Peter Five Eight

Up to 2017, Kevin Spacey at the world at his feet in the movies, theatre and television. A multiple award winner, he was in demand.

Then after some sexual assault allegations. It all went sour. His turn in the movie, All the Money in the World saw his performance reedited at the last minute by director Ridley Scott. His replacement Christopher Plummer got an Oscar nomination.

Peter Five Eight is Spacey's first starring role in seven years. This is a low budget independent feature. Major movie companies will still not touch him.

Spacey gives a loud broad performance as charismatic hitman with the codename Peter Five Eight. Hired by Lock (Jake Weber) to find real estate agent named Sam (Jet Jandreau) who is running away from her past.

In order to find her, he charms Brenda (Rebecca De Mornay) to find out just who is who in a town full of eccentrics, yokels and hicks.

Peter Five Eight is an absurd noirish crime film. It went straight to streaming and outside of Spacey, there is little to recommend it. The acting and story is all over the place.

About seven or eight years have passed since the shameful history with Spacey, different "teams" attributing the shame to vastly different things, when he was still close to the peak of his career. To see him relegated to playing in films like this is beyond sad. No one should be given the power to so thoroughly destroy a man's career, life and legacy except in very clear cut cases where it is beyond a doubt that man did something worse than ruining another person.

But enough about Spacey. When the film started I expected it to be a scene from an in-movie production, waited for the director to shout "Cut!" and fire the writer who would write such things and the actress reading them so laughably bad. And yet, no, that's the film. It continues like that.

When Spacey enters the scene, he makes a silly face which is meant to be threatening. I didn't recognize him. He went old and bloated - again, refer to paragraph 1. And then, after coming out of the car with the hat on, he throws the hat into the car! It was his car hat! The dialogue that follows is only funny when heavily inebriated.

In summary, the only part of the film that is worth it is to hear the man read the lines: "With little regard for idle pleasures, I was doomed to play the villain's part. Here I am, a rail town amongst the vulgar and profane. In the depths of Hell". Quite true, Mr. Spacey, quite true.

Peter 5:8 KJV: "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour"

It kicks off like amateur hour. Affectation creeps in as if someone is trying to sell something cheap as much more valuable. At one point it looks like it is going to turn into a David Lynch film. Something big seems to be going on, with millions of dollars being transferred to the Kevin Spacey character. In the end, it's all just pointless: the Bible quote, the devil, the guilt, the hitman. Nothing adds up. There is no thrill, no intrigue, no action, no (dark) humor. The bloated Kevin Spacey is quite unappealing. Actually going with the idea that this is just a parable, with Spacey as the devil, will make the whole film look even more ridiculous.

Hope. What can get you through this movie is hope. The hope that it will turn into something better. The love for Kevin Spacey, Rebecca De Mornay or Jet Jandreau. A deep faith in religious movies. But first and foremost hope.

Forget the intriguing, stylish and sophisticated movies we've seen Kevin Spacey in before. This steaming pile of drivel was unforgettable for all the wrong reasons. The acting was appalling - the female actor who played Sam was so over-the-top with her wild eyes and shocked expressions, it was embarrassing. Kevin did try, bless him, and the scene where he expertly mimed a song in the pool hall was the highlight for me. But the rest was just awful. I did my crossword puzzle while the movie played out. Towards the end it picked up a teeny bit, thanks to Rebecca de Mornay, but a few minutes out of a full length movie is far from satisafactory. Life is too short and there are so many other movies to watch, so please, give this a big miss. I think I'm gonna watch Kevin in LA Confidential again, just to appease myself .....

I read a review in which the author wrote: "The acting is at times poor and at times exaggerated" (something in these lines) and then ranted about not understanding what kind of comeback this was for Kevin Spacey.

This movie shows us the present reality of cinema: inexperienced people, who know jack about writing and/or directing, and are given money to make a movie.

As many recent films: good idea; not a bad script; horrible execution.

I thought the leading actress must have been picked for her talent, because she has the dullest, inexpressive face I have seen in years... but then I "dug up" the "director's" history, and they have collaborated previously. So there's a shocker!

I don't think there is bad or overacting... I just think that the parts are too much for everybody, and too little for Rebecca de Mornay (another story for Hardcore Surgery Specials) and Kevin Spacey.

He does not overact... the part is ridiculous and he tries to make it good. He fails, because, as we say in Portugal, there's no tip from where to grab the part...

I understand why he took it. It's not his comeback, and whoever says this, know nothing about movies, actors and getting railroaded inconsequentially.

He took it, because he has to get back to work, and it seemed like a good way to start, but again we have to go back to the amateur who directed this, who came from Visual Effects something position, in some, actually, rather popular films.

I was really looking forward to this after "Control" (where he was a brilliant voice/character), but I am disappointed, because a bad director wastes a good cast.

The climax is absurd, at best... The ending is interesting, because it leaves You wondering, and that's, as far as I am concerned, positive.

I don't blame Kevin Spacey... I get Rebbeca de Mornay... I loathe the rest (of the people and movie).

This could have been a lot better!