Pawn (2013)
A petty robbery spirals into a tense hostage situation after three gunmen hold up a diner that's a front for the mob.
- David A. Armstrong
- Arthur Dix
- Lashawn Garnes
- Jay Anthony White
Rating: 5.6/10 by 173 users
Alternative Title:
Crimes Cruzados - BR
The List - DK
El Asedio - MX
Пионка - BG
Pawn - Wem kannst du vertrauen? - DE
El asedio - AR
Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 28 minutes
Budget: $83,000,000
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: hostage, criminal past, hostage negotiator
Yawn! What started out as a planned easy robbery of a diner, proves to be far more complicated than the robbers ever imagined. An impressive cast that features Forest Whitaker, Ray Liotta and Michael Chiklis fail to liven up this dullard of a movie. A straight to DVD effort that fails to grasp the concept of getting tension from the one location scenario. If it's not the laughable British accents putting you off - or that Whitaker is actually only doing a cameo - it's that the twist and turns still go nowhere fast, serving only to make the hum-drum pacing even more irritable. Some nice photography is a bonus, and the action sequences, while not exciting, are competently staged. But all told it looks like the 15 day shoot that it was, a case of grabbing some name actors and hoping that they can make an intended tricksy screenplay work. It didn't. 4/10
