Weapons

it may be a worth a rental, at least, to those with sufficiently low expectations.....even though the action is mundane, the scene is dreamlike, almost hypnotic.....he obviously has talent and lots of potential.....The first three minutes of "Weapons" are easily the most memorable part of the movie.....This story may have been better served by an entire cast of unknowns..... ... Full Review

The acting is not bad per-say, Paul Dano is interesting on the screen visually....if the characters and story were somewhat hopeless.....The soundtrack does fit rather well, with a gritty low bass rap tune fueling many of the scenes.....Nick Cannon does well with his part as do many of the supporting actors I did not actually name..... ... Full Review

The acting is not bad per-say, Paul Dano is interesting on the screen visually....if the characters and story were somewhat hopeless.....The soundtrack does fit rather well, with a gritty low bass rap tune fueling many of the scenes.....Nick Cannon does well with his part as do many of the supporting actors I did not actually name..... ... Full Review

it does show Lough may be aware of his film's central problem, which is that nothing whatever in the world he creates feels lived.....Writer/director Adam Bhala Lough's rancid little teenage melodrama Weapons wants to shock.... ... Full Review

For one thing Lough did the old watch events from different points of view thing, but all that did was make me feel like I had to sit through a bad film three times instead of just one. I really did want to give this a chance and for about the first 15 or 20 minutes although I didnt think it was great, I thought it was ok and moving in an interesting direction. ... Full Review

Hip-hop has its own Don't Look Back now, and it comes from an unlikely source: filmmaker Adam Bhala Lough, whose Weapons , a reprehensible gangsta rip-off of Gaspar Noé's Irréversible , was a blight on Sundance 2007 that some (me... ... Full Article

Diana Eliazov Before I left for the Sundance Film Festival, I got a press release, one of hundreds, informing me of a celebrity poker tournament to be held on Sunday, January 21. ... Full Article

PARK CITY, Utah - Dressed in salt-stained boots, a big puffy jacket and a gold chain with links thick enough to tow a car, a brand-new Nick Cannon shuffles into the room. ... Full Article

Weapons ,'' the first competition film I've seen, opens with the protagonist, played by Nick Cannon, getting half his head blown off. It's another one of those films that plays the action backwards for no particularly good season, and pulls... ... Full Article

The older I get, the more scared of teenagers I become. Those little amoral monsters! Weapons , a 2007 Sundance pick that came and went without a trace, does nothing to ease my mind. ... Full Article

SCREENED AT THE 2007 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL: The opening shot of "Weapons" is of a young man enjoying a hamburger at a fast-food joint, facing the camera, clearly having a pleasant day. ... Full Article