.45 (2007)
Kate and her brutish boyfriend Big Al sell handguns on the streets of New York. She's smart, stylish, and self-confident, but all that leaves her when Al, in a jealous and self-indulgent rage, beats her. Three friends encourage her recovery: Vic, a woman who would like to be Kate's lover; Reilly, who runs with Al but also is attracted to Kate and repulsed by Al's violence; and, Liz, the counselor assigned to Kate from a battered-women's program. Vic and Reilly talk about killing Al, Liz gives pep talks; Kate remains frightened. Will Al's menace and Kate's dependency hold sway?
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An Exercise In Nonsense
Admirable film.
As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
While .45 features some passable performances from its cast and an okay storyline it's far from being masterfully made. The main problem for me mostly is the dialog that gives you the impression that Gary Lennon was trying to craft a Martin Scorcese style film featuring a lot of uses of the "F" word and a lot of vulgar language which easily offends the everyday sensitive viewer. But for myself who looked at the film without finding anything about it offensive the real problem with the dialog is it's both extremely repetitive and boring. A common problem with just about every film with a dialog that could very well be an encyclopedia of swearing.The second problem are the characters, I never really grew to care about any of them as sometimes through the course of the film they just seemed stupid. Like the main character Kat, played by Milla Jovovich who stands out the most, she's smart enough to plot revenge but not smart enough to avoid a guy like Big-Al (Angus Macfadyen) who pounds her to a pulp altogether.Final Verdict, This film is really not as good as people have been saying despite the cast giving passable performances, the main problems are the repetitive and boring dialog and the uninteresting characters.
I just found out this is from the same guy that wrote drunks!! That was an awesome movie!!!! I've always been a huge Mila Jovovich fan, so would that make me bias to say she did an awesome job??? This was totally gritty, raw and real... It was like an "east Coast" Charles Bukowski story. Its like turning the villains into the hero's, kinda a unique twist on the situation!!! Life in the fast lane, thats for damn sure!! I would definitely recommend Drunks too!!!.45 definitely comes highly recommended if you haven't seen it already... Why cant the rest of Hollywood write like this guy??? They could all learn something!!!
Kat (Milla Jovovich) and Big Al (Angus Macfayden) are two small time crooks and dealers living the love in Brooklyn. With the animal attraction between them the sex is good. But Al isn't a decent guy - picking up chicks left and right, even school girls giving him some head, cursing a lot, gulping litres of alcohol and with a very short fuse. Worst of all he has a tendency to beat up on Kat. Bisexual Vic (Sarah Strange) and small time auto thief Reilly (Stephen Dorff) are both in love with Kat and go a long way to declare this love, including promising to kill off Big Al. But their bark is much worse than their bite... .45 has one essential flaw that prevents this movie from achieving anything - a total lack of focus. Even though most actors (with Macfayden especially apt for the part and Mila Jovovich being hit and miss with a bad accent opposite several tremendous scenes) do a bang up job throughout the movie they are unable to push through the lack of directorial vision. This jumbled mess of a movie, which has no idea whether it intends to be "Monster", "Barfly" or "Cruel Intentions", decides to mix them all together to mold out a dud.The movie has some memorable stuff with the scene, where Al beats up Kat especially engrossing, even if frightening. Up until this point I really had my hopes high for this movie, but then it went sorely downhill... Instead of focusing on the psychological aspects of the situation the movie took a weird and laughable turn into a revenge flick. The less said the better...Not entirely a waste of time, but this .45 is 3/4 full of blanks.
This is a superb adult drama.Every character in the movie is repulsive in their own way but hugely convincing and totally pivotal to the story. This is a intense drama about how a woman tormented by abuse seeks out her revenge.The play rages with raw language, unpleasant action and rough sex; it is brutal, nasty and real.All the actors give brilliant performances and the director and producers ought to be congratulated for giving us some reality.Deserves very high marks:9/10.