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movie review - Suicide Kings

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Entertaining but a little disappointing. Aging gangsters and loser rich-kid dimwits. It can only go so far. The plot is about two kidnappings. The first is of the twentyish daughter of a wealthy figure (who never appears in the film). The second is of a reformed gangster, an associate of the father with connections to people who can fix the first kidnapping.

After a few shootings, a severed finger, some recreational substance use and some paranoiac thinking, things are about as tightly wound as they can get.

The attempted humour is largely based on the typical dum-dum characterization of the gangsters, which doesn't fit terribly well with the tension among the overly serious scenario with Walken and his captors.

Not recommended.