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This film is a strong candidate to the Ten Worst films in Movie History list.(There are a lot of them running at this time) I quit after seeing thirty minutes of it. It's pretty dangerous seeing such a piece of wasted footage like this. Stupidity is highly contagious as everybody should know.

Is this the worst movie ever made? No, it's still better than "The Lonely Lady," but it's pretty bad. The most amazing thing about it is the dialogue. It's pseudo-deep, but utterly meaningless. Character A utters an overwrought line that has nothing to do with the plot or current events in the movie. Character B responds with an overwrought line that has nothing to do with anything Character A said. The poor actors torture the lines pathetically in a hopeless attempt to make them sound as if they aren't meaningless, but really deep. I can't imagine how the actors prepared for these roles. "Okay, what's my motivation saying something that makes no sense at all either in terms of my character or the movie at this point?" You can imagine the writer twisting out yet another line of drivel, sitting back and saying, "Damn I'm good." And the director saying, "Look, I know it doesn't make any sense, but try to act like you feel it, okay? You *are* getting a paycheck for this, after all."

It could have been a good movie. The premise is interesting, and Pare is a good actor that holds his lines well. Unfortunately, everything about the cinematography was mediocre. The movie was based on a "tour" of strip clubs, and for the amount of depravity shown, there is surprisingly little skin, something that detracts from the allure. The film is filled with guns that hold unlimited ammo and with guys that can shoot 40 bullets from 2 meters away and never hit you. I saw it and enjoyed the action scenes, but I won't see it a second time.

I would love to see a sequel to this one. Of all the movies that have sequels,this one deserves one, just keep the actors in roll until they meet again. What a confrontation that would be.

The movie in general doesn't bottom feed with the worst movies ever made, but if they ever give an anti-Oscar for the worst dialogue ever written, this film gets my Lifetime Achievement Award.

Here's some breakfast pillow-talk: "We didn't go all the way last night, but in a way you left a little bit of yourself inside me, and I think maybe I left a little bit of myself inside of you."

And I left a little bit of myself in the toilet bowl after regurgitating these lines. And those weren't even especially bad ones. The best part is that all the characters talk like this, and almost every line is delivered with this mock-poetic gravitas.

In a perverse way, this film is worth watching if you are a true lover of bad films, because it seems like every line was written by the contestants in that Bulwer-Lytton "Dark and Stormy Night" contest.