You know how shoot-out scenes in movies usually last a minute, a couple of minutes, seven minutes, fifteen minutes, maybe even thirty minutes tops? Well for this movie, the shoot-out scene last for pretty much one whole hour! Keep in mind that this is already a ninety minutes movie, and that includes the credits, plus the John Denver songs that plays in the background on occasion. How does this movie maintain this premise? In a very flimsy way. First they put our gun-toting characters into the one single setting that is inside a warehouse; kinda like a TV show "bottle episode." Secondly, they give them multiple stupidly convenient reasons on why they couldn't just straight up kill somebody, to the point where I was thinking they apparently don't really want to kill somebody. Thirdly, they just make it a really long "Mexican stand-off."
I suppose this very extended shoot-out sequence is part of the charm and appeal of seeing this movie, and I admit that I did find entertainment in it. The motley ensemble of characters bickered with each other a lot, constantly made jokes and taunts, plus a lot of complaints and confusion on what's happening. At one point, a character actually yells out "I forgot whose side I'm on!" It's also very amusing to see everybody forced to just crawl or hobble around the warehouse the majority of the time from their wounds. The chaos and irreverence is what people will likely find enjoyable about this movie, although it immediately gets to the point when it demands you to suspend your disbelief just to have fun with what's going on.
In all honesty, I think it's a little ridiculous that this guilty pleasure of a movie exists, and comes off like a throwaway film of no importance. In fact, I think the movie actually does know it's a little ridiculous that it exists, and intends to be a throwaway guilty pleasure film of no importance. So I guess that makes it okay then, because it knows what it is?
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