To me, this movie is perfection.

A lot of fun.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

first off, the sound track on this movie was horrible. the writing was also horrible. to get two great actors such as Slater and Kilmer together and to let the writing kill the film is horrible. the good thing about this movie was the supporting cast. these young stars have all shown skill in other movies, and do a decent job in this. as usual, Hannah is the blond bombshell that gets men to do whatever she wants. It would be nice to see her actually act sometime. Slater pulls the job off in portraying a father that does what he can to take care of his family. The script though was just so unreasonable. Because of the interaction between the supporting cast,and between father and daughter, this movie is OK, it is a 5 out of 10. But as always, the writers should have worked harder. Only nice touch about it was that there were no fancy cars owned by the thieves except for the gangsters. Kilmer does a good job as a crooked cop, I could feel that in him. Decent movie if you want a little bit of action, a little bit of suspense and a lot of horrible writing!

I think the one line summary says it all. If you know the movie Hard Rain (also with Christian Slater) you may notice some similarities. The only difference here is that Slater is one of the "bad guys" (he's not really bad at all) now and there is no single drop of rain. Everything else is pretty the same. Slater who plays the smart guy who has to get out of many tricky situations. But the way he does it is not very thrilling or cutting-edge. While I really like Hard Rain, this movie is just pathetic. The characters seem really stereo type and not very interesting at all. Same thing with the action scenes and the story. At the end this movie is something what you've seen a thousand times before in other Hollywood action movies. Or in one word, it's just boring.

of course this is the most horrible movie ever seen in my life. watching it was so painful........... so don't watch it even if you get it for free.

HARD CASH!it was delightful and very entertaining! Christian slater plays a con who gets out of jail and needs some fast money! when his daughter is kidnapped he must do all kinds of stuff to get her back! this is a great movie and you should go see it! RENT IT TODAY