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Living by the Gun Favorite Movie Quote: "Fifteen million dollars is not money. It's a motive with a universal adaptor on it." Amongst the great movies that could honestly be called flops would be Way of the Gun. I can understand why; it's through a dark looking glass regarding subject matter long made sexy and redeemable by other Hollywood fare. Way of the Gun offers that one good action does not make up for a lifetime of wickedness, however, even the wicked are not 100% so. "For the record I'll call myself Mr. Parker. My associate will be Mr. Longbaugh. There is a natural order. The way things are meant to be. An order that says that the good guys always win. That you die when it's your time, or you have it coming. That the ending is always happy, if only for someone else. Now at some point it became clear to us that our path had been chosen and we had nothing to offer the world. Our options narrowing down to petty crime or minimum wage. So, we stepped off the path, and went looking for the fortune that we knew was looking for us. Once off the path you do what you can to eat and to keep moving. You don't blow your ghost of a chance with nickel and dime. No possessions, no comforts. Need is the ultimate monkey. A pint of your blood can fetch you fifty bucks. A shot of c*m, three grand. You keep your life simple and you can literally self sustain." Parker (Ryan Phillippe) and Longbaugh (Benicio Del Toro) are two small time hoods looking for a big score. Though they acknowledge that the longest distance between two points is between a kidnapper and his money, they have an opportunity staring them in the face that they decide they can't pass up. That opportuinity would be Robin (Julliette Lewis), a surrogate mother for a very wealthy rich couple. Of course, her relationship to the couple, their number one man (James Caan), her doctor (Dylan Kussman), and the men guarding her - Jeffers (Taye Diggs) and Obeck (Nicky Katt) - as well their relationships to each other makes matters more than a litte complicated as no one does precisely what you think they should. The biggest thing Way of the Gun has going for it is great dialog delivered by skilled actors and fairly realistic shootouts (for me number two behind Heat); it's also the only time (other than perhaps The Other Sister) that Lewis didn't completely disgust me). I also appreciate solid performances from relatively unknown actors, and the idea that bad people aren't all bad. The movie suffers from a bit of self-absorbtion at times, as the sound bites and moments designed for a laugh occasionally disturb the flow of the narrative, but more often than not these moments are worth it. email this review to a friend
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