You could do worse on a slow weekday night than to rent this one. They tried a bit too hard to copy other people (the Coen Brothers most notably) by assembling a quirky cast and making a film that combines suspense and humor. Not a bad first time effort by the writer and director. Under good direction, he's a pretty decent actor, but here he looks like someone's brother-in-law who stumbled into a movie role. Veteran Coen Brothers bit player, Joe Polito, plays a security guard after the money. ![]() Now there's a laugh, Jeremy Davies as an FBI agent. Chris O'Donnell is the hitman trying to recover his money, which coincidentally, was to be his fee for killing the drifter, who was mistaken for an FBI informant. Jeremy Davies (the mumbling astronaut in "Solaris") is the drifter. It's still entertaining but there are moments that make you cringe. ![]() In the hands of a director with more experience, this might have been a pretty good movie. It is the first resort in Las Vegas owned and operated by a Native American tribe. LAS VEGAS (KLAS) When the main doors at the Palms Casino and Resort open for the first time on Wednesday, it’ll usher in not only guests but a new era for the casino. The central plot of this film is promising - an enigmatic drifter finds a bag of money and has the foresight to realize people are after it, so he places several decoy bags out there to confuse everyone while keeping the money for himself. First look inside new Palms Resort as opening date nears.
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