Awesome Movie

Absolutely the worst movie.

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

They had the perfect plan. Just one thing was missing - any relation to reality whatsoever.It's unfair of these jamokes to market what was obviously a student film as a real movie. This was a collection of clichés. I counted 87. The plot didn't make sense. The characters didn't make sense. The vehicles didn't make sense. The bullets didn't make sense. I hope the stars got paid well. It was the filmmakers' who failed rather than the actors. It appeared that I missed a nude scene of a hot broad by watching this on TV but I did see it on TV so, if that nudity was worth one more star, that wasn't earned from me. I did enjoy my hamburger though.

Okay, this isn't going to win any awards. However, it's not a bad piece of popcorn entertainment as long as you can ignore some glaring continuity errors and clunky dialogue. The lead performances are unusually strong Bryan Brown plays it just right, MacFadyen does a great scumbag impression while Weller adds gravitas to an unoriginal character. I hadn't seen Weller in anything for a few years and he looks very good for his age, the verbal sparring between Brown and himself are one of the highlights. In many ways, it reminded me of the John Flynn movies of the Eighties full of tough-talking, testosterone blokes, good action and risible dialogue.

Weller is at the center of "Styx" playing a safe cracker who is coerced from retirement to help his brother (MacFayden) pay off gambling debts. A typical Weller B-movie, "Styx" is full of unrealized potential. The beginning, end, and story backbone are strong but the middle tries too hard for the serious drama when it should have just stuck with the proven B-flick action/sex/nudity titilators. The result is a marginal small screen watch at best. (D)

Weller and Brown make this watchable but that is about all. Loose story of a bank robbery gone awry with Brown left to burn alive in crashed escape vehicle. A few years later Weller is lured into another bank robbery and lo and behold his former partner Brown had escaped the fire and is the brains behind the new scheme. A few little plot twists but the needless car chases and shoots coupled with terrible digital camera work make for a waste.