Boring

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I've had to have seen this film at least 10 times. What a gripping portrayal of life in Hell's Kitchen. Milla was at her very best. The film was provocative and at the same time quirky, which is my absolute favorite combination for anything.Some parts were extremely disturbing to watch, but for some reason I could not turn away. The film was gritty, dirty, sexy, disturbing, grimy, dark, witty, and at the same time it was transforming. I would recommend this film to anyone that wants to go on a real journey and know what it's like to live in NY city Hell's Kitchen around that time period.

I've been a fan of Milla Jovovich since "Fifth Element" and have always enjoyed watching her take risks with her roles -- from rockin' a runway of cheap and hilarious one liners in "Zoolander" to kicking ass in the "Resident Evil" flicks. Her turn in ".45" as Kat, a big city bad girl who uses sex as a weapon to exact revenge on her abusive BF, Big Al, is one of her most riveting performances. Writer-director Gary Lennon's gritty urban drama and the straight-from-the-streets realism of the dialog provide Jovovich a good platform to showcase her amazing talent as a leading lady -- and in this case that "lady" is a gun-toting, scene-stealing heroine that makes "Resident Evil"'s Alice seem like a wallflower in comparison. A number of explosive scenes seamlessly and brilliantly meld the emotional intensity of Kat and Al's turbulent relationship with the physical brutality that encompasses their baffling obsessive attraction to one another. Lennon's deft direction expertly balances the story's tough and tender moments with dark humor and some light laughs while letting the action steadily build through plot twists and a series of killer scenes that let Jovovich's sinister master plan -- and her manipulative personality -- unfold before the drama climaxes in a reveal that stands to destroy everything and everyone around her." ".45" is proof that Jovovich doesn't need CGI and otherworldly monsters to sell a good story or prove her worth as a multidimensional character actress.

Kat (Milla Jovovich) and Big Al (Angus Macfayden) are two small time crooks and dealers living the love in Brooklyn. With the animal attraction between them the sex is good. But Al isn't a decent guy - picking up chicks left and right, even school girls giving him some head, cursing a lot, gulping litres of alcohol and with a very short fuse. Worst of all he has a tendency to beat up on Kat. Bisexual Vic (Sarah Strange) and small time auto thief Reilly (Stephen Dorff) are both in love with Kat and go a long way to declare this love, including promising to kill off Big Al. But their bark is much worse than their bite... .45 has one essential flaw that prevents this movie from achieving anything - a total lack of focus. Even though most actors (with Macfayden especially apt for the part and Mila Jovovich being hit and miss with a bad accent opposite several tremendous scenes) do a bang up job throughout the movie they are unable to push through the lack of directorial vision. This jumbled mess of a movie, which has no idea whether it intends to be "Monster", "Barfly" or "Cruel Intentions", decides to mix them all together to mold out a dud.The movie has some memorable stuff with the scene, where Al beats up Kat especially engrossing, even if frightening. Up until this point I really had my hopes high for this movie, but then it went sorely downhill... Instead of focusing on the psychological aspects of the situation the movie took a weird and laughable turn into a revenge flick. The less said the better...Not entirely a waste of time, but this .45 is 3/4 full of blanks.

Loved this movie. The thing that elevates this film out of your typical small crime genre pieces are the originality of the characters and the directions they push the story. Don't get me wrong, you get your barfights, your shower scenes, and your double-crossings -- they just don't happen in the fashion you think they will. All these characters have issues that are at once hilarious (with great talking heads quick-pop scenes that share snippets of their past), realistic and identifiable (at her core Milla Jovovich plays a woman who knows she deserves a better life), yet unpredictable (these characters have Issues!) I swear there are times where two characters are laying in bed and you don't know if they are going to have sex or shoot each other. As their stories collide, you can't help but fall in love with Milla's character as she learns what is broken in her life and takes the necessary steps to fix it.If there is one weakness, it is Angus McFadden, who over-acts his performance in trying to bring to life a character that is a bigot but still at times loving. The character was already inherently intriguing but McFadden chews up the scenery. Milla is amazing, Dorff gives a gem of a performance, and writer/director Lennon coaxes some great character fireworks out of otherwise quiet and simple scenes. Great stuff.