drewkennedy

The hyper-realness of Vegas combined with espionage, very silly but that's the point. It really is original, in that there's accurate nudity and sex and drug use in the way I've experienced it on wild weekends - a proper R rated TV show. The characters are supposed to save the world when they're at their worst and that does consistently carry - their professionalism is patchy and they annoy the crap out of each other. At times there's poor writing like - a conflict between serious characters and camp characters, stereotyped characters, obvious conflict, poorly timed and predictable attempts at character development, but it's good solid entertainment.

Don't watch this, save yourself the time, unless you're a student of bad stories. Nice PREMISE for a story, and that's where it ends. There are too many characters, shots chosen are clunky. It could be a great surrealist piece, but it hovers between that and ... not sure, thriller or mystery? It deserves a much smarter treatment than this shambles, where the actors have clearly been told what to do, and done that to the ruin of the film. As it progresses, the relationships dissolve into basics and stupidity. They try to make it all tie together but honestly it's stupid and contrived. The malevolent figure has inadequate development and the payoff is too poor and too late.