Movie Overview
Slim, Otis, Frank and Alex (three boys and a girl)
form a group of snowboard and skate young bank robbers. They are known
as masters of the runaway art. Slim, the thinking head hatched a ...
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Director:
Gérard Pirès (as Gerard Pires)Writers:
Mark Ezra (adaptation), Mark Ezra | 1 more credit »Stars:
Natasha Henstridge, Stephen Dorff, Bruce Payne | See full cast & crew »
Slim, Otis, Frank and Alex (three boys and a girl) form a group of
snowboard and skate young bank robbers. They are known as masters of the
runaway art. Slim, the thinking head hatched a plan for their final
retirement: five consecutive burglars, in five days, involving 20
million dollars. But this time, they're gonna have to face both the
police - and the mafia! Written by
Anonymous
verything
about this movie is geared towards the cool visuals which means the
editing and cinematography and stunts are excellent to the detriment of
everything else , it's almost like a recruiting advert for bank robbery
done in a comic book manner with no characterisation , minimalist
dialogue and some atrocious acting The cast ? OMG the cast . You know when you watch a Hollywood movie and it's the Brits who give the best performances ? Well here it's the other way round with Bruce Payne and Steven Berkoff heads and shoulders below everybody else . Berkoff especially is stand out in his awfulness and considering the poor performances all round he should be ashamed of himself , it's amazing this guy is still allowed an Equity card
The whole screenplay is written around the spectacular set pieces and to be fair the editing and cinematography do make them spectacular but there's too much gaps in logic involved which makes an unlikely story even more dumb . Without giving too much away one heist involves a freelancer getting very naughty which means the team ( Who are portrayed as being self righteously opposed to killing ) leave this guy to his fate by escaping but they do so in a ridiculous manner which meant if the goon had behaved himself they would still have left him via this method . What sort of morality is this ? Did the writers think no one would have noticed ?
Not really worth your time watching except for the stunts or unless you're addicted to the MTV channels
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