rmjstudio-16648 If you prefer your movies that have a broken time line, That jump from post time to pre time, with no context. This maybe for you.I deleted the move before the 2nd act. As the Director, tried too much to do a "dusk till dawn" And had no clue how to edit.CLue #1 CONTEXT! As you learn in school which was fully missed here - Less is more.!

Scarecrow-88 Lame Tarantino knock-off/wannabe wastes a fine cast (Bruce Willis, Forest Whitaker, Shea Whigham) and features an excruciatingly long stand-off that goes on seemingly forever (instead of wringing as much suspense out of it as possible, the director has the three pointing guns at each other rambling on and on, resulting in tediousness). Three babes (Malin Akerman, Nikki Reed, and Deborah Ann Woll) are given the job by Mel (Willis) to rob a diner, but it doesn't go off so well. A shotgun blast takes out Reed immediately as the film opens, blood pooling from her as the credits roll, preparing you for the way the film uses bludgeoning violence for any impact at all. Not one single likable character in the whole cast: everyone's out to grab that brass ring (or in this case, a bag of drug money), and a lot are dead by film's end because of it. Akerman gets the star billing and is designed as the anti-heroine of central focus. Her girls are taken out before her eyes in a job that was ransacked by betrayal from the onset (Mel is a shady scumbag who really shouldn't have been trusted). Then comes Billy (Whigham) and his shotgun, telling Akerman's Tes to put the gun down. This is a stand-off of two that becomes three when hit-man Ronny (Whitaker) shows up in a deputy uniform. Ronny carries a torch for Tes, every since seeing her in the strip club she waitresses. Tes is a natural pickpocket and moonlights as a robber, accepting jobs from Mel, pushing drugs for him. Backwards and forwards in time, replaying the shootout that killed Tes' girls, Catch .44 desperately desires to achieve that Tarantino cool, with long dialogue scenes (like Willis telling a story about Running Bear to Whitaker, Reed and Woll sharing sister-time (each telling the other how they feel about the next job that'd kill both of them) at a gas station, Whitaker using his stolen deputy uniform and cop car for kicks when he pulls over the girls, and Akerman sharing a conversation with Willis over a job) meant to mimic a Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs, failing to conjure even a glimmer of the magic that made those films so much fun. Whitaker, who can be damned riveting in the right part, is saddled with a sweaty, pathetic creep, homicidal and tired. Willis, with these spots all over his neck and face, has seen better days than this. Brad Dourif is a sheriff who just keeps running up on crime scenes. Whigham doesn't have much here other than a character that orders around and shouts at Akerman, with the intent on removing any threats that could stand in his way. Plentiful outbursts of violence, profanity-laced back-and-forth, and full of unsavory characters, Catch .44 unfortunately doesn't feature anyone that interesting, nor does it surprise. Akerman is a babe, though, and she's easy on the eyes even if her character is about (if not just as) rotten as the people she surrounds herself with.

Alphacertified Not good at all. The dialogue and its delivery, especially by the 3 girls, has you wondering why you didn't persist with your own theatrical pursuits because you would surely do a better job. To be fair, they would have been directed to bash out this forced, contrived, try- hard, Point Break type of hard-assed goofball dialogue. Awkwardly slotting in the f word to try to give it some sort of edge but only appearing absolutely unnatural doesn't make for any sort of meatiness. FW is good, BW average, but I spent the final 95% of the movie waiting and hoping (but knowing my dream wouldn't come true) for the third chick to bite the bullet. The whole thing smacks of an amateurs attempt at such a genre. Very high school!

dworldeater With the exception of the excellent performance from Forest Whitaker Catch .44 has very little to offer. This crime flick really don't have much of a story , and goes the route of ripping off Quentin Tarantino by dragging it out with the overuse of flashbacks. While not as goofy as a Tarantino film , he is an obvious influence .Even Bruce Willis can't save this sinking ship as it centers on three(very hot, but largely uninteresting ) girls who are on a job to steal money from a huge dope deal. The movie however is not dope and now I know why this went direct to video ,it sucks. Catch .44 chooses style over substance and is a waste of the talents of Forest Whitaker and Bruce Willis.