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'Pasty Face'. Take a bunch of failed Scottish actors. Place them in a Las Vegas environment where they get involved in a plan to rob a casino and you have the key ingredients for a typical 'fish ot of water' comedy. Throw in a woman store robbing ex-pat and another who fleeces men at gunpoint and you have a very promising Girls with Guns flick as well. However somewhere along the line this project came very badly off the tracks and what we are left with is an exteremly mediocre comedy thriller.
Despite everything I did start to slightly warm to this film when the action started in the last third of the film and the gang set out to rob the casino. However even these scenes are botched and the comedic element is overplayed terribly. The film's final denouement is absolutely dreadful. If I had to guess the film run out of money and they had to tack on a flimsy excuse for an ending. So not too impressed. Film Rating 3/10 and Gun Moll rating 5/10.
'High Heels, Low Life'. After my experiences with 'Pasty Face' and my general disillusionment with British film at present I really wasn't expecting much from this effort either. In all truth I never got much either but compared to the other films on this page it is a minor masterpiece. The film stars Mary McCormack and Minnie Driver as two dipsy girls who get involved in a plot to rob some gangland figures of their ill gotten loot. The film seems to lack the overblown ambitions of the other films on this page and is all the better for it. In all I found this film quite amusing but there's not a lot of gun girl action until the last 20 minutes though. Film Rating 5/10 and Gun Moll rating 3/10.
'The 51st State'. It seems obligatory to get an American actor to star in any British picture these days in an attempt to gain some box office appeal in the US market. However how the producers managed to persuade Samuel L Jackson to star in this limp and lax piece of film making is a mystery to me. Somebody obviously told him that a black American wearing a kilt and running round Liverpool is intrinsically funny and whilst it may be for the first 5 minutes the joke soon wears thin. The film also stars the very talented British actors Robert Carlyle and Ricky Tomlinson and with a half decent script this film could have been a whole lot better. But as it wasn't and the only compensation, and what good compensation it is, is to see Emily Mortimer in the role of a hitwoman who returns to her native Liverpool to fulfil a contract against her ex boyfriends associates. Forget the film, just see Emily play. Film Rating 3/10 and Gun Moll rating 7/10.
