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Movie Reviews -
Mob and Crime
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Written by Sam Minardi
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Monday, July 06, 2009 02:24 AM |
 This may be the first and last time you ever read a review of a Canadian TV mini-series (now available on DVD) on this site. But how can CoolFilmz.com not review a movie that has all of the following – a smokin’ hot chick (Elisha Cuthbert), street thugs, bad ass cops, organized crime and a shit load of guns. What else can a guy ask for?
Well, for starters, a guy could ask for a better movie! “Guns” is not all that bad but I’ll stop short of giving it high praise. The 180-minute marathon centers on a very serious political issue – gun control. Legitimate arms dealer Paul Duguid (Colm Feore) is the leader of criminal organization supplying weapons to inner-city street thugs in Toronto. Paul’s son, Bobby (Gregory Smith), is a half cocked reject who desperately wants more power. With responsibility for the syndicate’s smuggling operation, Bobby fails miserably when his girlfriend, Frances (Elisha Cuthbert), is arrested crossing the border with a car full of weapons. Further complicating matters, Bobby is implicated in a murder when a robbery goes awry. Multiple other storylines are at play throughout the film but there are simply too many to detail. After all, I’m writing a review not a damn thesis.
In my opinion, the writers try to jam too damn much into one film. Someone, somewhere along the way should’ve said, “Enough already!” Unfortunately, that didn’t happen and at least half a dozen storylines (I don’t know – I lost count!) run together at the same time. Simply put, there is no clear vision in this film. This might have been alright if I’d been watching the first episode of a TV series but it proved to be too much for a single film – or a two-part mini-series for that matter. Viewers are shuffled from one storyline to the next and deep into the psyche of multiple characters without a clear look at any of them. This is unfortunate because there really are a couple of good characters.
Now that I’ve trashed the film let me tell you why it isn’t all that bad. First and foremost, the film is interesting. A little disjointed at times but interesting, nonetheless. It highlights a very serious problem and the overall plot is a good one. Plus any movie that includes guns, murder and corruption would have to be pretty much awful for me to completely hate it. Give this script to Martin Scorsese and you’ve got a masterpiece – a film that could evolve into the next “Casino” or “The Departed.” Give it to David Southerland and you get, well, “Guns.”
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