The Worst Film Ever

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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.

The film wasn't much good but what got me really distracted was Sofia (Bulgaria) trying to look like New York. Another sign that there was not much money to back this project (otherwise they would have at least tried Toronto). Of course it doesn't look as NY at all, for the whole movie I was trying to guess where in the world it was filmed (I guessed rightly that it was in Europe). Slater and Hannah definitely deserve something better than this cliché' full of scenes already seen in other not so great films. Certainly they aren't the best actors around but their and others' performances are what keeps together this lame attempt of a film.

Try to mix comedy with gangsterism along with a bad cop plot and what do you get? A movie called HARD CASH. Two of my favorite actors, Kilmer and Slater caused me to watch this horrific excuse for a, I guess, suspenseful movie, or what ever it was suppose to be. The chase scenes I was able to fast forward; they were a waste of time. But there in is some of the comedy. And then the heists; well, some what believable with lots of planning. And the ending is some what contrived. For shame, for shame on both Kilmer and Slater. If you have a dull evening with nothing better to do, take a nap, or watch HARD CASH.

I recently saw this dvd in a bargain bin for £4 and out of curiosity bought it. I have been a fan of Christian Slaters movies for some time and it was so sad to see a brilliant actor reduced by such god awful directing.Hard Cash is a good movie screaming to get out of a s***e one, scenes involving Kilmer and Slater are actually pretty good, they bounce of each other well and Val Kilmer does camp,pompous villain far better than he does batman !!!. Verne Troyer has a great character who should have been used more (However 'Attila' is not funny, clever or ironic as his character name) and the actual idea of the film isn't that bad.The problem is the editing/directing. Predrag whatzizface turns this movie into a joke, over use of the dodgy car chase scenes and the constant flicking to irrelevant shots just annoy the viewer.I didn't hate this movie, but I just feel that a monkey could have edited it better!! With the cast available and the technology these days I cant believe how visually poor this film is.Pull it back, give all the film to a proper director and let him go to work. There is a watchable and enjoyable movie hidden in this mess. Maybe they should have spent a little more 'hard cash' on the crew!!I can only imagine what was left on the cutting room floor.Thats my 2 cents