Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Catch .44

A trio of sexy bad girls gets one last chance to make good to their boss for botching their last assignment. All they have to do is wait at a roadside cafĂ©, intercept a drug deal and bring both the drugs and the money back to their boss. Before you can say “I know what’s going to happen” the girls’ plan goes horribly wrong and the bodies start piling up behind the diner counter. Directed by Aaron Harvey (The Evil Woods), this slick little thriller is filled with lots of well-staged action, but it’s the crazy characters doing all the killing that make watching it such a blast. Oddly enough, the girls are pretty generic and bring little to the film but hot bodies and an attempt at a bad attitude. It’s the guys who make it work, particularly Forest Whitaker as the hit man that’s more than a few cards short of a full deck, and a delightfully slovenly Bruce Willis as the pecan-munching gangster behind it all.

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