Pawn Shop Chronicles
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings
- Starring: Brendan Fraser, Elijah Wood, Lukas Haas, Matt Dillon, Norman Reedus, Paul Walker, Thomas Jane, Vincent D'Onofrio
- Summary: A missing wedding ring leads to a wild-goose chase involving meth addicts, skinheads and an Elvis impersonator.
- Director: Wayne Kramer
- Genre(s): Action, Drama, Comedy, Crime
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Positive: 1 out of 9
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Mixed: 1 out of 9
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Negative: 7 out of 9
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63Wayne Kramer thankfully refuses to cloak his excessiveness in hedge-betting self-consciousness and the result is a gratifyingly disreputable B-movie blow out.
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40Kramer, 10 years removed from his lone critical success, "The Cooler," and writer Adam Minarovich aren't exactly aping Tarantino, if only because they don't have the talent or inclination to aim that high.
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38It’s coherent enough, but entirely too long and unpleasant when it could have been one brutishly edgy hoot after another.
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30Director Wayne Kramer (Running Scared, Crossing Over) makes plain his cartoon-comedy intentions early and often via comic-book-panel-style title cards. The presiding atmosphere of over-the-top zaniness, however, is of a broad, banal sort involving little people, rampant nudity, and quasi-religious nonsense.
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30Despite its noteworthy cast who presumably had some time to fill between better gigs, this is the sort of instantly disposable B-movie effort that Quentin Tarantino would have chucked in the wastebasket after a first draft.
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20The film doesn’t feel like a fresh riff on familiar tropes so much as a bad cover of Pulp Fiction.
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16It’s all very first draft, with a layer of supernatural permeating the events that suggests added attempts to connect three wildly disparate storylines.
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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Jul 20, 20138This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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