Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead (DVD)

Things to do in Denver when you’re dead: 1 Organise roadside ambush. 2 Try to cover up the botched job. 3 Avoid being hunted down by the hitmen. 4 Start a family. 5 Die. Quite a list, eh? Well Jimmy ‘the Saint’ (Andy Garcia) certainly has a lot to do in this brutal gangster movie. I’m about to reveal a bit more about the plot, so if you don’t want to know it, skip the next section (it shouldn’t spoil the movie though). ************************************************* ...
...running round trying to patch things up - tying up several loose strings in his life (including an affair, with Dagney (Gabrielle Anwar), and relationship with a hooker, Lucinda (Fairuza Balk)) and protecting his friends. ************************************************* It ’s a brutal violent gangster film, in the mould of Reservoir Dogs (and featuring Steve Buscemi (Mr Pink) as Mr Shhh, a hitman). There’s plenty of guns and blood, I lost count ...

a-true-ben 12.03.2005 (21.03.2005) · Read full review
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On its original release, Things to do... was unfairly written off as another Reservoir Dogs-Pulp Fiction rip off. The reviewers at the time thought they saw another movie in which another bunch of sharp-suited guys botch yet another heist. Watching this soft-edged thriller again four years later, you get the impression that those critics wrote their reviews on what they saw on the poster. For the record, there's only one sharp suit - the one worn ...
...perform the little favour. Naturally, things go horribly wrong when Critical Bill (Treat Williams) ends up firing shots, and the couple end up dead. The Man isn't too pleased, declaring the gang 'buckwheats', despatching almost invincible hitman Mr Ssssh (Steve Buscemi) to take out the gang. There is a sense of overwhelming sadness as Jimmy and his group gradually succumb to the higher criminal powers, led by Christopher Walken. A man who has made ...

Plissken 16.01.2001 (11.01.2001) · Read full review
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Things to do in Denver when you're dead is an on the run film that follows the format of any other run of the mill film. One does not watch this movie for the plot but for the sheer enjoyment of the characters... what's wrong with that? The characters are each given their own personality and cool nicknames and to watch them interact within the film is entertainment enough. The film is jammed packed with well known actors, which would make one assume ...
...it was just created to make money. But that none of that is true and to the viewer it seems that the film was just created so that all of these talented actors could have a little fun and they do causing the audience to join in on the fun. Despite the almost melodramatic and depressing title the film ends with just enough to let the audience feel good. Though they don't remember exactly what happened in the plot they know that they had fun. ...

wafflejr 25.02.2009 · Read full review
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