Gangster Exchange (2010)

Gangster Exchange: Directed by Dean Bajramovic. With Christopher Russell, Nobuya Shimamoto, Aaron Poole, Sarain Boylan. A Tokyo cyber-punk Yakuza and a Bosnian mob enforcer team up to smuggle a toilet made of pure heroin to New York City. It’s worth millions – if they can find somebody who can decipher the Japanese chemistry formula.

“Gangster Exchange definitely needs to be recategorised because, being listed as just an action movie (on IMDb), thatu0026#39;s what potential viewers expect and, whilst it IS an action movie, it isnu0026#39;t the kind that action fans would have expected. That is why it needs to be also categorised as a comedy and crime movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMaybe Iu0026#39;m a bit slow but, when I started watching Gangster Exchange (expecting, as I say, a hard-hitting action flick), it concerned me a little that I kept falling into spells of laughter at regular intervals and thinking to myself, u0026quot;Why the heck am I laughing at what is supposed to be a tough gangster film?u0026quot; Now, had I seen that it was supposed to be funny, I would have gone into it with a totally different mind-set – and therein lies a major shortcoming.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNot that being a comedy (as well as an action, gangster flick) made Gangster Exchange anywhere near being a better movie. Donu0026#39;t get me wrong. But it would have had me in a different frame of mind to watch it. As it is, this is not a great movie by anyoneu0026#39;s reckoning. I had never heard of any of the actors and the budget was quite obviously low. Actually, the comedy aspect was probably better served than the action!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSo, if you find yourself in the DVD shop and canu0026#39;t see anything you havenu0026#39;t already seen to hire and gangster Exchange jumps off the shelf at you (because you are in the Action section as that is what you like) AND you are bored to death and wondering how to fill a cold, wet afternoon, it may be worth a dollar to rent. But if it isnu0026#39;t cold and wet, go for a walk in the park. Your time would have been better spent!”