The Smoke (2014)
5/10
FREE YOUR MIND
8 September 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Possible midpoint plot spoiler.

Brad Walker (Matt Di Angelo) gets his walking papers in the first few minutes of the film and his girlfriend also leaves him (Anna Passey) for his friend Tom (Christian Brassington). While doing a few lines on a bowl in a nightclub he overhears about a drop-off which he copies down because...he does. Then by coincidence the car doing the drop off just so happens to stop in front of the little cafe he is sitting at...facing the license plate of said car. While the driver leaves for a quick pit stop, Brad steals the car, makes the drop, collects the cash in what would seem to be a clean get away. Not only unbelievably do the bad guys figure out it is him, but a high price mobster prostitute lands in his lap the same day.

Now I don't mind one or two freakish events in a story. Heck, if you are going for a weird cult film, the more the merrier. However this film lacks the over the top grindhouse style to get away with a bunch of stuff that just wouldn't happen. I found the main characters to be dull. Our two stooges who botched things up were the only decently written characters as the talked about films, i.e. "Godfather vs Star Wars."

Could have been better.

F-bomb, sex, nudity (Lili Bordán, Anna Passey, Lindsay Armaou, Funda Önal, Nicola Kelleher ?)
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