Sorry, this movie sucks

Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

Sure, its cheesy. Sure, its poorly directed. And sure, its a bad movie. The script could have used more work, and the director could have used a more film classes. But Michael Keaton kills a man with a giant building shaped cigar lighter and shoots another guy with a flare gun with the aid of a US Battleship anti-aircraft cannon. And he has a Dinosaur made out of TVs in his gigantic warehouse of an apartment. Bad Ass, man. Bad ass.When you combine Batman with Commando and throw in some Ghostbusters, you get The Squeeze. Okay, thats not even close. How about mixing The Dream Team with Far Out Man and a touch of Hudson Hawk. There you go. thats The Squeeze cocktail i'm talking about.Seriously, I haven't seen this movie since i was, like, 9, so i really only remember the above-mentioned instances in the film. And the whole lottery scam thing. whatever that was about. i still love this film. it belongs up there with Robot Jox. Yes...Robot Jox.

I remember watching this years ago. It was one of several comedies Michael Keaton made in the 80's, but you can see him beginning to stretch a bit beyond his cornball comedy roles (e.g. Night Shift, Mr. Mom, Gung Ho, Johnny Dangerously). You can just see a hint of the dramatic (and dark) flair he would reveal a few years later in Beetle Juice and Batman.The movie itself is pretty contrived, although it has a great supporting cast. It was fun to see Meat Loaf (whose character is always sweaty, and carries around a battery-operated fan to keep cool) and John Davidson (who essentially plays...himself!).

"The Squeeze" is one of those movies that sadly doesn't work. Keaton's colorful performance can't save a convoluted script that tries to juggle wild comedy with thriller elements. There is a line in the climax that oddly summarized the film in a nutshell. "Its seems like your imagination has finally outpaced reality," one character says. It was so uncanny how well this phrase described the film that I began to think the writer, Daniel Tiplitz, was making a reference to himself! "The Squeeze" is a film with a realistic grounding, but is stuffed with outlandish, completely far-fetched ideas. Watching the film felt like viewing a dream of seeing the movie itself (if this makes any sense at all). I realized this when I tried describing scenes of the film and found it was much like describing a dream. It starts out pleasant enough with a shady poker game where Michael Keaton hilariously tries to bluff the other guys at the table, but doesn't manage to be the least bit convincing. It was an acceptable beginning, but things were thrown completely off course when he gets home to his apartment that has a large rhino made out of TV screens sitting in it!Anyway, Keaton gets mixed up with a young PI (Rae Dawn Chong) who uncovers lottery corruption. They try to piece a muddled mystery together, but the film is so out-there that the deeply buried story becomes lost. This isn't exactly a problem, however. I had an enormously fun time viewing the film, no matter how much it descends into bomb territory.Unfortunately, nothing can stop the fact that this is pretty bad movie. It has a confused story, needless characters and some overly-violent scenes.There is some fun to bad had here, and Michael Keaton is a riot as usual, but it simply doesn't work.(2 out of 4)

THE SQUEEZE is a pathetic excuse for a film, let alone a comedy. Michael Keaton stars with Rae Dawn Chong in this awful film about a guy who gets caught up in a crime rap of some sorts. People would rather go play in the park instead of watching this pure waste of celluloid. A wasted cast and a tedious script easily makes this one of the most worthless flops in cinema history.0 out of 5