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Good concept, poorly executed.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Let me start this review with 3 funny facts about this flick: First one, "Hard Cash" could be played as a 'Six Degrees of Christian Slater' trivia game: Slater & Val Kilmer were also together in "True Romance" & "Mindhunters"; Slater & Bokeem Woodbine in "3000 Miles to Graceland"; Slater & Balthazar Getty in "Young Guns 2" and so on... Second, if in the late 80's to the early 90's this pack of promising leading stars had a time machine to look up what they will end up doing: Val Kilmer that came from "Top Gun", "The Doors" & "Tombstone"; Christian Slater from "The Name of the Rose"; "Pump Up the Volume" or "Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves" and Darryl Hannah from "Splash", "Roxanne" & "Wall Street", it would be a riot. Third, "Hard Cash" it's just a plot rehash of several other movies that this group of actors were previous in, such as Slater's "Hard Rain" or "3000 Miles to Graceland"; Kilmer's "Kill Me Again" in a "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" character mode; William Forsythe doing what he does best, playing an effective douchebag & Peter Jason in a short cameo almost reprising his way similar character from "Johnny Handsome". The team behind "The Expendables" franchise produced it in a direct-to- DVD low budget style: the sets are cheap looking; the action sequences poorly staged; the plot is a mess; the direction is pedestrian and the performances all around are over-the-top caricatures, so why in the hell is this movie so entertaining ? Maybe because it's so twisted & off-beat, sometimes looks like a straight action / thriller / heist flick and others just a parody of the genre, that lifts up its own watchable factor ? Or the cast full of well-known (more like has-been's...) faces that signed to act in it just desperate for the dime that enhanced what it could have been a thrash can movie to a level of capture the morbid curiosity of the movie-goer ? (Well, even the Mini-Me guy from "Austin Powers" is in it...) Sincerely, I do not know, but in the meanwhile this movie works as a pure escapist B-grade flick for an uncritical viewer which accepts hitchhike this ride into the almost realms of absurdism. Footnote: For movie buffs, "Hard Cash" reminds me a lot of the B-movie director Gene Quintano's works such as "Honeymoon Academy"; "Why Me ?" or "Loaded Weapon 1": cheap made; frantic pacing and an unpretentious sense of surrealism in comedy.

first off, the sound track on this movie was horrible. the writing was also horrible. to get two great actors such as Slater and Kilmer together and to let the writing kill the film is horrible. the good thing about this movie was the supporting cast. these young stars have all shown skill in other movies, and do a decent job in this. as usual, Hannah is the blond bombshell that gets men to do whatever she wants. It would be nice to see her actually act sometime. Slater pulls the job off in portraying a father that does what he can to take care of his family. The script though was just so unreasonable. Because of the interaction between the supporting cast,and between father and daughter, this movie is OK, it is a 5 out of 10. But as always, the writers should have worked harder. Only nice touch about it was that there were no fancy cars owned by the thieves except for the gangsters. Kilmer does a good job as a crooked cop, I could feel that in him. Decent movie if you want a little bit of action, a little bit of suspense and a lot of horrible writing!

I think the one line summary says it all. If you know the movie Hard Rain (also with Christian Slater) you may notice some similarities. The only difference here is that Slater is one of the "bad guys" (he's not really bad at all) now and there is no single drop of rain. Everything else is pretty the same. Slater who plays the smart guy who has to get out of many tricky situations. But the way he does it is not very thrilling or cutting-edge. While I really like Hard Rain, this movie is just pathetic. The characters seem really stereo type and not very interesting at all. Same thing with the action scenes and the story. At the end this movie is something what you've seen a thousand times before in other Hollywood action movies. Or in one word, it's just boring.

of course this is the most horrible movie ever seen in my life. watching it was so painful........... so don't watch it even if you get it for free.