Dead Fish: Um Dia de Cão

I must admit I quite enjoyed this film. I think it works best as an over-the-top parody of such movies as "Lock, stock..." or "Snatch". The plot makes no sense, rhyme or reason. If you're after a cohesive plot, you'd better look elsewhere. The characters are at times funny and at the same time verging on annoying (think the character played by Brad Pitt in "Snatch", only stretched to the entire cast and entire duration of the film). Absolutely no way for suspension of disbelief here. So, again, if getting immersed in an action film is your thing, look elsewhere. All in all: noisy, clumsy, over-the-top, silly, but for some unknown reason the overall experience for me was actually not so terrible.

Starts out with a cellphone exchange between the hit-man and the innocent bystander. The bystander suddenly gets a call from the hit-man's boss, and the game is on.

It was to me a good movie gone "bad". Robert Carlyle did a great part of saving the movie but it wasn't enough to capture me to the standards i hoped after the great trailer.

To sum it up in shortness; Salvador gets the hit-man's phone. The hit-man(Lynch) falls in love with Mimi(Salvadors girlfriend). Then the madness starts. Lynch wants Salvador dead, Danny Devine wants money from Salvador, Dragan wants to kill Salvador because he thinks he is Lynch.

Well, as you can see from my writing. This movie made me confused, and i don't want to advice you to see it any later then 8PM.

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

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.