The budget of this movie was $CAD8,000,000. Astonishingly, $2 million of them, and in a record-breaking move, were spent on marketing. Let alone that it had, at its time, the widest release of a Canadian movie in history. The problem though is that the total gross of it was $460,978, namely less than the quarter of its budget's quarter!
No doubt it's a smart movie. I enjoyed it, with its lovely plot and cool dialogue. The director made such a nice time. So what was the problem, or according to the aforementioned info, the BIG problem?!
(Kristin Booth) was a very very talented actress (I usually say "talented" only), (David Suchet) did good work despite that he's not my cup of tea, and (Joris Jarsky) was near to flawless, BUT (Ryan Reynolds) wasn't as good as any of them. And sorrowfully, all of them isn't that charismatic to be a movie's leads. Add to that, the tragedy of not being that famous and lustrous internationally as well.
It lacked the surprising effect at the end, since its twist was predictable, but maybe I saw it like that because I'm accustomed to watching movies all along. Most importantly, it lacked the Hollywood wrapping; whereas the cinematography got the job done without the gloss (of Ocean's Eleven, for instance), the sets aren't that expensive, the music isn't catchy enough, and the poster is really poor. But in fact there were other, more big and real effective, missing things.
It suffered from the absence of the octopus-like distribution all over the planet, and the huge noisy publicity where you run into the "making of" everyday on all the channels, watch the teaser, then the trailer, then the other trailer, in every cinema or internet site, with huge posters in your city's main streets maybe weeks before the release; you know, the things that make Hollywood so Hollywood. So, in general, the movie ended up looking like any independent American movie, and was treated as one too.
In 2003, there were some noticeable heist movies. Just recall: (Matchstick Men), (The Italian Job), and (Confidence). I think (Foolproof) is no less, if not better. The thing is it missed the stars, the guaranteed presence in the movies, and the propaganda. So, in brief, the only problem of this movie from Hollywood North is that it wasn't Hollywood.. Enough!
No doubt it's a smart movie. I enjoyed it, with its lovely plot and cool dialogue. The director made such a nice time. So what was the problem, or according to the aforementioned info, the BIG problem?!
(Kristin Booth) was a very very talented actress (I usually say "talented" only), (David Suchet) did good work despite that he's not my cup of tea, and (Joris Jarsky) was near to flawless, BUT (Ryan Reynolds) wasn't as good as any of them. And sorrowfully, all of them isn't that charismatic to be a movie's leads. Add to that, the tragedy of not being that famous and lustrous internationally as well.
It lacked the surprising effect at the end, since its twist was predictable, but maybe I saw it like that because I'm accustomed to watching movies all along. Most importantly, it lacked the Hollywood wrapping; whereas the cinematography got the job done without the gloss (of Ocean's Eleven, for instance), the sets aren't that expensive, the music isn't catchy enough, and the poster is really poor. But in fact there were other, more big and real effective, missing things.
It suffered from the absence of the octopus-like distribution all over the planet, and the huge noisy publicity where you run into the "making of" everyday on all the channels, watch the teaser, then the trailer, then the other trailer, in every cinema or internet site, with huge posters in your city's main streets maybe weeks before the release; you know, the things that make Hollywood so Hollywood. So, in general, the movie ended up looking like any independent American movie, and was treated as one too.
In 2003, there were some noticeable heist movies. Just recall: (Matchstick Men), (The Italian Job), and (Confidence). I think (Foolproof) is no less, if not better. The thing is it missed the stars, the guaranteed presence in the movies, and the propaganda. So, in brief, the only problem of this movie from Hollywood North is that it wasn't Hollywood.. Enough!