Bent

Two big reasons for seeing this movie: Sofia Vergara.

She's a beautiful gummint agent, but who cares? Just look into her eyes and fall into the abyss.

Oh, and there's Karl Urban. He still has to keep his face covered to hide his complicit role in a certain space opera. But you know something? I have greatly enjoyed each and every role he's ever done.

The film showed up on late-night and I managed to catch the pre-title scene from where they approach the boat, and I had no idea who was in it. I see that the cast includes Al Pacino--- oops, rather Andy Garcia. Yeah, he was channelling Michael from GF3. "THEY KEEP DRAWING ME BACK IN!"

Every time that this genre shows up on my screen, I think "they're making all these cop flicks, how come I never hear anything about them." But, I enjoyed most of whatever humour there was, and it's got a good beat and it's easy to dance to.

Like other reviews, it's not the greatest movie but not bad either

This movie is reminiscent of an old detective story from the 1970s. Like a cop going around trying to solve a crime while being on leave for doing something bad on the job, like Dirty Harry. It includes the over-the-top tough guy dialogue as well.

The plot is ok, but man the dialogue and the weird actors/background make it seem really amateurish. And then you realize why. Yeah, this is not the US, it's Italy. After seeing a sign on a building that says "PortMobility", I Googled it and found it in Rome. Not the US.

Hence, a Spaghetti detective story, made in italy!

The clues were all the weird accents. A TV reporter with an Italian accent, the cop with a weird accent. The European cars in the background. And no discernible landmark from the US. Not to mention the weird Police uniforms, they looked like some Eastern European uniforms, not American cop uniforms. While driving Euro cop cars.

It was a weird movie overall. Which was kind of surprising since it had a couple well known actors.

If you're bored and can stream it for free, do it just to see how many hints you can notice that it's Italy.

So, where, for the love of all that is holy, is this movie supposed to be taking place? Apparently it is supposed to be somewhere in the U.S., because otherwise what the hell are all these Americans doing in the movie. Originally Karl Urban's Jeep appears to have Louisiana Plates on it, but in every scene with multiple back ground cars, there are lots of cars that aren't even sold in the U.S.

I also need to point out that NO police force in the U.S. has ever used BMW E36 sedans as cop cars, or Land Rover Discoverys, at least that I can find. And those police badges on the sleeves of their uniforms could not be more generic. Maybe this movie suffered from High Definition clarity.

Also, the establishing shots for the locations are bizarre and simply wrong, and the cops all sound like they're from New York.

It's just so confusing. As if the producer and director had never set foot in the U.S. and was just guessing at what it would look like.

I've seen worse movies, but this one had the potential to be much better, regardless of the rehashed plot. At least I don't feel the need to find these people and ask them for my time back.

I quite liked this movie, just above average. I don't know why so many people had reviewed this film and say that it is a rehash, been done so many times before. Er hello, what film has'nt been done many times before. Even classics like the Big Sleep were done before. Superman....he can fly and can save the world..rehash. Detective or detectives find out who the bad guy is. NCSI. CSI...Sherlock Holmes. Just because the film did not have a shoot out and car chase every five seconds, does not mean it was a bad film. Or was it because people had to concentrate on the dialogue. As I said its an ok film.