a5c7b9f00b Hardened criminals Thomas J. Murphy and Michael Zane lead a gang of five using an Elvis impersonators conventioncover to violently rob the Riviera Casino. The others get eliminated either during the heist or infighting (allegedly?) over the way to divide the loot and launder it. Zane returns to the desert rat hole &#39;last Chance&#39; sleazy diner run by divorced Cybil Waingrow, who makes a second income of seducing and robbing men with and for her smart cheeky rascal Jesse. Once she knows about the laundering, Cybil dumps Jesse of Zane so she can try to steal it, but Murphy, who already left a bloody trail including dead cops, recruits a new team, just like the police. Fortunes and betrayal keep shifting while the victims pile up. It was an ingenious enough plan: rob the Riviera Casino&#39;s count room during an Elvis impersonator convention. But Thomas Murphy decided to keep all the money for himself and shot all his partners, including recently-freed ex-con Michael Zane. With $3.2 million at stake, the Marshals Service closing in, and single mom Cybil Waingrow and her son Jesse constantly confounding things, Michael must track down Murphy. I was wondering, after finishing this film, how this laughable movie ever got made. I thought about the premise, and how if pitched, would sound like a very interesting and promising one. That&#39;s probably what sold such name talentKevin Costner and Kurt Russell to do it, because it never could have been Demian Lichtenstein&#39;s previous directorial effort, Lowball. The performances all around, but especially Courteney Cox&#39;s are forgettable at best. Demian rips off so many movie genre set pieces you can&#39;t tell whether he&#39;s trying to make a drama, a buddy-movie, a western, an Elvis spoof, or a comedy (too many varieties represented here)… it all comes together in a mish-mash of bad dialogue, horrible camera composition (especially the gratuitous dutch-angle from underneath the bedsomeone leaves the room shot), bad photography (costner and the biker scene - could the cinematographer tell what time of day it was?), and your everyday MTV style editing (a cover up, i assure you)… Avoid this movie if you can, I wouldn&#39;t even recommend it if you&#39;re stuck on an airplane and there&#39;s nothing else to watch… I seen this movie last saturday with my girlfriend - fortunately she staid - I truly enjoyed - one has never seen Kevin Costner so cool, so bad, so sick, so violent, so asskicking - great action, great violence, great movie !!!<br/><br/>Every kind of artillery is used in all kinds of environments - it starts with a Matrix-style robbery and turns into some kind of roadmovie with a massive ending. An odd mix of seediness, sideburns and even scorpions, the movie nearly matches the Lisa Marie-Michael Jackson marriage for weirdness.
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