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Has anyone actually sat down and watched this movie?
I didn't quite catch it from the very beginning—to be honest, I caught maybe the first twenty seconds before switching over to something else—but I jumped back in right when that trio was setting up their prison break and managed to escape thanks to a guard's help.
The sheer amount of comedic beats is almost unbelievable; they feel like little side quests happening alongside the main plot rather than being built into the core of the story itself. You have two guys plotting an escape, while the third guy just hitches a ride with them and refuses to leave their side, even when they try to shake him off pretty aggressively. At one point, they need to lay low, so they duck into a movie theater and watch a film; the place is practically empty, yet everyone is totally captivated by whatever is playing on the screen. And then there are the comments: "Man, she's gorgeous. I can't believe she's doing that with a dog." Later, during the getaway, one of them gets a massive toothache and threatens to kill the other if he doesn't pull it out using some ancient-looking pliers. Naturally, the guy goes ahead and pulls it. Then, that third guy who wouldn't take a hint (the one who pulled the tooth) finds his... girlfriend or wife (all I know is they have a daughter) and is absolutely over the moon. She’s clearly stressed out, though, because she blew all her cash on clothes after being promised she'd host some major TV show. She spent about 2.5 million dollars, but it doesn't really matter; the fugitive isn't even mad. Then she tells him she's got someone else, but he just shrugs it off, saying it's fine as long as they're together. In the end, he, she, and their daughter wind up on this stone-hauling barge—completely broke, without clothes, without anything.
Basically, it's pure madness.
The way I've described it makes it sound like a straight-up comedy, but it really isn't. To me, it felt like a movie about friendship and those unbreakable bonds that tie people together, as well as the kind of people who would stab you in the back at the drop of a hat—which, in this context, actually serves to make the themes of loyalty and obligation hit much harder. One of the duo ends up betraying his partner and vanishing. Then, this guy who seemingly falls into the mix out of nowhere turns out to be a friend of the guy with the missing tooth, and he manages to find them a way to escape... provided they can cough up 300,000 bucks for the getaway.
There's even a scene where the protagonist gives a sea burial to his fallen comrade—the one whose tooth he pulled—laying him out on a wooden surface, covering him with a flag from Turkey that the guy had been carrying around the whole time, and pushing him out into the open ocean.
I found myself feeling skeptical about the movie more than once, but I just couldn't seem to pull myself away. There were constantly these new, intriguing scenes popping up that kept me from changing the channel.
I didn't quite catch it from the very beginning—to be honest, I caught maybe the first twenty seconds before switching over to something else—but I jumped back in right when that trio was setting up their prison break and managed to escape thanks to a guard's help.
The sheer amount of comedic beats is almost unbelievable; they feel like little side quests happening alongside the main plot rather than being built into the core of the story itself. You have two guys plotting an escape, while the third guy just hitches a ride with them and refuses to leave their side, even when they try to shake him off pretty aggressively. At one point, they need to lay low, so they duck into a movie theater and watch a film; the place is practically empty, yet everyone is totally captivated by whatever is playing on the screen. And then there are the comments: "Man, she's gorgeous. I can't believe she's doing that with a dog." Later, during the getaway, one of them gets a massive toothache and threatens to kill the other if he doesn't pull it out using some ancient-looking pliers. Naturally, the guy goes ahead and pulls it. Then, that third guy who wouldn't take a hint (the one who pulled the tooth) finds his... girlfriend or wife (all I know is they have a daughter) and is absolutely over the moon. She’s clearly stressed out, though, because she blew all her cash on clothes after being promised she'd host some major TV show. She spent about 2.5 million dollars, but it doesn't really matter; the fugitive isn't even mad. Then she tells him she's got someone else, but he just shrugs it off, saying it's fine as long as they're together. In the end, he, she, and their daughter wind up on this stone-hauling barge—completely broke, without clothes, without anything.
Basically, it's pure madness.
The way I've described it makes it sound like a straight-up comedy, but it really isn't. To me, it felt like a movie about friendship and those unbreakable bonds that tie people together, as well as the kind of people who would stab you in the back at the drop of a hat—which, in this context, actually serves to make the themes of loyalty and obligation hit much harder. One of the duo ends up betraying his partner and vanishing. Then, this guy who seemingly falls into the mix out of nowhere turns out to be a friend of the guy with the missing tooth, and he manages to find them a way to escape... provided they can cough up 300,000 bucks for the getaway.
There's even a scene where the protagonist gives a sea burial to his fallen comrade—the one whose tooth he pulled—laying him out on a wooden surface, covering him with a flag from Turkey that the guy had been carrying around the whole time, and pushing him out into the open ocean.
I found myself feeling skeptical about the movie more than once, but I just couldn't seem to pull myself away. There were constantly these new, intriguing scenes popping up that kept me from changing the channel.