n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Elmore Leonard books rarely adapt to good movies. Something about the breezy, sleazy thrillers with undercurrents of dark comedy get lost in the big screen. For every Get Shorty there is a Cat Chaser or The Big Bounce.Set in late 1970s Detroit, Louis (John Hawkes) and Ordell (Mos Def) are small time crooks who kidnap an ageing trophy wife Mickey Dawson (Jennifer Aniston) of a crooked property developer Frank Dawson (Tim Robbins.) When Frank gets a ransom demand he does not want to pay as he plans to run off with his younger mistress.Mickey reaches out for her survival instincts as at least as Louis and Ordell come across as nice bumblers. It is Monk the neo nazi pervert whose house that Mickey is holed up in who poses a threat.Despite a strong performance from Aniston this is a flat and inert movie which lacks the swagger that an Elmore Leonard adaptation should have.

I swear I was trying to pay attention but after a while the male characters started to kind of blend together until I couldn't quite tell who was who. It was all brown hair and moustaches and aside from the black guy and the big guy they were so same-y.The DVD blurb made the movie sound more interesting than I thought it was. It felt very slow-paced for something that was meant to be 'action-filled'.Also the large chunk of racism and anti-Semitism was just... weird. I don't know whether that was where the 'comedic gem' part was supposed to come in; if so it really didn't work.Always like Jennifer Aniston, and she played her role well, but sadly she was the only bright spot in this movie.

The movie does not have any important message besides that about trust maybe. Orwell Robbie betrays his partner Louis Gara when he thinks Louis would not agree to kill Mickey Dawson. Makes you think that you can't trust anyone. A lesson about karma can also be seen. Melanie cheating on Frank Dawson just as he did on his wife. But I mean what else would you expect from a woman like Melanie that gets involved with a married man. Overall however, the movie is too slow and definitely not a typical Jennifer Aniston movie. There is not a lot of action and it gets boring at times. The ending is the best part. Its hilarious and turns the cards around. It makes you like Mickey, Louis and Orwell. They become a cool 'couple folks'. Frank is portrayed as the typical bed man in this movie. He drinks a lot causing marriage problems and instead of improving himself he chooses to go after a younger woman that makes it seem as she accepts him for whom he is but in reality she does not care a bit about him. He is a fraud and self-loving men. Why is he that way the movie does not show. Jen's acting is top as always. However, who did the editing on the scenes when Louis brings Mickey home, a high school student? It's terrible. Overall I would not recommend this movie. I did not enjoy it.

I just saw this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel, "The Switch" off Amazon Prime the other day, and it's a winner! If you recall the 1997 Quentin Tarantino film, "Jackie Brown" (which was based on Leonard's novel, "Rum Punch"), this is sort of a prequel to that, using the same characters. John Hawkes and Yasiin Bey (AKA "Mos Def") play the same two characters Robert DeNiro and Samuel L. Jackson played in that earlier Tarantino picture. This time, they take for ransom the wife (Jennifer Aniston) of a wealthy man (Tim Robbins), who they believe will cough up some big dough for her, but upon realizing what's going on, she doesn't believe the money will be coming through. The heart of this film is the relationship between Hawkes and Aniston, who develop a sorta romantic thing while this whole ordeal is going on. I first remember Hawkes as the "Crab Shack" guy on an early '90s episode of "Wings", but wow, in recent years has he come into his own as a film actor- with the likes of movies such as "The Surrogate", "Me and You and Everyone We Know", etc.. Well, anyway, that's the reason to check out this movie, plus like with most Leonard-based films- so much going on at once- and a lot of fun in a darkly-comic-film-noir-type way. Thumbs up!