When the dog got killed I laughed, soft-hearted dog lover that I am, because the Dog was standing in for the Square. (And what a dog! Able to race through neighborhoods, swim a river and then run through yet another neighborhood to find his cutie!) Come to think of it, the two owners of the dogs, in the opening sequence, while hooking up, had both dogs in the same car. Maybe the director's cut will open on the two dogs having a go of it and then pan over to Ray and Carla getting it on.
But seriously..... By not showing a compelling reason, other than sex, in even one scene, I had increasing difficulty over Ray's willingness to dump everything for the sake of his sex mate. And jumping to the end of the movie, after a badly staged scene of Carla getting killed.....and the camera-on-a-crane showing a disconsolate and bloody Ray walking down the street away from the carnage, one is supposed to say 'tsk-tsk' poor guy. But I didn't have any sympathy for either Carla or Ray at that point. How do you sympathize with characters who have little character and who you don't like?
Other more technical annoyances were a couple of impenetrable accents and also poor casting choices which made it confusing to know who was who.
Why did Lenny steal the generator? And what did he have on Ray?
It also wasn't enough to kill, in a road accident, the suspicious foreman but the writers had to also place an infant in the vehicle.
After a break in, wouldn't the obvious thing to happen, with all the materials lying around, be the hiring of a security guard?
And pray tell how did the boss-of-bosses and the law know about the blackmailing? More important, how were they going to resolve the serious breach of the law that they were involved in?
There really were more silly things gathering along the way but you get the idea.....
But seriously..... By not showing a compelling reason, other than sex, in even one scene, I had increasing difficulty over Ray's willingness to dump everything for the sake of his sex mate. And jumping to the end of the movie, after a badly staged scene of Carla getting killed.....and the camera-on-a-crane showing a disconsolate and bloody Ray walking down the street away from the carnage, one is supposed to say 'tsk-tsk' poor guy. But I didn't have any sympathy for either Carla or Ray at that point. How do you sympathize with characters who have little character and who you don't like?
Other more technical annoyances were a couple of impenetrable accents and also poor casting choices which made it confusing to know who was who.
Why did Lenny steal the generator? And what did he have on Ray?
It also wasn't enough to kill, in a road accident, the suspicious foreman but the writers had to also place an infant in the vehicle.
After a break in, wouldn't the obvious thing to happen, with all the materials lying around, be the hiring of a security guard?
And pray tell how did the boss-of-bosses and the law know about the blackmailing? More important, how were they going to resolve the serious breach of the law that they were involved in?
There really were more silly things gathering along the way but you get the idea.....