A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Poor film that felt lost and thrown together with no real entertainment or enjoyment in sight. The whole film from around the 20 minute mark felt like a story that had no destination or purpose and by the end it was a shambles of tattered film roll they should have thrown away. Paul Walker and the storyline his character was involved in was the only thing stopping this from being a 4/10, as the first 20-30 minutes were reasonably watchable, However it got extremely off track and it all felt a bit like you were the meth head having the bad hallucination.The Elvis plot line was horrific and nonsensical, The women slaves and husband was average at best, and the ending was the most unbelievable piece of crap you will witness. I personally could have wrote a better ending in about two minutes. The film wasn't boring but more moronic and stupid and even the outtakes at the end which are always a welcomed addition couldn't stop this from being a one time forgettable film that you wasted 2 hours watching.

I found this film late at night on Starz, about ten minutes in, and was instantly drawn in by the absolutely out-there performances of the meth addicts in the first segment. I'd never heard of this film before, and I have rarely been so taken by surprise. Pawn Shop Chronicles is exactly why people should take the time to bounce around the movie channels at four in the morning.Pawn Shop Chronicles is clearly a homage to the EC horror comics of the 1950s. There are three tightly interwoven stories here, each of which could have stood on its own as a Quentin Tarantino "Grindhouse" film. There's a large amount of violence here, as well as a pleasing platoon of naked ladies. Of the many good performances in this film, Brendan Fraser's Elvis impersonator and Matt Dillon's crazed husband are standouts. Vincent D'Onofrio and Chi McBride skillfully hold the center as the denizens of the pawn shop in the title. I also liked Ashlee Simpson as the Elvis impersonator's girlfriend and Lukas Hass as the brain-dead buddy of the meth heads.Don't miss this one. And I say that as a Cook man!

I never heard of this movie before. I don't remember ever seeing it advertised. I don't even know if it ran in U.S. Theaters. I was looking through movies on Demand and happened upon it. The title intrigued me. The plot sounded interesting and then I saw that Vincent D'Onofrio and Paul Walker were in it...I was hooked. I'm so glad I found this movie. I've watched it twice so far.It's an anthology movie, which is one of my favorite types of movies. Each of the three stories originate from General Lee's Pawn Shop. It's here where we're treated to the characters of Alton and his friend, Johnson. The conversations these two have are pretty damned funny. The pawn shop is a central spot in the movie as the movie begins and ends here and each story begins in the shop. The first story, 'Shotgun' is my favorite story. It centers around three men... Raw Dog (Paul Walker), Randy (Kevin Rankin) and Vernon (Lukas Haas) and there half baked plot to rob meth from meth maker and dealer Stanley (an unrecognizable Norman Reedus). This story had me laughing out lout a whole lot. The conversations between Raw Dog and Randy are funny. Of course, things start going wrong from the very beginning and have an explosive ending. I don't want to give too much story away, but trust me, the whole "clown mask" thing had me falling off my chair. The scene with The Man was a bit odd, but what the heck, the whole thing is odd. The second story, 'The Ring' is a much darker tale. A man, Richard (Matt Dillon), stops at the pawn shop to pawn his new bride's ring because something was wrong with his account. While there, he sees the ring he had made for his first wife, who had mysteriously disappeared six years earlier. He sends his new bride away, buys Alton's car for sale and goes on a quest to find out what happened to his wife. Oh, yeah, he sorta loses his mind. What he discovers involves a man named Johnny Shaw (Elijah Wood) and some disturbing goings on. I liked how this story ended. The final story, 'The Medallion' involves a man who performs a tribute to "The King"...Elvis Presley. Ricky (a nearly unrecognizable Brenden Fraser) is a sad sack of a guy. He wants to be Elvis, but he's doing free shows, which aren't very good. His girlfriend leaves him and he ends up at the pawn shop. He coasted in on fumes and pawns his gold medallion that actually belonged to Elvis. The town is weird and there's a strange scene involving the two barber shops. Ricky gets a chance to make a deal for success. All it will cost is his soul. This final story strangely brings all the stories together and explains a few things. Everything comes around full circle at the end, which takes place, of course, in the pawn shop. The stories, characters and acting are all really good. It's like taking a crazy roller coaster ride. I have already recommended this movie to many of my friends. I liked it that much. I also think it has excellent potential to become a cult favorite/classic. The dialog is so good and very quote worthy. If you ever get a chance to watch this little gem, I recommend you do so. It's worth it.

This movie brings 3 stories together. First you got a couple of meth heads whom try to rob their dealer, then you have a newly wed couple that stop at a pawn shop and the guy, Richard, finds a ring that belonged to his first wife and tracks down how it got there, and last you have Ricky, an Elvis impersonator whom has dealings with some wacky barbers and performs in the county fair.Where the movie fails is that it really doesn't bring the 3 stories together. All 3 just kind of end with not much of a conclusion. Richard had the craziest of the stories since he finds his first wife naked in a cage and there are others. But the ending to his story is just so wacky, after 6 years, it ends like that.FINAL VERDICT: Only watchable if you want a few shocking scenes, all of them in Richard's story.