Another movie I was not planning on seeing, but IMDb gave a pretty good ratng and it turned out quite good. As ChemChampion points out, the leading actor is played by the guy from Fast and Furious and other horrible flicks, but if Ashton Kutcher could do so well in The Butterfly Effect, maybe they were just actors that haven’t been given the opportunity to “perform” yet. Anyway, the overall storyline is Joey trying to retrieve a gun, or he’s dead.
Official Site
IMDb: 7.4/10 (8,912 votes)
Yahoo! Movies: The Critics: C- / Yahoo! Users: B
Rotten Tomatoes: Rating: 39% / Average Rating: 4.5/10
Apple Trailer
Amazon.com DVD
Amazon.com Soundtrack
Spoilers: (Show)
It’s rather simple that Joey’s a undercover agent. First off, the don’t stop saying so in the trailer. Second, when you find out that he’s hiding all the guns in zip lock bags and not discarding them, you know something’s fishy.
The real story begins when the next door neighbor steals one of the guns and shoots his abusive father. Joey was told to discard those guns earlier in the day. Now he has to get back every bullet and retrieve the gun, while getting the kids story straight. He spends the rest of the movie trying to do that. That kid just gets into a ton of trouble, but always seems to be saved. Though the premise doesn’t sound that exciting, it really is and the cinematography was just superb.
There’s really no point in telling the ending, though I was surprised by the way it ended. It brought up an interesting point. If I was an undercover, and it was later revealed that it was me, how am I protected from future retribution against me? In this movie, the faked his death/funeral, but what really happens in real life?
