Wow! Such a good movie.

Wonderful character development!

How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

I watched this film the other day - it was on Sky movies and I decided to check it out. Basically Salma Hayek is a detective for a case about the ancient Chinese coins stolen from a museum, the 'Shiney New Enemies'. The bloke from Road Kill is the main guy - a suicidal hairdresser - and he plays the part so well. Elijah Wood plays a 'hard-boy' hit-man, but really he's just a big softie. The hairdresser comes across these coins after 'killing' the man who stole them, somewhat accidentally. His nephew Scottie swallows them and he wants to take Scottie to France to 'fence' the coins, which will be pooed out in 24 hours or so. It reminded me of a cross between All I Want (or Try 17 in the US) and... er... a crime movie. Very well worth watching!

Ordered the dvd last week and after reading the comments on this site I was expecting a jolly good time with a sparkling comedy, but - errr - I thought it was a bit lame. Good actors and some interesting ideas for characters, but it (and the acting!) was hampered all too often by lame dialogue - were they all trying to imitate Bollingsworth or what? A bit more colloquialism might have helped. And better directing! I don't know the other work Traktor have done but if they want to make sparkly movie comedies they've still got some way to go. Or am I missing something?I'm a huge fan of Elijah Wood's and very partial to anything he does, but can't in good conscience give this movie more than a 4 out of 10 (unless I'm really missing a point here???) - it was great to see him do some action stuff & do the gun thing - and the funniest bit in the movie was probably Mikey saying, through his sobs: "Don't worry, I'll do the hit" - but he, as well as some of the others (particularly Selma Hayek) seemed hampered by having to deliver far too many words in some situations, and not necessarily stuff that anyone would actually *say* either. Andy could have been a riot as well (he probably comes closest to being funny, next to Mikey and his craving to see "Cats") - but most of the rest of the characters were fairly clicheed, and do we really need TWO almost identical-looking bitchy women in Kresk's life? (Ex-wife and sister). The premise of everyone trying to be incredibly bad-ass and not succeeding at all could have been really funny, but it all fell down in the delivery. :-(

I was quite surprised by this movie, had not heard of it but did a lot of LOL. Some real characters in unreal situations. And that scoutmaster. These guys are real losers but you gotta like them. I also felt the use of flashbacks and jumping around in time was done quite well. A real sleeper worth a watch.

i am an ardent fan of traktor... or at least fan of certain elements in traktor and was sadly disappointed by the film. the storyline was not the ingenious silliness one expects from traktor's work. i'd love to make some specific comments, but i began nodding out after jeff goldblum was left in the ex's apartment. sorry, but i cannot recommend this one... not even to my little brother.