I was disappointed by this movie by Paul Shrader, who has certainly turned in much better efforts.
Yaphet Kotto, Richard Pryor, and Harvey Keitel did a good job of representing blue collar workers. But their acting and the music were about the only things to recommend this movie.
The plot of three factory workers trying to burglarize their own corrupt union was dumb and undeveloped. It's difficult to root for the success of three guys with obviously devoted wives who: sneak out at night to snort cocaine and screw their brains out; cheat on their income taxes; and complain they have no money while evidently spending most of their money and time drinking at the local tavern. Evidently there are one or more homicides in their past, too.
But, this movie urges, let's concentrate on the important things: the union has failed to get Richard Pryor's locker fixed at work.
The oppression of their factory bosses and their union seems like a deserved punishment. Even so, we might hope for the come-uppance of the hopelessly evil union if the acting of the person playing the FBI agent investigating it were not much more horrid than the union.
Yaphet Kotto, Richard Pryor, and Harvey Keitel did a good job of representing blue collar workers. But their acting and the music were about the only things to recommend this movie.
The plot of three factory workers trying to burglarize their own corrupt union was dumb and undeveloped. It's difficult to root for the success of three guys with obviously devoted wives who: sneak out at night to snort cocaine and screw their brains out; cheat on their income taxes; and complain they have no money while evidently spending most of their money and time drinking at the local tavern. Evidently there are one or more homicides in their past, too.
But, this movie urges, let's concentrate on the important things: the union has failed to get Richard Pryor's locker fixed at work.
The oppression of their factory bosses and their union seems like a deserved punishment. Even so, we might hope for the come-uppance of the hopelessly evil union if the acting of the person playing the FBI agent investigating it were not much more horrid than the union.