The film starts out a little contrived & keeps getting more so but if you can let go & go with the films plot that then you'll probably enjoy this movie.
It aims to give you twist & turns on the blackmail theme gone wrong with some quite funny results, most of the film is them trying not to go to jail as more & more go wrong. The strangest thing in this film is Simon Pegg doing an American accent, it doesn't really work & it took me quite a while to forget it was him & concentrate on the actual character. Once you do that he is pretty funny but this is no Shaun of the Dead.
The best scene is in Reverend Smalls house where they go to collect the money & how everything goes totally wrong in a short while & the film actually becomes funny. Natascha McElhone is good but very under used in the film, the relationship with David Schwimmer doesn't have enough screen time so you don't feel his motivation for him to want the money so bad just to look after them really works.
The film dips in the middle but ends pretty well with almost everyone getting what they deserve.
It aims to give you twist & turns on the blackmail theme gone wrong with some quite funny results, most of the film is them trying not to go to jail as more & more go wrong. The strangest thing in this film is Simon Pegg doing an American accent, it doesn't really work & it took me quite a while to forget it was him & concentrate on the actual character. Once you do that he is pretty funny but this is no Shaun of the Dead.
The best scene is in Reverend Smalls house where they go to collect the money & how everything goes totally wrong in a short while & the film actually becomes funny. Natascha McElhone is good but very under used in the film, the relationship with David Schwimmer doesn't have enough screen time so you don't feel his motivation for him to want the money so bad just to look after them really works.
The film dips in the middle but ends pretty well with almost everyone getting what they deserve.