Wow! Such a good movie.

A Masterpiece!

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

I'm giving this a 6.5 and I'm pretty loyal to movies with wesley snipes. This movie just lacked a great plot. Everything you learn about writing a story it seems to be forgotten in this movie. From the begging, to the plot, to the suspense, and even the ending was terrible. I expect better from mario van pebbles. Welsey still can act, and the girl wasn't a bad actor either. As a matter of fact all the actors were pretty good or at least decent. In a lot of low budget films you get some terrible actors. I can't recall any. Even the sick twisted couple all played their parts to the T.But beyond that Its petty lame. I mean judging this based on passenger 57, demolition man, white man can't jump and all the blades. And to be honest I should have gave it a 5. But like I said the other actors and actresses were great. The movie was lacking action. Yeah there were bits a pieces of action. But it wasn't put together well. And the police weren't tough enough. The movie was about a drug sting gone wrong along with some crooked cops. Thats should be an easy plot with the cast they had. But they needed more action. You can't just show scene after seen and then not explain some of these characters. I guess with the low budget they weren't able to get into detail of each character. But thats what makes you have a feeling of that character. If you keep throwing characters in with out giving the viewers a personality to attach it to then you are mudding the waters.They did a good job with the serial killers. And to be honest they did the best job with them. Sick as it was it left you in wanting to know whats going to happen. I surely didn't want to know or care what happened to lucky and his stripper girlfriend. Even the part where he catches her calling the guy who got killed in the shootout (who was dead at the time) was really set up wrong. You have to spend some time on that, do it right. And the end of the day, great characters, great acting, bad bad plot witch was all over the place. I would have excepted this in the late 80's early 90's with the one liners and the sex that took place. But not in 2006. I don't think they have the range to make a low budget movie a hit cause everybody is worried about a paycheck. Next go in detail a little more, make up a new concept. Might not be new to society but new to views. Like in drop zone. How many people could tell you about skydiving? But it seems like you watched the movie and you learned something new. If you are going to make a low budget film make it to where they viewers is like "ah, I am learning something new thats cool, is that really how that works". You have to question it cause you don't know. And it may be fake but it got you interested. Its called creativity and this movie get 3 in creativity. Once again shouldn't be hard to do with this cast.

Slow moving, a little incoherent and with next to know pay off.You must have been sniffing paraffin if you think this is good… a GCSE student scripted this after an all night Tarantino movie watching session Incoherent, badly scripted, hammy dialogued, in places poorly acted. See Wesley Snipes amble from one flung together scene to another (with little or no continuity) as he inexplicably meets a lot of deranged, unbelievable, two dimensional characters.The only value this movie has is that it features Snipes, who manages to put in an OK performance (unbelievably under the circumstances).Its tried, its old, its clichéd, it's a waste of your money and/or time and finally it features Mario-Van conducting one scene wheeling about imparting dialogue on a push-bike…why? Who the hell knows.At the end if you know or care what is going on then you must be on some higher level of consciousness is all I am saying! Avoid, unless you want to laugh at a bad movie done badly.Rubbish I will say that again…Rubbish

Hard Luck is a truly odd film. It stars Wesley Snipes and is written and directed by Mario Van Peebles. At first glance, it's a combination of a typical Snipes action movie and the modern-day blaxploitation films that Van Peebles specialises in. Snipes portrays an ex-con desperately trying to go straight, who innocently blunders into a drug deal/police sting gone wrong, and is forced to go on the run with a Cuban stripper he's only just met (played by Jackie Quinones). Cue shoot-outs and car chases. So far, so expected.However, the movie then begins cutting away to an entirely separate 'Saw'-type storyline happening many miles away, concerning a couple of backwoods serial-killers who abduct and torture people to death, filming themselves while doing so. And in the first indication that this film is going to be out of the ordinary, one of these snuff producers is played by Cybill Shepherd - yep, Cybill Shepherd!!!Meanwhile, back in the Snipes storyline, the crime aspect is practically forgotten and it almost turns into a standard road movie, complete with a cameo from veteran character actor Luis Guzman as an extremely camp gay porn baron. Eventually the two separate plot lines converge when Snipes crosses paths with Shepherd at the movie's climax.As a result, Hard Luck is bizarre but strangely fascinating. It really is like watching two entirely different movies that have been edited together. There's even a third major plot line - with Aubrey Dollar as a teenager travelling across America with her boyfriend - that has mostly been left on the cutting room floor.The stunt casting of Shepherd works really well, and she's clearly enjoying herself in a real change-of-pace role. However, there's something slightly distasteful about the movie's treatment of female lead Quinones. Seemingly not content that she's playing a stripper (her introductory scene has her performing a pole dance, immediately followed by a naked lap dance) who wears very revealing and skimpy clothing outside work, the script keeps coming up with really lame excuses to get her character to completely disrobe several times throughout the film. In fact, so lame are the reasons for her stripping off, that the writers are clearly admitting how gratuitous it is, in a half-hearted attempt at self-referential parody. You can almost imagine them whispering in your ear as the film unfurls - "yeah, we know there's absolutely no good reason for her to get her kit off in this scene, but look, that's one shapely butt she's got." Quinones' entry on the IMDb reveals only a few minor credits, and this is her biggest role so far. It's most likely a case of a struggling unknown actress accepting an exploitative role that other, more established actresses would probably have kept clear of. Quinones is actually very good in the part, proving that she's not only extremely easy on the eye, but has got more-than-capable acting abilities as well. Hopefully we'll see more of her (no pun intended).

This is your usual Wesley Snipes movie. No surprises in that area. The surprise, however came from different sources:1. Mario van Peebles doing his version of Pulp Fiction. Not bad but why bother - if it ain't broke, don't fix it. 2. Cybill Sheppard - her character is just so way out in left field that watching her in this movie is like watching a train wreck - you know it'll end badly but you just can't tear your eyes away. Because she looks like she must be miscast in this role, it's all the more unnerving to see just how well she nails it. 3. The violence in this movie is overwhelming, from the brutality of a blood sport - Spike TV has done it to death, move on! - to the gratuitous speeding car chase - makes me wonder how many red Mustangs they had to go through not to mention keeping innocent civilians off the road while they filed the chase - and the final degradation of watching serial killers do their thang.I think the movie would have packed just as big a punch had they faded to black for most of the serial killer games. I mean, it's been done to death. I'm pretty sure the public can fill in any blank after seeing the tools of the serial killer's trade. In fact, I'm certain our twisted minds can do much better than any director/writer after being exposed to The Silence of the Lambs.Wesley isn't what made this movie - the ensemble cast was. He just sweetened the deal.TS