Time to review the 1992 crime drama "Sunset Grill" starring Peter Weller and Lori Sanger. The letterbox states, "For years private eye Ryder Hart lived on the edge. Tonight he'll cross the line."
Well...Ryder (Weller) crosses the line and in the process we're all witnesses to one of the most boring crime flicks on Planet Earth.
Peter Weller walks around for 90 minutes beat-up, bruised and bleeding like a mutt that's just been run over by a semi.
Lori Sanger looks like a wax mannequin at Tussaud's House of Horrors and her acting could be recreated in any viable sound software program.
Grill this one at sunset. I mean (to get to the point)...take the DVD and throw it into your barbecue grill as a flame starter.
Peter, whom I admired prior to this embarrassment, is no longer a "Weller" in my book...he's now a "Worser".
Atzecs?
Sunset Grill Nude scenes from three different women: Lori Singer, Alexandra Paul, Sandra Wild. All three actresses got naked, but in the case of Paul and Singer, the scenes were cut tastefully to avoid pubic exposure. In fact, Singer got up from one energetic love scene where the lovers were obviously in the later stages of intercourse, the director cut away too slowly, and you could see that she was wearing a thong!
As for the movie, well, let me tell you. In the Olympics they won't let a 150 pound man wrestle against a 170 pound man because it just isn't a fair match. But in the movies, one drunken stumblebum private eye armed with a BB gun can overcome all of the following:
1. Several corrupt INS officials
2. The Mexican border federales.
3. The world's richest man and several doctors, who are running a scam to use illegal immigrants as unwilling heart and liver donors.
4. The world's richest man's connections, which "go so high up the ladder God can't see the top"
5. Thugs who look like a cross between Dolph Lundgren and Andre the Giant, and are better armed than the Iraqi army.
6. Treacherous girlfriends.
7. Incompetent associates.
8. Sarcastic bartenders.
Very realistic movie.
Stacy Keach plays, or maybe I should say overplays, the world's richest man, and he says that ripping hearts out of living victims is OK because:
* They are doing it for a good cause, to give the gift of life to senior members of the Republican Party and other equally important members of society.
* The Aztecs did it, and these victims are descended from the Aztecs, so they are culturally prepared for it.
OK, fair enough. I was having some problem with it, but then when he explained the Aztec thing, I could relate to it.
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Kate Beckinsale plays an art restorer. While working on her current commission, she discovers a previously hidden inscription, which points to a murder conspiracy 500 years ago. As she tries to solve the mystery, whose key lies in the paintings depiction of a chess game, people around her, connected in one way or another to the painting, begin to die. Is the past reaching out to wreak vengeance on the present? And who is the Black Queen?
I won't tell you, except to say that the answer is painfully obvious. Based on The Flanders Panel, a novel by Arturo Perez-Reverte, author of The Ninth Gate, this is a much less successful film than Roman Polanski's effort. The premise is intriguing, but the resolution is deeply disappointing. Beckinsale's character, furthermore, is so... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Jim McBride DVD Release Date: Released the 16 March 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Even if you're not one of those who can appreciate the underrated talent of real-life pals Corey Haim and Corey Feldman, you really need to see this movie. If you're a female, you'll want to see it just to see Corey Haim bare it all. If you're a male, well..a heterosexual male..you really need to see this movie. Nicole Eggert, the already gorgeous blonde we all adored from "Baywatch" and "Charles in Charge" is unveiled in all her natural glory in this magnificent piece of Hollywood history. Dont get me wrong, the story is decent as well, and really does justice to showing how maliciously callous some women can be...and as a result, how painful love can feel. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Corey Haim - Nicole Eggert Director(s): Brenton Spencer DVD Release Date: Released the 21 October 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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A rarely screened cult favorite from Paul Verhoeven, this story of medieval war and revenge should please action fans and admirers of the director and his semi-regular leading man, Rutger Hauer, but its graphic scenes of sexual violence earmark it for mature viewers only. Hauer stars as a 16th-century mercenary hired by a Western European ruler (Fernando Hilbeck) to assault a neighboring kingdom; when the king reneges on his promises to Hauer and his men, they kidnap his son's fiancee (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and hole up in a nearby castle. Hauer and Leigh are standouts in a strong cast that includes Tom Burlinson, Bruno Kirby, the late Brion James, and Susan Tyrrell; Verhoeven's realistic approach to the down-and-dirty facts of medieval life and the bloody aftermath of warfare offers a... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Paul Verhoeven DVD Release Date: Released the 03 February 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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