This is not a great movie, nor does it profess to be, but I've seen far worse. It can be a bleak and violent noir, and if one looks too hard beneath the cracks of the plot, you might conclude that a lot of this is not believable. However, it maintained a decent air of tension throughout the film, and I was interested in how it would turn out.
Set in upstate New York, it stars two actors whom I like quite a lot in Alice Eve and Bryan Cranston. Eve portrays Chloe, who manages and is part-owner of a seedy motel frequented by prostitutes and drug users. She's in danger of losing custody of her young daughter Sophia (Ursula Parker) to the State, unless she moves her to a more suitable environment.
Cranston plays Topo (sporting a terrible foreign accent), who's going blind but acting as a "mule' transporting a great deal of cash to Canada with his nephew Quincy. However, when they get two separate rooms for the night at Chloe's motel, Quincy gets into an altercation with a prostitute and they're both killed.
When the police impound Quincy's Jeep as evidence, Topo forces Chloe to try and retrieve the money, which had been stashed behind the radio, or he will kill her daughter. Chloe's partner in the motel is Billy, believably portrayed by Logan Marshall Green, who's a wacko and crooked cop and may have already stolen the money out of the impounded Jeep.
From this point, they'll be plenty of murder and mayhem to come. I thought it all ended up in a fairly credible way.
All in all, this film, directed by Tze Chen, was a fairly decent escape flick, if you don't mind the violence and can overlook the plot holes.
Set in upstate New York, it stars two actors whom I like quite a lot in Alice Eve and Bryan Cranston. Eve portrays Chloe, who manages and is part-owner of a seedy motel frequented by prostitutes and drug users. She's in danger of losing custody of her young daughter Sophia (Ursula Parker) to the State, unless she moves her to a more suitable environment.
Cranston plays Topo (sporting a terrible foreign accent), who's going blind but acting as a "mule' transporting a great deal of cash to Canada with his nephew Quincy. However, when they get two separate rooms for the night at Chloe's motel, Quincy gets into an altercation with a prostitute and they're both killed.
When the police impound Quincy's Jeep as evidence, Topo forces Chloe to try and retrieve the money, which had been stashed behind the radio, or he will kill her daughter. Chloe's partner in the motel is Billy, believably portrayed by Logan Marshall Green, who's a wacko and crooked cop and may have already stolen the money out of the impounded Jeep.
From this point, they'll be plenty of murder and mayhem to come. I thought it all ended up in a fairly credible way.
All in all, this film, directed by Tze Chen, was a fairly decent escape flick, if you don't mind the violence and can overlook the plot holes.