Review of Crime Spree (2003) by Helen P — 16 Apr 2008

Funny, but in the kind of way that sometimes the comedy turns out to be stupid. Or maybe it's supposed to be like that? I'm not too sure, but I still enjoyed watching it.

Believe it or not the story was actually quite clever at some points, a nice idea. It's like any other crime movie I guess, only this had that humor you don't normally get. From the cover and reading about it I had no idea it would be this much of a comedy, it took over from the action. There were only a few shots fired (If you don't count that last scene where there's too many to count), and yet the comedy stayed from the beginning until the end. Sure, most of the time the reason to laugh would be that it's stupid, others that they actually made a good joke.

Well for starters I can say that Gérard Depardieu annoyed me. I know he's been in some other good movies but I just don't like him as an actor. Harvey Keitel on the other hand I really liked. There were quite a few other well-known actors in this, I it was just average acting. Perhaps slightly below average for some.

Overall a funny ride, but that doesn't make it a brilliant movie. They could have used the story for a more serious movie, but it couldn't have worked either. It's a comedy that's not half bad.