Dead Fish

I don't know why there are so many people hating on this movie. There are a few things I don't like about it either (the language being the main one), but that doesn't mean I find it all around "a waste of time". I think this movie is hilarious and fast paced. I like Gary Oldman and Robert Carlyle, and this movie did not lower my opinion of either. Those who let a simple movie lower their opinions of certain actors need to look at the bigger picture. They're ACTORS. Just because you don't like a character they play doesn't mean you have to stop liking them. In fact, to do that is just immature. There are bigger problems in this world than that.

That said, I like this movie. I know it's not the best movie out there, but it's not the crap so many other people think it is.

Oldman and Carlyle rock!

-Amanda

It's a British film with the typical British crazy humor but also with a strange and a bit confusing plot. It has its moments in spite of not being a great film. The cast is good. The most sonant name is Gary Oldman, but there're other good actors. One that I find hilarious is Robert Carlyle, also in this movie, but not only. I think this guy is quite funny and his characters are always comical, in one or another way.

This movie is not great but it has a large amount of comical scenes and the plot is quite entertaining, even being confusing. So I think it's not as bad as some users here in IMDb told it was! I score it 5/10.

This movie seems to aim at the same public as snatch would, but the movie doest't even come close to that.

When we started to watch the movie my girlfriend said in the first view minutes "bad movie". I like to stay a little more optimistic in these cases but in this case it was false. You can't really get a grip on the movie. It does't take you trough the story.

The worst is when the killer starts singing. I really was wondering WTF is going on now. Later on the killer again is talking about his love for the girl. Then I started feeling some sort of shame and hope he would't start singing again...

It is not the worst movie i have seen but it really is not what I expected.

If the DVD-cover states that a movie is in the style of certain others you should already be warned! Generally it's a dead giveaway for cheap imitations or failed attempts to contribute to the genre. 'Dead Fish' is a clear example of the latter, with a great cast and good production standards but yet it still fails miserably.

The reason is simply because it's all a bit too improbable and over-the-top. We have Gary Oldman as the hired gun falling into love on first glance with a girl using exactly the same phone? Jimi Mistry as a pothead whose behaviour should have killed him long ago? Billy Zane whose character is the most unlikely secret agent you'll ever see? The coming back to life of Terence Stamp?

And the list could be longer still, handy you're a locksmith if you carry a hit mans' phone who gets his orders from station lockers! On the positive side there's Robert Carlyle as the foul mouthed loan shark and gorgeous Elena Anaya as the love interest. But even they cannot save a movie that's just trying too hard.

Sometimes it's a miracle how they can transform a potential good movie in a complete piece of crap. Dead Fish has everything in it to become a nice gangster-comedy, but fails miserably. You can't blame the casting, though. There are some excellent casted actors in roles that suit them fine. Robert Carlyle is superbly casted as greedy loan shark. Gary Oldman plays the role of messed up hit-man with verve. Terence Stamp has that eerie aura that makes his presence worth gold.

But still, despite of all those good actors casted in suitable roles, the movie just doesn't surpass any mediocrity. It feels as if its writers just grabbed a couple of elements from other gangster flicks and threw it in an inspiration-less mixer. It doesn't help that some of the plot lines are just too unfunny for words. I was thoroughly annoyed by the conversations between Drakan and his English host. It just felt as an endless repeating of the same joke that wasn't funny the first time you heard it.

Dead Fish has its moments, but lacks too much.