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The Precious Cargo





















































a5c7b9f00b A crime boss tries to make off with loot that belongs to another thief. After a botched heist, Eddie (Bruce Willis), a murderous crime boss, hunts down the seductive thief Karen (Claire Forlani) who failed him. In order to win back Eddie&#39;s trust, Karen recruits her ex-lover and premier thief Jack (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) to steal a cargo of rare precious gems. But when the job goes down, allegiances are betrayed and lines are crossed as Jack, Karen, and Eddie face off in a fateful showdown. Lionsgate Premiere will release the action thriller in theaters and on demand on April 22, 2016. This is a movie that suffers from a bad script, acting, directing ... just a bad movie overall.A movie so bad it makes bad look movies look good.<br/><br/>There is absolutely no acting from anyone of the actors. The Story line is lame and the acting even lamer. Each actor looked like they had to have their teeth pulled to utter their lines. Claire Forlaine looks old enough to be the lead actors Mother. I have no idea what Bruce Wills was doing in the movie and Jenna B Kelly cant act to save herself. The rest of the cast was there in the movie to make sure a bad movie stayed bad.<br/><br/>The boat chase scene is the only scene that is barely watchable. Jenna B Kelly except for looking good cant do anything else. I have seen novices act better.<br/><br/>Seriously save your self the trouble and skip this movie. Thief Karen, attempts to pull off a multi-million dollar heist that crime boss Eddie has been planning for a while. <br/><br/>When it goes awry, he promises to kill her unless she makes good for the full amount of the heist. With nowhere left to turn, she shows up on the doorstep of Jack, an ex-lover and fellow criminal, with Eddie&#39;s goons in hot pursuit. <br/><br/>After escaping via speedboat, Karen asks Jack to help her make good with Eddie by pulling off the robbery of an armoured car containing $30 million in diamonds, another job originally conceived by Eddie. <br/><br/>Jack&#39;s crew, especially profane sharpshooter Logan, are suspicious of Karen and her possible motives, but he himself is moving ahead, safe in the knowledge that there is no way that she might try to pull another scam and leave him holding the bag and facing Eddie&#39;s wrath........<br/><br/>Let&#39;s get Willis out of the way first. He is the main reason I, and many would see this film. Because if he wasn&#39;t in it, I&#39;d doubt I would have given this film a second look. If you&#39;ve seen Willis in these straight to DVD movies like The Prince, Vice, and Extraction, you know he does little else but stand there, say his lines half heartedly, and look thoroughly depressed throughout his screen time.<br/><br/>I don&#39;t know why he looks so fed up, he more or less gets top billing, obviously gets a big fat pay check, and has the majority of the one sheet space.<br/><br/>He&#39;s becoming a joke now, and ruins his scenes because he looks so disinterested.<br/><br/>But other than that, it&#39;s a pretty fun caper with silly humour, over the top characters, and a hilarious turn from Saved By The Bells Zach, trying his hand at being an action star (remember when Guttenberg did it with Airborne? It&#39;s much like this). <br/><br/>He&#39;s not as terrible as you&#39;d expect, but I kept expecting Mr Belding to come up to him and give him detention for shooting his gun so many times. And it&#39;s obvious he&#39;s trying to channel Paul Walker.<br/><br/>Talking of channelling, Clare Forlani is awful in her role. She may as well have worn and Angelina Jolie mask, because she is just melding her characters from Wanted and Mr &amp; Mrs Smith, and she ruins the flow of the film.<br/><br/>Her and Zach are supposed to have some sort of chemistry induced banter, that should add humour to the film, but the scene where she is eating chocolate cake whilst the house is being surrounded by gun men, you want to throw her out if the window rather than root for her.<br/><br/>It does have a predictable plot, but it&#39;s harmless stuff, doesn&#39;t last very long, and it has the audacity to quote one of the most immortal lines from &#39;Casablanca&#39;, which just showed how cocky the makers are.<br/><br/>Oh, and it&#39;s has an outtake reel during the end credits........without Willis. A rip-off and a rerun.

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