Dig

The title of this movie should say it all. It's dirt. I run into horrible movies with great actors in them all the time but this one is so aggravating. Emile Hirsch is usually good for some entertainment but instead the produces gave him baby dialogue. He would quote baby book titles and even the characters in the books thinking he were some genius but Emile did say he only had a 4th grade education. Also, my biggest pet peeve is for someone to finally get the upper hand and he bonks the bad guy on the head then turns around and runs but he immediately gets caught. Every single time the bad guy gets up and catches them..so annoying and predictable..Bad movie, bad writing and everyone involved in this movie should be yelled at..

Seriously, two proven killers (we saw them do three) keep letting these two almost escape and then don't kill them. T Jane's character is so stupid (flagging down a vehicle they can't see) and "let's get out of here" when two armed people are 50 feet away? They made it maybe 30 yards. And still not dead. Giving the the electrical worker clues to call the cops when one of the killers is listening and has your daughter? We never find out what is in the box that needs to be excavated (except the dead brother.) Why dig at all when there is a ton of money (drugs) in the walls? Just really stupid.

Sauce

Signature scenes the rubber mallet, that about says it all. Between my eyes, over and over again, the whole time. Thinly veiled macguffins, reasons for the characters having investment, motivation, plot devices, whatever. Pretty much that way throughout; by the time the thugs are holding the heroes captive, more of the same, more rubber mallet blows to the viewer's face. Get it over with already. How many more characters do I really need to describe just how much of a lame duck this one really was. So many were the plot devices, motivations, etc, was it really that interesting, no, not really. I am finally done.

The movie is pretty tedious to be honest. It starts off kind of ok, then just goes down hill bit by bit, scene by scene. There is way way too much dialogue and I kind of feel bad for the actors because the script is pretty lame. There are a few good scenes, but overall I barely made it to the end. And by the end you just want it to end already. I keep wondering how scripts like this get good actors to sign on board, how do they not know how bad the script and film would turn out? Also, the director chose this honkey tonk soundtrack instead of a score so that also doesn't work. 3/10. Thanks for the effort but it just didn't work out.