I just caught this rubbish on BBC1, and it was titled Steal. The plot concerns a group of hip young dudes who embark on a bank robbing spree to fund their early retirement (sounds like a good plan.) The first heist goes a little too well and soon they have problems with the cops and some annoyed gangsters all looking to get in on the action. This is all utterly predictable, and we can see the inevitable double crosses coming a mile away. Rest assured if you haven't seen a hundred films with the same plot, the makers of the film certainly did. The characters' are never really fleshed out, so we don't really care what happens to them or particularly want them to come out on top in the end. Along the way, our main dude Dorff gets it on with (it's your turn to be)Natasha Hestridge(tonight) playing a cardboard feisty police detective, which provides the only real volatility in the story. It's one of those films where the actors are more or less just doing impersonations of characters from similar, but much cooler films.
The whole thing is shot with a weird sepia filter that made me want adjust the hue on my projector all the time, and a lot of the actors seemed to have re-dubbed their dialogue to sound more menacing (tho unfortunately not Berkoff, who's southern state American accent is a bit of a joke.) That said the music score was pretty cool.
But never mind all this, the only reason to watch is the car chases and big bangs. I think the whole thing was edited by the stunt drivers union, with a lot of holes in the plot, scenes too short to maintain any tension, and probably more chases than were absolutely necessary...possibly the studio wanted Taxi 2 from the director, but this ain't it.
The whole thing is shot with a weird sepia filter that made me want adjust the hue on my projector all the time, and a lot of the actors seemed to have re-dubbed their dialogue to sound more menacing (tho unfortunately not Berkoff, who's southern state American accent is a bit of a joke.) That said the music score was pretty cool.
But never mind all this, the only reason to watch is the car chases and big bangs. I think the whole thing was edited by the stunt drivers union, with a lot of holes in the plot, scenes too short to maintain any tension, and probably more chases than were absolutely necessary...possibly the studio wanted Taxi 2 from the director, but this ain't it.