It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Fantastic!

brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Soooooo bad I only sat through it because it was soooo bad it was almost comical (certainly funnier than some of Adam Sandler's movies). I paid 50 cents for this off the clearance shelf at the local cheap shop (the aptly named Reject Shop) with a few other titles, most of which were very watchable tele movies. The movie started with some bizarre editing where the screen blacks out every few seconds (thought I had a dud disc for a minute or two). The movie then proceeds with a combination of over acting, weak acting, appallingly cheap and hastily prepared gore effects, and then just when you think it's going to improve it dives back to poor editing, shoddy acting, even lamer "special" effects, and all the while the script is unravelling before the viewers eyes - more holes than a rusty sieve. But it was worth getting to the end to see the pile of dynamite in the centre of the room go off like a can of coke in a bonfire in a multitude of pyrotechnic fizzes as the "stars" are making their escape. Gaseous explosions then erupt from everywhere OTHER than the central location of the dynamite after their escape as if steel doors and concrete walls magically turned into flammable materials. The special effects guy and the script writer - I hope they have regular jobs. The casting guy must have liked blondes, all the ladies were attractive blondes, except for the main character's wife, but she must have been told to get her hair dyed blonde, which she did, but it was done very poorly, like everything else in this movie. 10 cents may have been a fairer price, as long as you have a bit of time to kill (or murder more like).

"Final Move" is a disappointment, especially considering the B-list cast and director. I have very low standards when it comes to flicks like these.The plot is: The chess piece killer is at it again. After his last victim, he is caught and sentenced to death. After his execution, the killings don't stop. Which is weird for detective Marlowe (Schulze) who has psychic vision. He teams up with Roman Krieg (Lochlyn Munro) to stop the madness."Final Move" tries hard (too hard) to be a slick mystery-thriller. The opening credits are snazzy, but the opening scene is downright horrible: after the killer murders some woman, he takes off his mask and starts laughing for about ten minutes. You'll see.David Carradine and Daniel Baldwin don't have a lot of screen time despite their mugs on the cover. Schulze is alright, but his best role is in "The Transporter". The explosion near the end is faker than Milli Vanilli.If you like the actors, don't subject yourself to this mess.For more insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com

Yup, that's right, I joined IMDb just so I could add a comment about this movie. To anyone thinking of watching it?... RUN. take a nap, go play with your dog, go shopping, do ANYTHING but watch this! Amanda Detmer; what have you done!? She is the only one in the movie who seems to be able to act, and lowers herself considerably by being associated with this film. Lochlyn Monroe? I think I have now seen 2 or three movies he's in, one I can think of off the top of my head is Blacktop (thinking of watching it?... take the advice I have given regarding THIS movie and apply it to Blacktop) Low Budget? try NO budget. if they had one? they blew it paying Amanda. Overall, the movie has a bad and predictable script, and of the plethora of bad acting in the movie to choose from, the winner is Rachel Hunter. It's actually quite annoying, not only are her acting skills virtually non existent, but she also seems to have difficulty deciding if she has a British accent or not... sometimes she does, sometimes she doesn't. So, to sum up, this movie is horrible, so save your rental money, and more importantly, save your time and brain cells, take a nap, and thank me in the morning.

Dan Marlowe (Matt Schulze perhaps best known as a supporting player in the entertaining, but vacant "The Transporter" ) is a former cop who was so traumatized by his previous murder case that he has a nervous breakdown and loses his job. Years later, he's brought back to help on a case that's directly involved with the one all those years ago. All the abilities of the 'name' actors in this film (all two of them) David Carradine, and Daniel Baldwin are wasted in the minor roles of an under-acted police chief and a wildly overacted criminal, respectively. But perhaps I just choose to focus on those two because the rest of the film is completely mundane in every single way and full of enough clichés as to cause an unflattering sense of deja vu. Some movies just scream 'Direct to DVD release'. This is one of those that wears it on it's sleeve and definitely not in any good way. It must be so very tough to live in the shadow of a much more famous brother. But Director Joey Travolta doesn't do himself any favors by continuing to churn out movies of this 'caliber'. When the best thing on one's resume is a writing credit for a silly little action movie starring Anna Nicole Smith....well that just speaks for itself now doesn't it?? My Grade: D-Eye Candy: Lyndsay Griffin gets topless