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Jesse Eisenberg | ... | ||
Danny McBride | ... | ||
Aziz Ansari | ... | ||
Nick Swardson | ... | ||
Dilshad Vadsaria | ... | ||
Michael Peña | ... | ||
Bianca Kajlich | ... |
Juicy
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Fred Ward | ... | ||
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Sam Johnston | ... |
15 Year Old #1
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Jack Foley | ... |
15 Year Old #2
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Elizabeth Shapiro | ... |
Chet's Date
(as Elizabeth Wright Shapiro)
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Brett Gelman | ... |
Pizza Boss
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Paul Tierney | ... |
Rodney
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Staci Lynn Fletcher | ... |
Family Dollar Cashier
(as Staci Fletcher)
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Gary Brichetto | ... |
Mr. Fisher
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The not so smart Dwayne intends to open a massage parlor with his partner Travis, but he does not have money for the investment. He decides to hire a hit-man to kill his father, The Major, who won a large amount of money in the lottery years ago, but the killer demands US$ 100,000 for the job. Dwayne and Travis kidnap the pizza delivery boy Nick and they dress Nick in a vest with a timer and several bombs. Then Dwayne tells Nick that he has ten hours to rob US$ 100,000 from a bank. Once he does, he would give Nick the code to release the vest. Nick summons his best friend Chet to help him in the heist but the scheme does not work the way Dwayne has plotted. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
While the premise of this film leaves much room for hilarity, as shown by the promising trailer, it was unable to capitalize on this due to what feels like a lackluster effort on the part of the writers. There are many tell-tale indications of this, such as in the inconsistency of the characters. Palpable tension is generated between characters without any warning, and then it is forgotten by the next scene.
Another glaring issue was the pacing of the story. If you saw the trailer, you would think it centered around this bank robbery by two normal guys. However, this is only one small piece of the movie. The opening was simultaneously slow and somewhat insufficient, then everything sped up tremendously, and then the latter half of the film was dragged out to fill up the remaining time needed for the movie to be taken seriously.
In all, I would rate this film a 6.5/10 since it was still entertaining and done by clearly talented actors. However, note that this is far from their best work, probably because the actors were confused about who their characters were.