FBI agent, Davies, comes into contact with a bag of money, but he's in a some-what-long line of people who do. The people who run the gaming casino in the desert want it back. Davies witnesses murder while trying to keep it. Rapaport is a crooked cop who comes into contact with it and sends it to 29 Palms (hence, the name). But it's not the right bag when he picks it up.
Davies comes into contact with a waitress (Cook) out on the highway and I never did find out how she came into contact with it. In my mind, this story drifted all over the place. About the time the film focuses on one person, a set of flashbacks drift it to someone else. And to top it off, the photography was poor, also. In one shot, people are yelling because someone gets shot (can't give the rest of it away), but you don't see the shooting taking place. No sounds, just a bunch of swearing all of a sudden because of a little fire the bullet started. Funny what a bag of money will do to people, huh?
As I said, there is no reality to this film. We all know what we would do if we had that kind of money, but the real question in all of us is, "How far would we be willing to go to keep it?" Too many characters in this film trying to be the main focus of the film is, in my mind, its downfall (and it keeps falling from there).
Davies comes into contact with a waitress (Cook) out on the highway and I never did find out how she came into contact with it. In my mind, this story drifted all over the place. About the time the film focuses on one person, a set of flashbacks drift it to someone else. And to top it off, the photography was poor, also. In one shot, people are yelling because someone gets shot (can't give the rest of it away), but you don't see the shooting taking place. No sounds, just a bunch of swearing all of a sudden because of a little fire the bullet started. Funny what a bag of money will do to people, huh?
As I said, there is no reality to this film. We all know what we would do if we had that kind of money, but the real question in all of us is, "How far would we be willing to go to keep it?" Too many characters in this film trying to be the main focus of the film is, in my mind, its downfall (and it keeps falling from there).