Um...okay. This I guess is supposed to be one of those quickly little indy films, but it isnt that quirky or that interesting. It certainly ain't FARGO (although the dvd cover I saw tried to compare it to Fargo). But it has a pretty good cast -- Meredith Monroe (Dawson's Creek, Criminal Minds), Melora Walters (Big Love), DW Moffett (Friday Night Lights), Gil Bellows (Ally McBeal), William Atherton (Die Hard, Real Genius, Ghostbusters and more), Charles Napier and more. Now sure, none of them are big name actors but all are very steady working Hollywood actors. So how did the movie get all of them for this quirky indy film? I wish I knew.
The story: a man is found dead in a local diner with his stomach full of rat poison. The local shariff investigates and everyone in that small town had a connection to the victim and has something to hide.
So how was it?
Um...not good. The dvd cover compares it to FARGO, but it's not anywhere near that league. I'd try to give a better description, but this movie just didn't grab my attention. Where FARGO was quirky and interesting, this was just people standing around yapping. There was nothing really funny or interesting, either in the characters or the plot. And there are a lot of character -- the shariff is investigating, there's the murdered man, there's a couple women who are involved, there's another big guy who is brought in to "clean things up" and all of them are part of a plot or scheme with boxes and Mexico...probably drugs, right?...but there's almost never any motivation or anything to make the characters stand out. It's a lot of indirect talk to sustain the mystery of something that wasn't that interesting.
*** AVOID ***
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