Assassinos de Aluguel

Van Dien and Fox (of the L.A. Lakers and Vanessa Williams' other half) come off as mismatched hit-men in this off-beat drama. Oxenberg out of her element as an English-born detective sent from Louisiana to put an end to their reign of "terror" (?). This movie had me wondering halfway through it...WHERE THE HECK WERE THEIR SOUTHERN ACCENTS??? Maybe lost with their talents in the script.

The on-screen interactions between Casper Van Dien and Rick Fox (I) are natural and unrehearsed. Their characters literally flow through the dialog. I wonder if they are close friends off screen, for them to make this movie look so easy. Now, I don't know if real 'Collector's' work like they portrayed the parts, but I bet they wish they did. It would undoubtedly make their job much easier.

I started out just turning to the channel for some background entertainment while I worked on a computer project. Well, the computer project didn't even get started because I stayed focused on this movie throughout. I gave it a nine, because I like to see movies where the actors/actresses don't look like they're trying hard, but instead, look like they are enjoying making it.

The current IMDb rating is rather poor. That's a shame. I just finished watching it on cable and found it enjoyable. It's not the top of my list, but the ending left me with mixed emotions: on the one hand, I got liking the characters enough that I had my own set of hopes for them, on the other I had my sense of "do something that's not a cliché." I won't say which won.

The film has a good sense of its own plot. I trace that to the one line where -- after a nearly implausible plot twist -- A.K. mutters "I should have bought a lottery ticket." (or something like that; I'm going by memory)

If you get a chance to catch the film, and don't mind a little tittie exposure (from the adult club scenes), it's no waste of time.

I had a boring Saturday night to watch this and "Sniper" and I think the IMDb scores for the films should have been swapped. I had trouble caring for the lead characters in "Sniper," but I found myself pulling for A.K. and Ray. I think the bad reviews came from trying to compare this to Tarantino films. If you don't, it works just fine.

I rented this on the "recommendation" of several other reviewers.. little did I know they were all 13 year olds. That's literally the only group of people who could think that this movie was worth 90 minutes of their life. The whole movie has the feel of a porn movie but with no porn, It's got the bad acting, the bad script, the crappy music, the scenes that make no sense and don't develop the story, everything! It's even got as one reviewer so perfectly put it, "the tittie action at the beginning". For those people who think these 2 goobers had "screen chemistry", what kind of life do you lead? Do you talk to your friends delivering one line at a time with pauses between each line? Are you all on drugs? Also, for those who wonder where the "southern accent" went, you've obviously never been to New Orleans. The only thing approaching an accent there is closer to Brooklyn than the south. They sure as heck don't pronounce it New Or-leens though.. the director has obviously never been there either. I wish I had never been near this movie.

This is undoubtably the greatest crime movie of ALL time. Casper Van Dien makes the transition from Starship Troopers as well as Rick Fox does from the basketball court. It is a tale like no other. Two partners in crime, who hail from different world, join together to commit the scandel of a century. One is black, one is white, yet somehow, amidst their differences, through hard times, deadly circumstances and the wittiest of dialogues, they realize they are not that divided and prevail. If you have enough money, I would suggest you tattoo the words, "The Collectors," to your forehead and to the foreheads of your progeny. Then hop on a plane to some third world nation, spreading its word to the sick and the starving. Rick, you Fox!