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Posted Wed, 21 Feb 2001
| Our Rating |  |
| Reviewer | Jacqui Thompson |
| Rated | 13 LV |
| Running Time | 119 mins |
| Starring | Jamie Foxx, David Morse, Robert Pastorelli, Doug Hutchison |
| Screenplay | Andrew Scheinman, Adam Scheinman |
| Director | Antoine Fuqua |
| Website | www.warnerbros.com |
| Movie Details | The Internet Movie Database |
Heads up! This is a surprisingly entertaining and enjoyable action-packed movie. The pace is fast and furious throughout and the opening sequence alone will have you holding your breath and scrunching down in your seat.
The movie does not have the normal huge Hollywood action stars pulling in gazillions of dollars for their grunts, groans and tortured faces (Bruce Willis, Arnie baby, Wesley Snipes et al) but it does have everything else to make it a credible and entertaining action movie worthy of going to see.
Comedian Jamie Foxx (recently seen on our television screens in the Jamie Foxx Show) plays Alvin Sanders, a not-too bright petty thief who is always ready with a quip or improvisation. Foxx is funny, quick and did a lot of ad-libbing, deviating from the script to bring his own brand of wacky humour to his role and the situations his character Sanders finds himself in.
Sanders spends a few hours in a cell with the captured, and soon to be deceased, member of a two-man team that has stolen $42-million in gold from the Federal Reserve. Sanders is released by a hard-nosed and morally bankrupt US Treasury Investigator Clenteen (a total role-turnabout for David Morse after his role in The Green Mile as a compassionate guard) not knowing that the Feds have set him up as bait to draw out the other felon, a far more sinister and cruel character played by Doug Hutchinson.
Huchinson does a perfect copy of villains played by John Malkovich. Bristol is a soft-spoken, geeky looking, criminal mastermind with an extended vocabulary who never loses his cool or raises his voice; he always maintains a veneer of civility. Clenteen and his hi-tech team have to baby-sit the bait and keep Sanders alive, out of jail and relatively injury-free despite himself, until the gold thief and murderer appears. This includes making sure the ex-con has money and stays on the straight and narrow. As Sanders is a crook with a heart of gold who just happened to wander from the right path in pursuit of prawns, one can’t help but hope that this live bait will survive, get the gold, his girl back and be a good role model for his son.
Although the movie can only be classified as light entertainment, it will easily hold your attention for two hours as it is well made, well acted, funny and fast and as long as you believe electronic equipment responds to a good thump, completely plausible.
