thebogofeternalstench
This was shot on film? It looks terrible. THey wasted half their budget on that??? The picture looks horrid, cheap and nasty, and not in a good way.It falls into that cliché '$hitty boring student' type of film where the acting is contrived and wooden as you can get.The sound was terrible. I don't understand why they have so many close ups in the movie either.The dialogue is just....lame.I thought this would be a cheesy, enjoyable movie but its a total waste of time.And again, I cant believe they wasted half the budget on the terrible 16mm or whatever they used.
mgbp7
To appreciate this movie, you have to appreciate cheese. Because let's get one thing straight: this movie is *bad*. Make that Bad, with a capital B. The lower than low production values, horrid music, over-the-top acting, and shockingly bad sound quality are enough to make this look like a movie torn straight from the 80s. All that's missing are the cheesy mullets, jean jackets, and the classic 80s synth soundtrack. I was literally shocked when I came on here and saw that this was a 2006 movie.Now, I actually loved this movie. It made me feel all warm inside. But that's because it was hella cheesy and I hadn't seen anything so purely cornball in years. Make no mistake
acting, camera work, story, effects
any way you look at it, this movie is not good.Oh, you can see that the filmmakers had some ambition – that they were going for a Tarantinoesque coolness, with a cast of characters who all have their own separate agendas and end up coming together in the end in a big face-off – but it's so far off the mark that you just have to ignore whatever attempts there are at making a competent movie and enjoy the cheese.One of the essential ingredients of a classic cheesy movie is that it takes itself seriously – it's trying to be cool, it thinks it's clever, but it's so far off the mark and that's what makes it funny. This movie certainly has that. But it's trying so hard that you get the feeling that the folks who made this movie really think they're on to something
it feels like they think this can grab a genuine cult audience.Thankfully, the cheese factor is so high that the movie still stays in "so bad it's good" territory, despite its lofty ambitions.I think viewers will fall into three categories: You expect a decent movie of passable quality and have no tolerance for poorly-executed movies. You don't understand the allure of cheese. For you, this movie sucks.You understand cheese but don't find this movie to have any redeeming value, even from that standpoint. It really is so bad it's bad. For you, this movie also sucks.You have a deep appreciation and love for (unintentionally) cheesy action and horror movies and see the 80s as the golden age of pure action cheese. For you, this movie is comedy gold. Priceless.I feel like the overly positive (albeit surely fake) reviews and some of the negative reviews miss the point because they are taking this movie at face value and judging it against a baseline of what you can reasonably expect from a movie. It's not about that. You're either going to get a kick and a bunch of laughs out of the corniness of this thing or you're going to think it's a pure waste of time. There's no middle ground.Just three more things: I can say that if you took the overall plot and ending of this movie (and I mean just the bare-bones on-paper plot and nothing else) and put it in *much* more capable hands, it could be a pretty awesome revenge movie.Also, the white bald crooked cop
he was the best actor in this thing. He's the only one who engendered intentional humor.Third, though the filmmakers have probably watched their share of Tarantino and were probably going for that kind of feel, not in a million moons could this ever compare to the *worst* of what Tarantino has put out. To compare this movie to Tarantino's work is a great insult and a joke. This is not a lower-budget Tarantino-style movie. It's pure cheese, take it or leave it.Oh, and fourth: I get the feeling that the dudes who made this movie probably love movies and really wanted to make something hardcore and cool, so I feel kind of bad for slamming the film. It's not easy to make a good movie, and starting off with heavy budget constraints doesn't make things easier. Still, after reading the reviews, I just had to reply honestly.Movie Highlights: All of the dialog; not just because it was so hammy, but because it literally sounds like it's been dubbed. The sound quality is that bad.Cash's shoot now, ask later philosophy: a big group of bad guys stand around in a parking lot staring at Cash with his shotgun. One of them makes a cheesy smartmouth comment with the kind of poorly-acted vigor that would make any random 80s bad guy thug proud. Cash says nothing but immediately proceeds to blast the guy with his shotgun, which sends him flying to kingdom come. *Hilarious*.Similar scenario, just from the trunk of a car instead.Same scenario, just in a warehouse instead.Three Asian gangsters get in the back of a car. A ridiculously blond*, obviously not Asian dude is sitting still as a stick in the front seat. The Asian gangstas proceed to yell at him in (what sounds to me like) Vietnamese, because they mistake said white man for a Vietnamese man -- their usual driver, I guess (I missed some of the prior scenes). Dude obviously has no idea what they're saying and is not Vietnamese. Gangsters still don't get it and keep yelling at him. Finally the dude turns around and reveals what we've known all along: he's not the Vietnamese guy they thought he was – he's a white man! So that's why he didn't respond to all their shouting! The only way this could have been funnier is if it had been a bald black man in the front seat who they were uselessly screaming at in Vietnamese. (*Of course there are Asian dudes out there with blond hair. But this cat was obviously white.)
shawfr
Not going to go in depth but it is a pretty good "bad" movie... If you watch close there are a lot of filming mistakes...like misspellings in the translations when the characters talk in foreign language or the telephone receiver is unplugged from the base when they are talking on it. This makes for entertaining viewing, worth seeing. Don't be expecting some high quality filming from expensive audio/video equipment. It could definitely be remade into a hit with some storyline editing and more money into the production. I would recommend it even with the lower quality filming. Pretty good for up and coming filmmakers to see how you can creatively film on a budget.
Amy
"Bullets, Blood and Fistful of Ca$h" is a great movie! It's an excellent film for those who enjoy the gangster genre or just action/adventure movies in general. It is action packed with plot twists and realistic fight scenes throughout. Although it can be slightly confusing at times because there are a lot of different characters and rival gangs to remember, this is necessary for the plot to work. Plus the variety of characters (most of them "evil") keeps the viewer interested in how Ca$h (the main character) is going to win against them all. If you like movies in this genre "Bullets, Blood..." is a must see!