Hard Luck (Video 2006)

Hard Luck: Directed by Mario Van Peebles. With Wesley Snipes, Jackie Quinones, Cybill Shepherd, James Hiroyuki Liao. Ex drug dealer Lucky goes straight after prison. He’s a street vendor in NYC. An old friend invites him to a strip club but uses him as muscle in a drug deal. When cops come, he leaves with the money and stripper.

“This is a weird movie. It starts of as a gangster movie with drugs, naked girls and suits that you get arrested for just by wearing them.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe movie is split up into two different movies, the first a gangster/love/action/pulp-fiction-story and the second part a horror/psycho/thriller type of story. It sounds good on paper, and the director and editor are both doing their best to keep the two stories together. To bad itu0026#39;s not working, the stories are to different and it really feels like if someone took two movies and created a mix-tape from them.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe action is average and Wesley Snipes is doing his thing, but not more then you could expect from a B-type actor. Some of the other cast members are doing a real good job and this only makes Snipes look more like a poster name then a real actor in this case. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe biggest problem I had with this movie is that the psycho/killer part appealed more to me then the main gangesterstory. Every time the story shifted to the Thriller part I woke up from the u0026quot;almost-sleeping-stateu0026quot; the gangster part put me in.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTo sum it all up: OK movie the fact that itu0026#39;s very different from Wesley Snipesu0026#39; other work, and that the writing is above average makes it interesting to watch.”