Too many fans seem to be blown away

Such a frustrating disappointment

ridiculous rating

Just so...so bad

Before succumbing to a regular studio hack in cranking out scripts for standard action fares, Skip Woods dabbles in the director chair with his indie debut THURSDAY, and to this day, he has never directed again.Woods has no compunction to be politically incorrect with the gloves off right in the opening sequences, an Indian supermarket cashier and a black cop are merciless gunned down by a trio of baddies, Nick (Eckhart), Dallas (Porizkova, a towering Czech-born model-turned-actress) and Billy Hill (Le Gros, would soon wallow in his sadistic perversity), yet the joke is bluntly on the inflexible supermarket policy, which spells Woods' intention to tear down the social norm in this blood- spattered action-comedy.Casey (Jane, in his blond prime) is a man who adheres to the norm, he is an architect who has a beautiful but patronizing wife Christine (Marshall) and they are planning to adopt a child to consummate a nuclear family. Only his concealed past will soon catch up with him which completely wrong-foots his endeavor to keep up his urbanite appearances, all on an ordinary Thursday in his own house.After Christine conveniently leaves out of the picture in the early morning, she has to catch a plane for a meeting, Nick comes to visit, and the plot unravels that Casey used to be a drug dealer in L.A. and Nick is his partner (flashy flashback would ensue), it is a heartily sincere reunion but Nick also has his own plan, organizes a grand double-cross deal which inevitably lures a concatenation of insidious characters popping up on Casey's doorstep, including a rapper-wannabe-pusher (Plummer), Dallas, Billy Hill, and a corrupt cop (Rourke), save Dr. Jarvis (Jeter), a representative of the adoption agency, who is the only visitor has the luck of leaving unscathed at the end of that day.The typical male-gazing and misogynous tropes permeates a big chunk of Woods' genre swank, with occasional violence to accent his pulp taste. A jaw-dropping set piece prompts Dallas, seductively rapes an unwilling but duct-taped Casey, it is such an overly gratifying conception germinating from a heterosexual man's wishful-thinking fantasy, a model-figured beauty (who, by the way, is multi-orgasmic) forces herself on a man who loathes her but cannot resist being aroused, a case of body-over-mind complex, which unfortunately pinpoints straight man's intuitive oscillation between objectifying woman for their sex appeal only and a latent aversion to the incomprehensible second sex, and Woods' execution cannot help but leaving a bitter taste in viewers' minds.The two female characters Dallas and Christine is deadly pigeonholed in their one-noted caricature, what Woods contends to present is a true bromance between Nick and Casey, in a period where the said word hasn't been associated with homoerotic undertone, it unexpectedly brings round the largely unsavory tonality, and the story swerves to a different lane when Nick bequeaths all his stolen fortune to Casey with his last breath, that fraternal love becomes rather weirdly touching, only at that belated stage, it would eventually seem quite incongruous with an awkwardly slapdash finale hurrying an ever-improbable diegesis to its finish line, supposedly a happy ending for Casey while a clean slate eventually comes as his reward, that betrays lame filmmaking and storytelling. THURSDAY has steadily established its cult reputation since its inception, in a time where PULP FICTION (1994) has set in motion of the pulpy aesthetics to the fore. Nevertheless, there must be a reason why Skip Woods stops making movie afterward, the fluke of inspiration runs dry quickly, and we will never know what happens to Casey after that life- changing Thursday.

Review: I wasn't that impressed with this dated film which has a silly storyline and a bad script. It all based around an ex-con who gets dragged back into his bad ways when his brother turns up on his doorstep. I wasn't expecting that much from the film because of its age and the fact that I hadn't heard of it when it first came out, but it's watchable and there are some intense moments. It is a poor attempt of a comedy crime caper, by the director, but It didn't hurt damage any of the actors careers. Average! Round-Up: Aaron Eckhart is one of those actors that doesn't get the praise that he deserves. He has starred in some top films like Olympus Has Fallen and The Dark Knight were he put in a good performance as Harvey Dent, but he hasn't become an household name. Thomas Jane is another actor that hasn't really blown up in Hollywood but that is due to the bad attempt at The Punisher, were he played the leading role, and The Deep Blue Sea, which also didn't go down to well.I recommend this movie to people who are into there comedic crime capers about a man who trying to go straight after being in a world of crime. 3/10

This crime drama is an obvious rip off of Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs; the difference being that the aforementioned are both great movies due to the writing genius of Quentin Tarantino. The script of Thursday lacks any of the sarcastic satire of Mr. Tarantino's masterpieces; that being said, I've seen a lot worse in this genre, and the saving grace here is a naked Paulina Porizkova(yes, the sports illustrated swimsuit model) in a bizarre rape-reversal scene and an underused Mickey Rourke as a corrupt cop.The violence is over the top and the eighty four minute running time moves quickly, so the bottom line is a passable film to kill a Saturday night with a possible double feature with a follow up of Boondock Saints(first one & not the sequel), a far superior flick.

This movie is excellent. Not because it does anything special or new, but because it is consistently great in all of its parts. No part stands out as being "ground-breaking" or "stellar", but all parts are far above mediocre, and that makes, to me, an excellent movie.I own several copies of this movie, and may acquire it on collectors DVD or Blu-Ray, someday (holding off right now due to high blu-ray prices, and of course the face that I don't have a blu-ray player... but that's beside the point of this review).It stars off sort of ordinary, but quickly turns into a drama filled with tension, some action, strongly portrayed characters, and a well though out plot which keeps you interested until the very end.Wait, no, it does NOT start out ordinary.It starts out sort of like what a Qun. Tar. movie WISHES it could be. With an awesome scene where an attempt to buy coffee and a donuts goes... very, very wrong.By the end of the movie, nothing was as it seemed, and a few people are dead, and a few people are very rich. I won't tell you who... watch and enjoy! Overall rating: 10/10, A**, Excellent!