Pawn

  • Crime
  • Thriller
4/23/2013
88
R

Every move is a game changer

A petty robbery spirals into a tense hostage situation after three gunmen hold up a diner that's a front for the mob.

Budget:
$83,000,000

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  • John Chard

    Yawn!

    What started out as a planned easy robbery of a diner, proves to be far more complicated than the robbers ever imagined.

    An impressive cast that features Forest Whitaker, Ray Liotta and Michael Chiklis fail to liven up this dullard of a movie. A straight to DVD effort that fails to grasp the concept of getting tension from the one location scenario. If it's not the laughable British accents putting you off - or that Whitaker is actually only doing a cameo - it's that the twist and turns still go nowhere fast, serving only to make the hum-drum pacing even more irritable. Some nice photography is a bonus, and the action sequences, while not exciting, are competently staged. But all told it looks like the 15 day shoot that it was, ...

    August 7, 2015

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