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There's no other way of putting it then Prime Cut is a stupid movie. It seems to give no thought of what's going on the screen, as it meanders pointlessly through a series of fairly standard action scenes of the era. To itemize everything about this movie would essentially require writing the script. Marvin plays a Chicago enforcer who cones out the rural Midwest to collect from the town kingpin played by Gene Hackman. The majority of the plot is abtruse, directionless and impulsive in its motivations. Hackman especially is wasted in this lousy part but even Marvin who finds his usual tough guy groove in this role deserves much better.

Tim Roth plays a hitman who's assignment brings him back to the Brooklyn neighborhood he grew up in. Where finds complications from his estranged family. Roth makes a good case in this role for an actor being able to act anything. In this case, an imposing cold blooded Russian killer. He's out of safe territory as an actor yet he pulls it off. Little Odessa is more about the relationship between the two brothers played by Roth and Edward Furlong than anything else. However, most of these scenes just lay there like flat generic gangster drama material. The few moments this film starts to come to life are with Maxmillian Schell and when he confronts his son.

It's like that b storyline in Scarface played out into a whole movie and comes up short.

A stranger comes to a quaint New England town and opens a shop that seems to have just what everyone wants. However, each item comes with a price which places the whole town in a debt with itself. There's a couple of things about this movie that can be scrutinized. One is that sure maybe it's just what they wanted but how many people are really going to commit a crime, even kill, for a knick knack from a curio shop? And how come they all turn to this random store owner as their closest confidant and you could go on. The first part of this movie involves Sydow setting up his sinister scheme of pitting everyone against each other before it all explodes into chaos. Which best describes Needful Things.