OldSwede

I can´t believe, this film doesn´t get the credits it deserves. In my opinion, the plot is rather original and has NOT been used a hundred times before: Take the wrong exit and you land in the Ghetto. Hasn´t everyone considered this as a personal nightmare once a while?

The directing is pretty good, the movie sometimes fast paced, sometimes extremely thrilling. But the best thing is the cast. Emilio Estevez (always worth a look) as the new family father who has to realize, that his wild times are over. The yet unknown Stephen Dorff as his younger hot-shot brother. Award winning Cuba Gooding Jr. (good as always) and Jeremy Piven as the greasy, selfish, money-driven scumbag who gets what he deserves.

But even more interesting is the cast of the bad guys (I wonder why no one has noticed that before). Eric Shrody as "Rhodes" (better known as one of the few respected white Rap-Stars "Everlast") proves, that he can act, too and gives a beautiful Irish-styled Gangster. The infamous Peter Greene as "Sykes" plays once again a psychotic, blonde bad-ass. You wonder, were you have seen this guy before? Well, do you remember "Redfoot" in "The usual Suspects"? Or maybe "Zed" from "Pulp Fiction"?? ("Zed´s dead, Baby. Zed´s dead.") Now I see eyes open wide.

But last and definitely NOT least is Denis Leary as the super-villain "Fallon". Being one of the greatest stand-up comedians EVER (Check out his program "No Cure for Cancer"!), he is also one hell of an actor (Check out the hilarious comedy "The Ref"!!). Having a rather f***ed up sense of humor he has visibly fun playing the gang-leader and gives a few of the best one-liners in movie-history (after Esteves blows up the van, he says cool: "Shit, that was like the Hindenburg, man!").

And let´s not forget the blast-away soundtrack that combines Rap- and Metal-Superstars (e.g. ICE T & Slayer)! Unfortunately it is rather in the background of the movie, which I think is becoming a bad habit in movie-making (doing a super-hip soundtrack with songs, that doesn´t even appear in the movie at all!). In Germany, the soundtrack was in the TOP 40s for weeks, although the movie didn´t even make it to the cinemas here and went straight to video! Check it out or don´t, but if you don´t, don´t blame me!

This is an impressing Action-Movie from Sweden. Although I think "Den demokratiske Terroristen" is the best Hamilton-Film, "Hamilton" is a very entertaining and action-packed Movie full of suspense. Peter Stormare is nearly as good as Stellan Skarsgård and Mark Hamill does a good job fighting his "Luke Skywalker"-image and makes a really good villain you´ll love to hate. The book are in fact better because of the many details given about the different secret services and political conspirations, but - hey - this should be an action movie. Despite that, the beginning of "Hamilton" with the nightmarish execution-scene in the russian Tundra from "Ingen mans land" is one of the most intense filmparts ever made. It´s worth watching it.