Final Move (2006)
The LA police are baffled: someone is killing people who have been found innocent of violent crimes. At the crime scenes, DNA evidence and clues linked to chess point to a suspect who's dead, recently executed for murders with a similar M.O. The cops call on Dan Marlowe, an ex-cop with psychic gifts, in an asylum after the trauma of the initial investigation. His wife wants him to say no; her brother is his former partner, who leans on Dan to help. Dan's ex-lover, an FBI agent, is also on the case, and behind the scenes is Myron, Dan's chess partner at the asylum. The game turns more deadly when Dan and family become the target. Did the cops initially get the wrong man?
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Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Start off with the directing. While brother John may have been able to get away with being a low talent writer and director- thanks to his undeserved Oscar for Rocky- Joey has a big zero in the talent department. While his actors are truly of the B-list caliber, his directing lowers their performances to a D- level. Their performances could easily be outdone by actors of adult films.And let's not forget the so-called authors of this play who covered no new ground but ripped off at least a dozen other manuscripts and screenplays to come up with an obvious ending. Then we finish with the tired cliché' of concluding the story by telling everything through a final meaningful dialogue.PS: As a retired police officer would someone tell these fools that that they are carrying their pistols wrong (do not bend the off-side elbow), and cops do NOT put their flashlights in front of them because that is exactly where the bad guys will aim! Duh!
"Final Move" is a disappointment, especially considering the B-list cast and director. I have very low standards when it comes to flicks like these.The plot is: The chess piece killer is at it again. After his last victim, he is caught and sentenced to death. After his execution, the killings don't stop. Which is weird for detective Marlowe (Schulze) who has psychic vision. He teams up with Roman Krieg (Lochlyn Munro) to stop the madness."Final Move" tries hard (too hard) to be a slick mystery-thriller. The opening credits are snazzy, but the opening scene is downright horrible: after the killer murders some woman, he takes off his mask and starts laughing for about ten minutes. You'll see.David Carradine and Daniel Baldwin don't have a lot of screen time despite their mugs on the cover. Schulze is alright, but his best role is in "The Transporter". The explosion near the end is faker than Milli Vanilli.If you like the actors, don't subject yourself to this mess.For more insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com
Yup, that's right, I joined IMDb just so I could add a comment about this movie. To anyone thinking of watching it?... RUN. take a nap, go play with your dog, go shopping, do ANYTHING but watch this! Amanda Detmer; what have you done!? She is the only one in the movie who seems to be able to act, and lowers herself considerably by being associated with this film. Lochlyn Monroe? I think I have now seen 2 or three movies he's in, one I can think of off the top of my head is Blacktop (thinking of watching it?... take the advice I have given regarding THIS movie and apply it to Blacktop) Low Budget? try NO budget. if they had one? they blew it paying Amanda. Overall, the movie has a bad and predictable script, and of the plethora of bad acting in the movie to choose from, the winner is Rachel Hunter. It's actually quite annoying, not only are her acting skills virtually non existent, but she also seems to have difficulty deciding if she has a British accent or not... sometimes she does, sometimes she doesn't. So, to sum up, this movie is horrible, so save your rental money, and more importantly, save your time and brain cells, take a nap, and thank me in the morning.
Dan Marlowe (Matt Schulze perhaps best known as a supporting player in the entertaining, but vacant "The Transporter" ) is a former cop who was so traumatized by his previous murder case that he has a nervous breakdown and loses his job. Years later, he's brought back to help on a case that's directly involved with the one all those years ago. All the abilities of the 'name' actors in this film (all two of them) David Carradine, and Daniel Baldwin are wasted in the minor roles of an under-acted police chief and a wildly overacted criminal, respectively. But perhaps I just choose to focus on those two because the rest of the film is completely mundane in every single way and full of enough clichés as to cause an unflattering sense of deja vu. Some movies just scream 'Direct to DVD release'. This is one of those that wears it on it's sleeve and definitely not in any good way. It must be so very tough to live in the shadow of a much more famous brother. But Director Joey Travolta doesn't do himself any favors by continuing to churn out movies of this 'caliber'. When the best thing on one's resume is a writing credit for a silly little action movie starring Anna Nicole Smith....well that just speaks for itself now doesn't it?? My Grade: D-Eye Candy: Lyndsay Griffin gets topless