Three Days to Vegas

If you have beloved actors, Peter Falk, Rip Torn, George Segal, and Bill Cobbs, you don't need Billy Burke, Coolio, or any other distractions. Massive talent is totally wasted in "Three Days to Vegas", with the blame falling squarely on the script. My neighbor's vacation films are about as interesting as this misguided road movie. If you want to see how to utilize a veteran cast with a good script, check out "The Crew". There really are no redeeming factors here, and watching these wonderful actors struggling with such weak material is a crime. I wanted to like it, but the shallow script cheats the audience, by essentially giving the actors nothing to work with. - MERK

Four old guys hire a bus to go and save one of their daughters from getting married to the wrong guy in Vegas and on the way they prove they can still party-hearty.

The Bucket List it ain't - but with the likes of Rip Torn, George Segal, Peter Falk, and the wonderful Bill Cobbs it is what it is: a no-brain required college road trip but instead of the 20 year old it's the 70 year olds.

The plot about the marriage is paper thin, and all too silly, as is how they lose their bus driver and that subsequent story line, but overall it's kind of fun.

Not sure who this was aimed at: old guys, young guys, it ain't family viewing, but I was surprised that I did enjoy most of it: the charm of the group shines through.

Watchable when you don't need to think and just want to relax...

Okay, they have a great cast here with Peter Falk playing a golf retired man whose daughter is getting married to a Frenchman. He doesn't like her fiancé but prefers her ex-boyfriend Billy who he hangs out with on the golf course in Florida with his buddies played by Bill Cobbs, Rip Torn, and George Segal. The cast is solid but the writing needs an overhaul. While it's an entertaining film, there are some laughs along the way from Florida to Las Vegas like how they got rid of Taylor Negron (their bus driver) and Mario Cantone in the Deep South. That led to a Thelma and Louise and Bonnie and Clyde without being terrified or horrified by their crimes even their victims appeared unaffected by the robberies. Anyway, the film is okay and it has a predictable ending.

I kind of liked it, expected a lot more though from the veteran actors though. Denis Farina would have rounded this movie up nicely if they could have gotten him for it.

The premise of the movie kind of kills it, it should have been a much smaller subplot, I think that most are fans of the familiar older actors and could have care less and done without the rapper, marriage, homo Thelma & Louis, and other distracting subplots. These seemed like deliberate filler more than plot vehicles.

The "Thelma and Louis" sub plot did have it moments, but it needed a better tie in to the main plot. These divergent tangents fragmented the movie a bit much and reminded me more of a sequence of skits than a cohesive story experience.

Certainly somewhere there are some people who invested money into the making and marketing of this movie.

Was it made for TV or was it a direct to video? Certainly no one at any time could picture this on the big screen at even the trashiest mega plex in southern California.

I bought it for $4.00, new at Barnes and Noble.

I sort of enjoyed Rip Torn, sort of.

And actually George Seagal, who I went in not liking at all.

It's just terrible.

I'll sell my copy for a dollar.

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