This film is billed as a thriller, and it does have its share of action. It has known actors playing the lead roles, but unfortunately the story is not as well written as it could be. The premise is good, but there is not enough character development, and so leaves the audience wanting more. The action sequences are good, and special effects aren't bad. It obviously was shot on a limited budget, but that really doesn't detract from the film. Bottom line is that it is a watchable film, even entertaining. It just never achieves what most would expect due to a inconsistently crafted story. Worth watching on a rainy day.
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bemyfriend-401848 December 2021
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Noir farce. Very nineties feel, with the smeary, blurry look of old grindhouse film. Absurdist humor. Funny and fun, until the end. All of sudden, the girl who a moment before was desperately snatching bills from a fire, smiles knowingly. The ship blows up; but somehow, she wasn't on it. "Genius," says John, while she clinks champagne with some woman, (the one shot by the cops?) on a speedboat. But who says it had to make sense? It's funny, right? Seen on Tubi, the free streaming site; which has a number of odd films, and now, live TV.
Action a-plenty!
JohnHowardReid20 February 2018
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This movie offers a large cast, but it's crammed so full of furious action, it's a bit difficult to follow the plot. I watched the film twice, and I'm still not wholly satisfied that I learnt all the ins and outs of the scenario. In fact, I'm beginning to think that it deliberately moved so fast in order to cover up situations that were certainly tense but somewhat lacking in credibility.
Everyone has guns! Big guns! There's not much time to get to know the characters, let alone share their fears in what seems to be a relentless shooting spree. TV style close-ups abound!
Whichever way you look at it, the story doesn't make much sense. Action, particularly gun action, is so fast and furious, you are left with no time to ponder the plot, let alone acquaint yourself with the large number of talkative characters who shoot first and ask questions later!
Everyone has guns! Big guns! There's not much time to get to know the characters, let alone share their fears in what seems to be a relentless shooting spree. TV style close-ups abound!
Whichever way you look at it, the story doesn't make much sense. Action, particularly gun action, is so fast and furious, you are left with no time to ponder the plot, let alone acquaint yourself with the large number of talkative characters who shoot first and ask questions later!
I can't believe I watched the whole thing.
=G=2 January 2002
It's impossible to know what the director had in mind for this awful attempt at film making. "Dangerous Curves" tells of a lawyer (R. Carradine) who becomes involved in....um, a silly mess of a story which seems to be trying to be some kind of film noir detective story with maybe a comedy bent or something. Whatever it is, it doesn't work as drama noir, satire, comedy, farce, etc. It just plain sucks. Casting is awful, acting ill timed and poorly directed, action is mostly cheap foot chases for filler or poorly staged fire fights, etc. The list of complaints is too long for this forum. Suffice it to say, stay away from this sophomoric travesty of film making.
hot sweet sick
wes-8522 September 2004
I cant remember where i was subjected to this film. but i do remember the twisted plot and crazy cast I also remember that I came away from that film,.... with a hot sweet sickish feeling, "you know, like when the plane lands, after a 7 hour flight, and then you sit, on the Tarmac in the hot sun breathing in the smell of old people" It was a very hard to follow Plot to say the least. It was done by Roger Corman. The same cat who did little shop of horrors.
ugh
pjstorms26 November 2004
I wish that I could have the choice of zero stars for rating this movie, but since 1 is the lowest choice offered, I had to give it a star. I thought that I had seen the worst movies in the world when I watched Pervirella, Turtle Diary, and Xanadu, but for sheer inanity, pointlessness, and waste of time, nothing beats Dangerous Curves. When I watched it, I could have sworn that it was made some time in the '80s, considering how dated the costumes, "acting", and story line were. The plot made no sense, the characters weren't realistic (although the director appeared to be making some attempt to make the film realistic - it wasn't a farce), the acting was lousy, and a lot of the sound effects didn't synch up with the action. Someone please tell me why this movie was made!
Please Lemmie Out!
Loomis_Orange7 January 2005
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I was laughing my butt off the entire time this movie was playing. To say it's a comedy is a masterpiece of understatement. The lawyer (robert carradine) is sitting in his office when his secretary shows him a snapshot of her vacation. The lawyer recognizes a woman in the picture as the murderous thief babe that he'd fallen in love with while getting her off on her murder charge. The His secretary gives him the address of the hotel they stayed in where the chick in the picture works behind the counter .. Okay, He meets her. In her apartment he meets her. She tries seduction on him and then excuses herself out of the room for a trip down stairs to a Flower Truck. The lawyer stands in the room for awhile. A few seconds later he's offered a beer by a wife-less drunken neighbor with a handful of long necks that he'd met while both were trying to make it to the second floor via the stairs. Lawyer casually walks into bedroom where he finds the dead bloody corpse of a fat guy. Neighbor slowly follows. He sees! He gasps! He runs for the police in three quarter time thinking that the innocent lawyer has committed the gristly crime.
Lawyer Runs.
Enter Marina Carradine and friends:
Man - hating smirking Dyke types complete in black leather and chains who are extremely fond of carrying sliced off male reproductive organs in jars of formaldehyde.
Lawyer runs very fast
Steals motorcycle and runs into scared upstairs neighbor on bicycle
Enter David Carradine:
Lemmie is a half-wit retarded flower Shop owner who's in love with the vixen babe. He does for her anything she asks. He's her dupe and would die for her in a heartbeat.
Enter about 3 guys -- One with a tattoo on his shaved head. I don't know what they're doing in the picture but their villains of some kind.
Lawyer runs
His stolen car plasters into the upstairs neighbor who's hobbling his bicycle back into town
One sex scene between lawyer and vixen in a cave with blow-up doll on floor
Money!
The vixen stole money!
The Dyke's want the money!
The shaved-heads wants the money!
Lemme doesn't want the money...
Lawyer doesn't want the money...
Vixon dies in a fire for the money
Hey wait a minute - No she don't!
Lawyer Runs.
Enter Marina Carradine and friends:
Man - hating smirking Dyke types complete in black leather and chains who are extremely fond of carrying sliced off male reproductive organs in jars of formaldehyde.
Lawyer runs very fast
Steals motorcycle and runs into scared upstairs neighbor on bicycle
Enter David Carradine:
Lemmie is a half-wit retarded flower Shop owner who's in love with the vixen babe. He does for her anything she asks. He's her dupe and would die for her in a heartbeat.
Enter about 3 guys -- One with a tattoo on his shaved head. I don't know what they're doing in the picture but their villains of some kind.
Lawyer runs
His stolen car plasters into the upstairs neighbor who's hobbling his bicycle back into town
One sex scene between lawyer and vixen in a cave with blow-up doll on floor
Money!
The vixen stole money!
The Dyke's want the money!
The shaved-heads wants the money!
Lemme doesn't want the money...
Lawyer doesn't want the money...
Vixon dies in a fire for the money
Hey wait a minute - No she don't!
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