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I'm Godzilla and you're Tokyo
That is the only good line in this entire movie, in part because it describes the relationship between the movie and you, the gentle viewer. You would think this film might be good, just due to the eclectic list of actors (Jack Warden! Christopher Walken! Treat Williams! That guy from "Hudsucker Proxy"!). But you would be so, so wrong. <
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>"Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead" badly wants to be "Reservoir Dogs" or "Pulp Fiction." Indeed, you can compare this movie to "Reservoir Dogs" on a macro level, like the screenwriter obviously did. Getting some criminals together at some dive restaurant and assembling a gang for a job? Check. Job goes wrong in the middle of the movie? Check. Crazy guy on the crew? Check. The team has to deal with the consequences of their failure? Check. Hey, all that the writer forgot to check off on his list was interesting dialogue, plot, and some sense of style. The screenplay lies there like some dude that got whacked, and completely wastes the talent of the cast. The dialogue and pacing are atrocious, but who needs pacing when you never get anywhere plotwise? <
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>For a movie that references the city of Denver in the title, this movie has less of a sense of place than a TV sitcom. You never get the feeling you're in Denver, or anywhere in particular for that matter. Even the expensive yet pointless crane shot in the very first scene (a warning sign from frame 1 of this garbage) doesn't provide any kind of "Denverness" to this movie. <
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>This is by far the worst of the Tarantino clones of the 90s. Truly awful in every way, it is a film to be avoided at all costs. If you're in the video store on Friday night and this is all that's left, it's a sign that you should turn off the TV that night and go to the pub instead.

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Andy Garcia's best performance among a stellar cast.
I often wonder if director's purposely set out to cast as many eccentrics as possible. We've seen it when Abel Ferrara cast Willem Dafoe and Chris Walken in New Rose Hotel, combining seemingly two of the most bizarre actors in Hollywood. And don't forget At Close Range, which combined Crispin Glover and Walken. Also, Steve Buscemi and Walken were together in Pulp Fiction. Are you noticing a common element? That's right: Walken. <
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>He's here in a bit, but pivotal, role as a mob boss who employs reformed former associate Jimmy "The Saint"(Garcia), nicknamed The Saint due to his former aspirations to be a priest, to do a simple "action." Well, Jimmy and his crew screw up BIG TIME and the crime boss, known on the streets as the "man with the plan", tells Jimmy to leave town or else..... <
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>Jimmy has a moral conflict due to the fact that "the man with the plan" resfuses to offer Jimmy's crew the same mercies. Things gradually digress, with Jimmy's crew finding themselves the victims of a progression of assassinations at the hands of one Steve Buscemi, known here as Mr. Shhh. <
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>A very good film with many name-brand actors. Andy Garcia does a phenomenal job here, a job that is the best I've seen from him - ever. Here's a list of actors from this film that you'll either know by name of by face. <
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>Christopher Lloyd - yep, Doc Brown himself <
>Gabrielle Anwar - best known as Chris O'Donnel's fling in Scent of A Woman <
>Jack Warden - Big Al from Problem Child <
>Treat Williams - Bill Pulman lookalike <
>Fairuza Balk - Vicky Valencourt from The Water Boy <
>William Forsythe - Flatop from Dick Tracy, also plays cops a lot, as he did in The Devil's Rejects. <
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>Between Balk, Buscemi, Walken, Forsythe, and Lloyd, Gary Fleder has grouped a collection of some of the most bizarre character actors in Hollywood. The affect is fun, though, as you see many faces and names amid this tremendous screenplay and plot. <
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>This is one of the more underrated films I've ever seen. The only problem with this film is that is came out in 1995, not a good year for a film to try to shine with films like Heat, Leaving Las Vegas, Casino, Seven,and The Usual Suspects gaining much attention in terms of the crime/city genre. <
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an all star cast in an empty post Trantino style movie
Andy Garcia (Twisted, The Unsaid) who has a few good moments in this movie, plays Jimmy The Saint who is assigned by a parapalegic Christopher Walken (Wedding Crashers, Envy) who's already played this character before only this time he has no feelings in his legs, you see and Walken, he tells Garcia to do a job and so Garcia assembles his crew of 4, William Forsythe (The Devil's Rejects, The Rock), Bill Nunn (Spider-man movies), Christopher Llyod (Back to the Future trilogy) and a crazy as hell Treat Williams (Deep Rising) but the problem is, of course, the job goes terribly wrong so Walken tells Garcia him and his boys have so many hours before his hitman, played by Steve Buscemi (Armageddon, Reservoir Dogs), who has the coolest name for a hitman, Mr. Shhh, comes and kills them all. Garcia then goes crazy, he also has falling in love with sexy Gabrielle Anwar (The Grave) and he doesnt want her in jepoardy and he also is trying to help out this girl who works the streets and so on and so for. Really empty drama thriller with an all star cast and the cast are the following: Jack Warden, Bill Cobbs (Air Bud), Fairuza Balk (The Water Boy), Glenn Plummer (Speed movies), Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Crash), Josh Charles (Four Brothers), Jenny McCarthy (BASEketball), Marshall Bell (Starship Troopers), Tommy Tiny Lister, Jr. (5th Element), Sarah Trigger (PCU) amd Don Stark (That 70's Show). All that in a so-so post Tarantino style movie.