Raindogs

2004
1h 38m

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Four young crooks steal a Da Vinci painting in exchange for the insurance money. They create an elaborate heist, which proves more difficult to accomplish than they first thought.Four young crooks steal a Da Vinci painting in exchange for the insurance money. They create an elaborate heist, which proves more difficult to accomplish than they first thought.Four young crooks steal a Da Vinci painting in exchange for the insurance money. They create an elaborate heist, which proves more difficult to accomplish than they first thought.

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3.2/10

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robbie-moffat

Entertainment - pure and simple

This movie is all about being entertained. Who cares if the plot is not realistic - it is a vehicle to allow us all to have a good time instead of watching tragedy on the news every night.

Rain Dogs is escapism good and proper, and for me, that's the kind of movie that you can watch and wake up the next day and be happy about going to work. Have a beer and smoke your fags, swear and shout, lets just get on with, life is too short to be miserable.

Rain Dogs - I love it! I'll watch it again and again because I know a good movie when I see one. Four guys trying to beat the system and being funny with it, I recommend it should be watched late at night and when your parents are on vacation.

1jake-484

Dreadful, dreadful film

I hate leaving films before the end, and so I stuck this one out, just to see what happened. Trust me, it's not worth it. I wish I'd turned it off when I first realised what a shoddy, amateur piece of rubbish it was (about 30 seconds in, as it happens) and not wasted 90 minutes of my life. Actually, I managed to speed things up a bit by fast forwarding through the rubbish and irrelevant sex scenes that are scattered randomly throughout the film.

The script is stilted, the acting is wooden, the characters are unconvincing and the camera work and sound is clearly amateur, right from the very first few moments of sound levels changing as characters turn away from the camera. A 6th former at my school made a film about stealing a painting, using a single handy-cam and amateur actors from his year. It was still significantly better than this garbage. Avoid like the plague. It's not even entertainingly bad, it's just painful to watch.

MaxFaust

Cult Director

I am fond of Robbie Moffat movies and have by now collected four of them. I will keep on buying them as they turn up (I don't go looking for them - they aren't THAT good). Perhaps it is because I have a background in theatre and thus like weirdness, perhaps I'm just demented, but I really like his films. Noen of it is GREAT. The actors are shite, the plots are shite, the production is shite, and what the characters say and do often makes no sense compared to a real world of "realism". Yet the finished result carries its own "punch" at some undefinable level. I'm pretty certain that these films will be hailed as "classics" in 20-30 years -- similar to how for instance Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci and Tinto Brass are embraced today (but not when their work was new).

Raindogs is a comedy. Noen of it's supposed to reflect reality such as we know it from Hollywood. It's nihilistic and dark at times, ludicrous at others. Needless to say, none of this would have happened in reality -- but then again so wouldn't most of the other crap that's filmed, included - but not limited to - the hip and clever stories of Guy Richie (who is my other favourite British filmmaker).

1swivelhips

The worst film ever made?

Garbage, pure and simple! A strong candidate for the worst film ever made. I suspect the the other reviewers who praised it are either friends of the director or the director himself as no one impartial could possibly find anything about this film to enjoy. It doesn't even have the Ed Wood factor of being 'so bad it's good'. If you put a camera into the hands of someone who'd never seen a movie in their life there is a pretty good chance they'd come up with something better. Anyone who sits through it deserves a medal it's so painful to watch! It's a tragedy that people like this are getting their hands on money to make films this bad when other, more talented people are struggling to finance worthwhile projects.

10loger_dave

Classic

Not many movies have ever gripped me to stay till the end,this one did in every way,good tongue in cheek movie with more than a pinch of humour.The location of the movie was set in the picturesque scenery of the west coast of Scotland with the added bonus of good acting and a good script.

The scamming these 4 boys do put Oceans 11/12 to shame, they are real fast movers though they make themselves out to be on the dumb side of life.

Would love to see a follow up perhaps how they spend there money. This movie is a must see but not for minors as the language is xxx rated.

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The story for the film was originally inspired by a piece of graffiti director Robbie Moffat saw on a toilet wall in Glasgow. Securing a grant from the Scottish Arts Council in late 2003, he developed a unique 'interactive community collaboration program' where the initial synopsis was plastered on the walls of public toilets in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Abderdeen and John O'Groats and further plot developments were added by members of the public, chain-story style. The various plot developments were then posted on the now defunct 'RainingintheToilet.com' website created for the film, and the public were invited to vote on which ones should be included in the screenplay for the finished film. Although only 37 people responded - the majority either members of the cast and crew or their immediate family - this formed the finished screenplay. To add a further element of 'serendipitous chaos,' the cast were only given a broad outline of the story and only told of the content of scenes before they were filmed. In three cases, most notably the key robbery scene, the cast were not told the content of the scene until after it had been filmed because Moffat hoped the actors would inhabit their roles so completely that they would intuitively do what was in the script. Although this did not prove to be the case, Moffat left the cast's version of the robbery in the film on the grounds that "it was raw honesty, and truth is always better than fiction."