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DVD Bad Karma
 Run time: 87 min Rating: 4.5 Genres: Thriller Director: Suri Krishnamma Writers: Steve Allrich, Aleve Mei Loh Stars: Dominic Purcell, Ray Liotta, Andy McPhee |
| Storyline A near-death experience forces a con man to come to terms with his shady past. |
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| Plot Keywords: two word title | |
| Details: Country: USA, Australia Release Date: 11 September 2012 (USA) |
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DVD Bad Karma
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I am just so sick and tired of these over rated ratings on IMDb, and this other piece of rubbish is just proof of it. A rating of 9.4 should have been a dead give away, and the fact it stars a washed up Hollywood star, and set in Australia. sure there are some, and I say some good Aussie films, but this is not one of them.
And having such a high ratings on here and not hearing about all those potential Oscars that go with such a high rating film is just more proof that things are not what they seem.
I am the only one to blame for seeing this rubbish, but I was mislead, so people be warned, this is rubbish! And how did drugie Ray Liotta get into Australia? anyway avoid at all times.
1 out of 10
I got to see this yesterday with a friend. Because it had a 9.7 rating, I hoped (incorrectly as it turned out), that this may be a good movie.
It was little better than a pile of steaming horsesh*t.
Liotta plays a down & out criminal who is out of jail and can't keep himself off drugs and alcohol. Following an accident, en-route to helping Purcell rob some drug dealers, Liotta gets his life together and moves north from Sydney to the Gold Coast.
Fast forward 3-years. Here, he is living with the lady of his dreams. Purcell is now out of jail (only 3 years for an armed holdup of drug dealers, using an Uzi ??? sounds way too brief) and tracks down Liotta and starts to make his life a misery.
Purcell kills a couple of people in a shopping mart and blackmails Liotta to helping him with one last robbery.
The plot of this story is passable, the acting from both leads is atrocious, the music is woeful, the ending is just ludicrous.
Having said all that, I think that this movie most likely got its 9.7 rating by having friends and family of the director, producer and others to cast a good vote. The movie was finished a year ago and is only being released now – could that be because the crew wanted to distance themselves from this ultra-lame movie ?
This is one to hold off getting in the early days. Wait until it's on weekly rental at your DVD store.
STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning
Malloy (Ray Liotta) was a petty criminal who was supposed to assist his friend Mack (Dominic Purcell) in holding up some drug dealers and selling their product back to them, only to get high on coke and crash his car, leaving his friend to get set up by an undercover cop. Years later, he's settled down with a decent woman who he's looking to marry, whilst contending with some heart problems, only for his old friend to show back up on the scene and frame him for involvement in a convenience store hold up where two people were killed, using this to blackmail him and control him like a dog.
Ray Liotta is a curious figure. A notably intense actor, favoured for more psychotic roles, somehow he never managed to succeed as a leading man, always more prominent in supporting roles, even in his most well known films. There's no doubt he had huge potential as the main star, and it's almost surely just down to picking bad or unsuited scripts that got him in trouble, but alas here he is in this disposable piece of work, the latest in what's become a very long line of straight to DVD non-entities.
Filmed and set in Australia, the low budget fails to hide away in this by the numbers pot boiler, predictable and formulaic through out with very little to make it stand out as a film on it's own. Liotta looks his age now, and it's clear had this been a bigger studio production it would have gone to someone at least twenty years younger. The role almost doesn't suit him. It's mercifully short, but no less a plodding time waster than it is. **
This ain't no bad movie but, in my opinion, a blockbuster neither. It's a story about a messed up ex criminal who's trying hard to start all over again. He found himself a nice woman and got a honest job. He does very well until his old partner in crime is released from jail. This bad hearted ex partner in crime doesn't accept that others build up a decent life and starts to do extreme damage to them.
The movie could have been better if there was a little bit of humor in it, it's just so serious that I got a little bored. The story is nasty but the thrilling moments hardly kept me focused.
This movie is worth watching if you don't expect much and if you're interested in the violent world of drugs and crime. There's even a little chunk of drama present.