Palmdale

Great work by Director Erich Kemp along with all his cast and crew on this low budget pleaser.

It's a slow burn deal that gains momentum as the film unfolds... working its way into a fully satisfying climax with a twist ending.

And you're cheering for Kurt non-stop through the "job" he has to do... and while I won't spoil the ending for you... it's both unexpected and cathartic.

Tech credits are noteworthy.

Score is moving without being heavy handed.

And the cast has come to play some major league ball.

10/10.

Such a sweet story. Murderer with a heart of gold. The only man able to smoke in public anywhere in L.A county with no repercussions. They wanted him to be bad like Clint Eastwood but fail miserably with a thin script and a complete failure to involve the audience. There is zero action for all the tough talk and buildup as well as no building to a climax. It remains the same blase story throughout, promising some big finale and never delivering.

This is a surprising lime-twist of an ashcan-school-of-art film. Down-on-their-luck swindlers, gangsters, and prostitutes hash out their shabby and dimwit existences with surprising and contradictory moments of ethical thinking. I wouldn't dream of spoiling the ending for you, but you will be gobsmacked. Nothing and nobody in this commentary on human degradation is predictable. Railroad stations, back alleys, city cacophony, and callous even murderous machismo seems to rule. But justice is served with a genius gyration of motives and modus operandi. Who would have thought that ten wrongs make a right? That there are angels in this world and they are sometimes the last person you would expect?