disgusting, overrated, pointless

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

When Andrew Sterling, a successful writer buys a vacation home on a resort in New England, locals mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver realises his mistake and to avoid the bad publicity offers a thief in his jail, Amos Odell a deal. Amos is to pretend to take Andrew prisoner and hold him for ransom but let him go and escape. The pair realise that the Chief's problems are all gone if the two of them both die in a gun battle......So the whole film is supposed to be a topical satire on how suburbanites are supposed to typecast people of different ethnicities. Does it work? No. Did I find it offensive? Yes.The writer of this poison, has basically depicted everyone who live on the island apart from Andrew, as moronic Neanderthals from the dark ages, who are fascinated with status and fame.Cage just plays an idiot, plain and simple, and Jackson is basically a calmer version of Zeus from Die Hard 3, who feels oppressed, and this is supposed to be funny?Its not funny, I couldn't think of anybody who wouldn't be offended by this, because the subject matter is dealt with like a soiled nappy.Its no wonder it never got a theatrical release here in the UK.Its a big thing to say this, but its Cages most awful film, and I've seen Deadfall and Stolen..

This film is possibly one of the funniest films ever. A seriously great flick which will make you laugh more than ones. Great acting, writing and directing and the plot is so brilliant that you want believe it. Samuel L. Jackson (one of the best actors alive plays Andrew Sterling a extremely rich and successful African American which has just bought a summer house on a "all white" island. The previous owners of the summer house has not told anybody that it was for sail and when two of the neighbors see him inside they naturally assume he is a criminal. He's nice car outside also make them believe he's holding the previous owners hostage and they call the police. The police assumes the same and over a little misunderstanding they start firing at him. When the realize how wrong they where the police chief (which is running for Major) makes a plan to justify everything and fool everyone so they make a deal with the life criminal Amos (played by Nicolas Cage) to stage a hostage situation against letting him get out of jail. But then the pres finds out about the story and the chief has to go back on his deal, unfortunately for him they both finds out the truth.

I rented this because I'm a big fan of Jackson and Cage and thought this would be vintage work by them. Indeed it was and I did enjoy the decent acting they did. However, they didn't really have much to work with. The idea of the film was pretty interesting and it got my attention at first. However, it kept switching from half serious tenseness to stupid slapstick. Eventually, the slapstick wins out and is suck my preachy racist diatribes. Dabny Coleman was his usual self, which was OK, but the slapstick sunk him too.

Hated by some critics, ignored by the movie-viewing public, "Amos and Andrew" is a very underrated movie with a message. First of all, this film has great performances from the whole cast. Nicholas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson, Dabney Coleman, all of them were hilarious in this movie. Even the supporting cast (especially Bob Balaban) were hilarious. If you want to see Samuel L. Jackson actually act instead of just being some cop or criminal advocating senseless violence, see this movie. Second of all, the script was great; I loved all the twists and turns that the plot took. It's part of what made this movie so funny. I also enjoyed the political satire in Dabney Coleman's character. Finally, the movie contains an important message. It speaks out against racism. Even without the segregation which Martin Luther King, Jr. fought against, society is not colorblind, and that point is exhibited well in this movie.Don't believe the IMDB vote rating or the high-and-mighty movie critics. Believe me. This is an excellent piece of filmmaking.