Awful. Just terrible. Bad start, bad ending, bad characters. What can I save? Maybe Forest Whittaker, because he was his usual self as an actor, but it’s not like his character Ronny deserves much.
It starts with three girls talking: Tes, Dawn and Kara. Soon they quit the small talk and start speaking about their business in this remote diner. They’re looking for a truck driver but they don’t know who he is, so they figure the owner of the place must know for sure what’s going on in her place, Tes is certain that if drugs are smuggled throw there she can give them information, so they get up, guns in hands. They don’t look very good though, and Kara is shot dead right away. With a shotgun at close range, there’s no doubt she dies. Flashback to introduce them and see how they got there. I thought, oh my that was the ending? But no, the movie goes back and forth a few times :-/ Basically they work for this drug boss Mel (Bruce Willis in one of his most embarrassing characters) and although last time apparently they screwed up he’s given them another assignment. Kara feels something’s not right but the others don’t listen to her. Tes even gets angry at her suspicions because she keeps saying that Mel never let them down… he told them somebody’s stealing his drugs (or something like that) and they have to find out what is going on.
None of them is very likable actually, they look like silly girls who think that using swear words makes them tough :-/ while truth is that an over usage of the f word only makes them look ignorant (specially the ‘you know what? f you … no other arguments huh?). They do over use it, they barely use other words. Anyway, we see Ronny killing a deputy sheriff and then stop them while they’re driving there. He just talks to them for a while then lets them go, and they don’t seem to know him at all, they’re just eager to go on. They get to the diner and as we already saw, Kara is killed in a second. Dawn gets crazy and empties her gun on the owner who shot her sister. A man sitting alone gets up and shoos Dawn. Two out of three are dead already. Finally Tes seems to wake up and shoots him. A man (Billy) comes out from behind the bar ( I think) and points his weapon at her. Drop your weapon or I shoot you-no you drop your weapon or I shoot you . That kind of thing.
At this point Ronny comes in and shoots a couple who simply stopped at the diner to eat, maybe because they were witnesses or maybe just because he likes shooting people. Anyway, he says the most absurd things: 1, that Billy was paid to take them girls out, which is absurd because he killed nobody, not the dead girls and not Tes right in front of him. Ronny says Mel doesn’t care about them, and he doesn’t like people screwing up like they did last time (whatever happened, we don’t know)and that he set them up. Tes here is even sillier than she ever was; the tough woman apparently was hiding a teenager with a crush on her boss, because now she’s all like “I know him” and “he wouldn’t do that to me” and stuff like that. Come on!
Ronny also reminds her that they know each other, he was the one who took her to meet Mel in the first place, and yet she had no memory of him. All this time he’s been in love with her, he always helped her (last assignment was the only one he couldn’t be there to help her, which is the only thing of the whole movie that actually makes sense: they always made it because Ronny was there! )
Ronny wants to marry her but she doesn’t of course. Ronny gives her an ultimatum: shoot Billy and come with me or I shoot you. She doesn’t know what to do because he’s clearly dangerous and delusional, but at the last moment she turns and tries to shoot him.
Next scene we see Mel arriving. Ronny’s alive, only injured, while everybody else is dead, and Tes looks dead too. Mel speaks to Ronny for a while, some kind of story using a cowboy and an indian to talk about the two of them (I think someone has seen a few Tarantino movies… please let Tarantino things to Tarantino ok?) . After the story, Mel shoots Ronny and prepares to leave but surprise surprise Tes is not dead yet and she shoots Mel ! Good, these could have been a nice ending, and after shooting him she should have had used her last bit of energy and drop where she was, the end, that would have been ok, but noooo, of course not, this movie is awful to the core. Next scene we see Mel’s driver outside. He hears the shots, wonders what to do for no more than a couple of seconds, then goes to watch what is happening… and as soon as he steps out of the car Tes is already there, gun in hand. She takes the car and drives away! Wow, the expert killer Ronny had thought her dead, she certainly look like dead in there, but now after shooting Mel she only needed three seconds to get up, get out and quickly sneak up on the driver, and drive away.
Of course. Why not? Who cares, a decent finale would not have saved this movie.
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