The Bag Man (2014)

Truly Dreadful Film

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I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

I was curious what was in the bag. I will turn off a movie after 10 minutes if I'm bored, but not this movie. Had good actors who did a good job. I would watch it again.

This ons is a weird one to review. Looking through other reviews, most people gave it negative reviews, calling it predictable or whatnot. First things firsts, I thought acting was fine. Nothing top notch, but fine. Cusack's role, Jack, is likeable and, even though he's some sort of hitman, you care for him.The plot is strange, to say the least, but I guess that's because everything is roughly explained. Some acts are odd and makes no sense. I mean, the beginning of the movie seems like the director lost part of the footage and had to come up with something. One act with De Niro and Hodge didn't fit the overall movie plot, to me at least.It was obvious that staying in motel room 13 wasn't going to be an easy task. What I thought was weird is that everybody is after that goddamn bag, even though none of them seems to know what's inside it.Of course every act is explained in the finale, and when that happens, it leaves a weird impression. De Niro's motives seems dumb and uninspired, but then again, if you come to think of it, it's pretty much the same with any mob boss impersonation in any movie.I thought it was an OK movie to watch. It kept me hanging, wandering what was in the bag, but I must say I wasn't overly attached to knowing what was inside of it, questioning every act and so on. I was only following the story and trying to make sense of it.It was a fine movie to waste some time in a quiet Saturday afternoon.

I love weird movies, but this is just trying way, way too hard. The Serbian midget; the one-eyed pimp; the currency-trading, private 727-owning mob boss; the Amazonian hooker/assassin; etc. was all too much. This has got to have gone straight to video, even though it starred both Robert De Niro and John Cusack. It never clicks, even though it does have a few surprising reveals, especially at the end. As the person who watched it with me commented, it's totally clichéd quirkiness--way too forced and strained, coming off much like a second-rate David Lynch movie. It probably looked pretty good in script form, but just didn't come together. Also, if it matters to you, there was not a single decent, likable, or sympathetic character in the entire movie. Everyone and everything is bleak, pretty much from beginning to end.

A touch of noir slips into this crime caper. A hit man named Jack(John Cusack)is summoned to a seedy motel deep in the Bayou by a dangerous crime boss named Dragna(Robert De Niro). Jack is offered a handsome compensation, but he must complete a slight chore of picking up a bag and wait in the Louisiana hotel. Jack is ordered to not open the bag. The hit man is hold up in room 13 and while waiting realizes that Dragna ordered a dozen more hired killers to do the same.A bit antsy, and you've already come to your own conclusion for a finale several times before closing credits. This movie runs about 1 hr. 49 min and Mr. De Niro is on screen almost 40 of those minutes. Who got their money's worth this time? Also in the cast: Crispin Glover, Rebecca Da Costa, Martin Klebba, Dominic Purcell, David Shambris and Kirk 'Sticky Fingaz' Jones.