster-esque subplot, it could have been a decent enough B-movie horror.But the film makers think that we need to hear the rag tag group argue with each other throughout the film, because Reservoir Dogs is brilliant isn't it?Yes, it's a groundbreaking piece of work that has been copied more times than a child copying a dog, and each new 'homage' just becomes more and more mundane.Rollins never really gets going until well into the third act, and by then, because of all the worthless wordplay between everyone else, you kind of make him the protagonist.No disrespect to Rollins, but if Cage was in his role, it would have been a different film, and would have given him the chance to turn up to 11.all in all, it's a pretty wasted opportunity for such a good concept...
Andy Edwin Nystrom
This is one of those movies that's hard to rate because on a storytelling level it's really bad, but for that very reason it's highly entertaining. Chock full of so bad it's good moments. Before things go south the killer manages to intimidate a woman into butting in line to use a safety deposit box, right in front of a guard and the manager. A robber frisks a woman for a phone but doesn't check her back pocket. A robber manages to fight energetically while bleeding out. At a point where the robbers know there's a serial killer roaming around, a robber agrees to take an old lady to the bathroom, thus separating them. A robber steps outside while the police are there and isn't immediately arrested. There's a still-working elevator that's been walled off. And I haven't even gotten to the twists that happen near the end. Other than it being way too recent to be in the public domain, it would be a perfect movie for Mystery Science Theater 3000. Get a group of friends together and have fun riffing on this.
