That was an excellent one.

Sadly Over-hyped

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Val Kilmer has chalked up an impressive resume. Some of his films have garnered many top awards and impressive accolades. Select a series of action or dramatic films and you'll find his name listed therein. Alright, he's appeared in a few schmaltzy movies too, but there are others which more than make up for them. Here is one case in Point. The film is called "Run for the Money" also known as " Hard Cash. " The lively story is of a recently paroled thief named Taylor (Christian Slater) who has promised his little girl he will not steal any more, but soon after is ensnared by a corrupt F.B.I. agent (Val Kilmer) who extorts Taylor to rob a Casino's earnings of $6 Million in return for his daughter's life. Having little choice, Taylor assembles a motley crew and sets out to rescue his daughter with the help of his combative and argumentative gang. A fine cast which includes Balthazar Getty, Daryl Hannah, Michael Rosas and Verne Troyer as Attila prove their worth in creating a surprising and exciting drama. The intricacy of the movie is the crossing and double crossing of plans which moves this film rapidly along. Kilmer is very interesting as the heavy, a role he so often avoids. Nevertheless, and despite the occasional cheesy segments, this could very well become a sleeping Classic for Kilmer and Slater. ****

The majority of user comments on this movie, Hard Cash, claim that this is the Worst Movie Ever, and loads of people have rated it a "1". I swear I have no idea what the hell everybody seems to have against this perfectly good movie. They must have expected something completely different, which I frankly don't see how is possible. The DVD sleeve is pretty up front about everything.This is not some big-budget Hollywood action movie, and, for cripes sake, it isn't meant to be! It's a low-key drama with interesting characters, situations and humor. And good actors. And yeah, it's straight to video, or reminiscent of a TV movie. So what? It's possible to do good stories in that format (and on that budget), too.From the moment I started watching Hard Cash, I had fun. Not for a single moment anywhere in the movie did I stop being absolutely engaged in the story. I liked the characters and the dialog and the action. I had nothing against the car and boat chases; for a small budget I thought it all looked pretty damn good. The characters were well fleshed out, the story flowed smoothly, with every detail being important. Lots of fun.This is a movie I'd normally rate a 7 or a 7.5 out of 10, but just because everybody hates it I'll raise that to an 8.God, it burns my ass when people just crap all over a totally decent, entertaining, well-written movie with good characters and performances all-round. Why, I oughtta...!!!

This is actually quite decent for a direct to video film, as it was fairly entertaining, with a not too bad story and surprisingly solid performances for the most part. All the characters are decent, and there are a couple of good twists and turns as well, plus Christian Slater is simply amazing in this!. It was a hell of a lot better then I expected it was going to be, and it had a couple of decent Car chases as well in my opinion, plus Slater's awesome charisma definitely helps the film!. Val Kilmer was obviously here just for a check but still managed to play the bad guy pretty well, and it's decently made and written, however some of the dialog was really quite bad. Slater and Sara Downing worked well together and had good chemistry, and I thought the ending was quite cool as well, plus it even has Mini-Me in it in a couple of scenes!. as far as Direct to video movies go you could do a hell of a lot worse, believe me, and Holliston Coleman is actually really funny as the daughter, plus it kept me interested throughout. This is actually quite decent for a direct to video film, as it was fairly entertaining, with a not too bad story and surprisingly solid performances for the most part, worth the watch. The Direction is decent. Predrag Antonijevic does a decent job here with what he has with OK camera work, solid angles and keeping the film at a fairly fast pace throughout. The Acting is surprisingly fairly solid. Christian Slater is amazing as always and is amazing here, he is extremely likable, as always very charismatic, had good chemistry with Sara Downing, had a pretty cool character, although I must say he deserves better then this stuff! (Slater Rules!!!!!!!). Val Kilmer was obviously here just for a check, but he still played a pretty good bad guy and was menacing enough, and surprised me because I am not a fan of him at all. Sara Downing is kind of hot, and did pretty well with what she had to do as the wife she was likable and tough, I rather liked her, her chemistry with Slater was also on. Bokeem Woodbine is OK in his role and did what he had to adequately. Daryl Hannah is sexy and does OK in her role which wasn't much, she was rather wasted. Holliston Coleman is actually very good and funny as the daughter, I see a lot of potential in her. Rest of the cast are fine. Overall worth the watch. **1/2 out of 5

To pretty known actors, Val Kilmer and Christian Slater. I thought, well this can go both ways. Well it went south and pretty fast. This movie sucks bigtime. What are these people thinking about making a movie like this. Do they actually hug eachother in the end and say. Wow guys, we have made an excellent movie. ??? The low point of the movie is of course all the driving scenes. It looks more real in Austin Powers and there the backgound is in black and white. And the way they manage to escape in the end, i didn't know whether to laugh or stick my eyes out with a rusty object. Nothing more to say i guess. This movie sucks but it doesn't suck enough to get a 1 so i will give it a 2.