Knuckledust

Or at least this is what the writer/director was probably dreaming his movie's reviews would sound like. Unfortunately the entire film is derivative and badly made, despite a cast with fantastic potential. Maybe the story is not that terrible, but it was telegraphed since the first few minutes. Then the killeresque stylish mystique, complete with individual quirks, contrived dialogues and complicated rules that don't mean much at the end. It would have been great if it would have been accompanied by good action scenes. Alas, they were shot from odd angles, cut at wrong places and censored for PG-13. This could have been a decent film with better actor direction and good editing.

Bottom line: it's not a terrible film, but it is a failure compared with its goal and considering the untapped potential of the cast. There are other films that merit your attention more.

Cannot decide if it is supposed to be an action flic or a caper flic or a self-parody. Just when the viewer almost gets to understand what a specific scene is about, the camera jerks right or jerks left and new characters appear out of nowhere to distract you. The use of color is deliberately over-done (along with garish lighting) to make you think you have a splitting headache when you actually don't. Ditto the music track. And, lest we forget, the title Knuckledust, which sort of leads one to think of this as fight film, turns out, like every other part of this script, to be only a tease with no actual payoff.

I don't find the humour funny, and there's much less action than I expected. What was there was also rather unimpressive. I found it pretty boring for a long part of the movie. Then it actually gets interesting later on, when the plot jumps around a bit with good twists. Somewhat worth it for that I suppose, if you're patient enough. But I wouldn't go so far as to recommend watching it. There are better things to do.

I must be watching a different film to the other reviewers. Poor mans Snatch. Crap acting, crap story,crap visuals. Just crap.

Better than I expected, but not in anyone's top 10. Definitely Usual Suspects/Snatch-ish.