Hello folks. Welcome to the Fusion of
Film week...which sounds better than saying Grab Bag yet again. This
time around I will be bouncing around from various genre of film and
film only. I know that sounds a bit limiting to not add TV or video
games but trust me you will enjoy it... or I will chase you down with
a clown hammer.
I bring you Peter O' Fallon.
This producer/director/writer brings everything to his work. Cutting
his teeth on Thirtysomething and Northern Exposure gave
him an experience dealing both Comedy and Drama which embraces so
many emotions to collect and work with. A former mob boss is
enjoying the spoils of retirement when he encounters four kids that
are interested in being around him and then... things get dicey.
This is Suicide Kings.
Eh, I've had stranger Saturday Nights. |
Charlie Barett (Christopher
Walken of The Deer Hunter, The Dogs of War, The Dead Zone, A View to
a Kill, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, The Prophecy and Last Man
Standing) heads to his private table in the restaurant seeing
a couple of kids in their twenties sitting at his table Avery (Henry
Thomas of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Cloak & Dagger, The Quest,
Valmont, Psycho IV: The Beginning, Legends of the Fall, Hijacking
Hollywood and Moby Dick) and Max (Sean Patrick Flanery
of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Powder, Eden, Pale Saints,
Suicide Kings, Simply Irresistible, The Boondock Saints, The
Insatiable, The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day and Saw 3D: The
Final Chapter) who apologize for snagging his table and ask
if he wants to have a night on the town with them and their buddy
Brett (Jay Mohr of Saturday Night Live, The Jeff Foxworthy
Show, Local Heroes, Jerry Maquire, 200 Cigarettes, Action, Ghost
Whisper and Saints Row 2) and they grab the check and get the
car.
So lemme do my Walken impression. |
The guys try to drug Charlie as he
kicks and squirms to get away, they almost wreck the car in the
process. Charlie wakes up duct taped to a chair as Brett explains
why he has been kidnapped while their buddy T.K. (Jeremy Sisto
of Hideaway, Clueless, White Squall, Now You Know, Thirteen, Wrong
Turn, Dead & Breakfast, Six Feet Under and Law & Order)
checking his vitals as they explain that Avery's sister was kidnapped
by a couple of loan sharks that have Avery's marker now want $2
million dollars. Between the guys they don't have it. Brett
explains that Charlie is also known as Carlo Bartolucci and $2 mil is
pocket change, not to mention his connections to the underworld to
find these bastards that snagged Avery's sister.
Charlie's bodyguard Lono (Dennis
Leary of Who's the Man?, Gunmen, Judgment Night, The Ref, Two If by
Sea, The Thomas Crown Affair, Ice Age, Rescue Me and The Amazing
Spider-Man) is pissed getting abducted and starts his own
investigation to find friends of Charlie that may know where he went
or where he might be. Hiding out at a buddy's house the fellas try
to keep it together but each of them are starting to have doubts on
this being a good idea... kidnapping a capo.
With the clock ticking, accusations
being thrown at one another, Charlie has the boys where he wants
them. Off their game and stalling them until Lono gets there and
then... all bets are off.
Folks, what can I say to improve this?
From hand held, car mounted some dolly
track work all this film is 35 mm in Spherical via Panavision
bringing some great looks to it. Leary is wonderful in this play a
mob lieutenant. Bitching and complaining about his wife having 300+
shoes when all he has is some running shoes, boots, basketball and
now these $1200 Stingray boots that she can't believe he wasted all
that money on and so on. Our kidnappers are character actors Frank
Medrano (The Shawshank Redemptionm The Usual Suspects,
Kissing a Fool and Sleepers) and Brad Garrett (Everybody
Loves Raymond, Superman: The Animated Series, Finding Nemo,
Ratatouille, 'Til Death and The Crazy Ones)
and I swear their characters are written as Heckel and Jeckel.
Still grumpy he had to give up smoking. |
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