Les hommes de main

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.

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.

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.

Ak and ray ( casper van mullet dien and rick fox) are small timers, in nyc. And seem to be up to no good. They are professional killers. They have a weird buddy buddy relationship. Van dien had just done starship and shark attack. Beaucoup de female nudity, which explains the R rating. Some pretty rough language. The music never matches the scene....another demerit. When the killers are threatening the guy who owes a ton of money, we hear upbeat circus music. Lots of saxophone. I don't think they spent much on the music budget. Co-stars the beautiful cathy oxenberg as detective bailey, trying to catch up with the killers. The dialogue is terrible; they should have done a script tune up. The two dudes are best friends, then yell at each other for no reason. Another demerit. Directed by sidney furie... no oscars. This one is pretty cheesy. Sometimes films are way under-rated on imdb, but this one deserves its low rating. Van dien currently has nine projects in development.

This film is about two hit men that are assigned to do a number of jobs, but meanwhile realize that the lives they lead are not the lives they always wanted to have. They want to quit murdering and start a less complicated life.

The on itself not even extremely boring plot line is carried out horribly. The intention to create a dynamic duo a la Vincent Vega and Jules Winfield of Van Dien and Fox fails completely because of the worthless dialogues. This fact on itself dominates the unpleasant character of the film and thus makes the end result to a complete disaster. The acting performances are truly horrible, but it must be said, that is not so much because of Van Dien or Fox but more because of the emptiness of the characters they must enroll.

This film was total crap and I wonder what more I could've done in the 90 minutes of my life I spent watching it. My god...everything would be more satisfying then watching The Collectors. It is a miracle how this production raised the small amount of money that was needed for producing this film.