Nan Hamilton in Styx (2001)

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Three guys in movie heaven: Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, Denzel Washington.

Three guys in hell: Richard Grieco, Michael Pare, Eric Roberts.

In between, we have three guys in limbo: Peter Weller, Bryan Brown, Angus MacFadyen.

All three of the limbo guys are in this movie, which appears to have been made as a straight-to-vid. Limbo is not a good place to be, because the trend is downward to hell, not upward to heaven. A couple of years ago, Michael Madsen, Malcolm McDowell, and Dennis Hopper were in limbo, in exile from real movies. Now they seem to be permanently in hell, consistently paired with Pare and the B boys.

It seems to be almost impossible to escape from hell. Eric Roberts has turned in some pretty good performances down there in Hades, even an excellent one in La Cucaracha, but I don't think there is a road back to real movies. If there is, it's difficult to find. It's like getting back to the majors after being sent down to the rookie leagues.
MacFadyen was in real movies a very short time ago, but his presence in this cast is not a positive omen.

Given all that, I guess it is fitting that the movie is named Styx, because the River Styx is the passageway to Hell.
It's one of those films where a bunch of low-rent guys who don't trust each other try to pull off a massive caper. As is inevitable in these films, each of them is upset that the others don't show him enough "respect". They need the expertise of one guy (Weller) who has left the rackets to become an honest restaurant owner, so he joins in for the ever-clichéd "one last job". They all double-cross each other and fire off thousands of rounds and have a lot of car chases. Round up the usual plot-twists.

The fight scenes between geezers Bryan Brown and Peter Weller looked like the battle for a front seat when Matlock comes on at the old folks' home.

The end.

It is a perfect movie to be starring "limbo guys". Not bad enough to be a Grieco classic. Not good enough to be "Lock, Stock ... "

Nudity Report: Chantelle Standler is seen naked from behind while she showers. Nan Hamilton does a brief scene of full-frontal nudity.

IMDB Summary: Not enough votes, but will probably check in around 5.


Written by: Scoopy …courtesy of Scoopy.net