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VampAurora
20-08-2012, 11:03 PM
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Storyline:
Idealistic lawyers Mike Weiss and Paul Danziger are partners. Mike is a drug-addict and and Paul is a family man with a pregnant wife. When nurse Vicky Rogers seeks them out, they learn that she has contracted AIDS a couple of years ago when she was accidentally pinpricked with a contaminated needle by a violent patient. Vicky shows a retractable safety needle invented by engineer Jeffrey Matthew Dancort, who owns the Safety Point Company, but is unable to sell his product to any hospital from the United Medical group, apart from San Antonio Memorial. Danziger and Weiss accept the case and go to court against United Medical, defended by powerful lawyer Nathaniel Price. Soon, they see all the doors closed in their fight against the powerful mafia of the medical supply system.

Additional Information:

Directed by: Adam Kassen, Mark Kassen
Produced by:Adam Kassen,Mark Kassen, Jordan Foley
Written by: Chris Lopata
Story by: Ela Thier, Paul Danziger

Starring: Chris Evans, Mark Kassen, Vinessa Shaw, Brett Cullen, Michael Biehn, Marshall Bell
Music by: Ryan Ross Smith
Cinematography: Helge Gerull
Editing by: Chip Smith

Release date: April 21, 2011 (Tribeca)
Running time: 99 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Box office: $68,945

Critiques:

"If the movie ends too abruptly, it still gives plenty of screen time to its nicely screwed-up central character. And it's still a solid, assured feature debut from the latest brothers to watch." Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle

"The picture benefits from its performances, notably Evans' roguish appeal as a guy simultaneously driven and destructive." Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times

"The film is chock-a-block with extraordinary performances and no one will fault the filmmaking either. This is a well-made movie, make no mistake. It just suffers from a dysfunctional hero." Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter

"While the Kassen brothers do an impressive job for newcomers -- the film looks great and performances are uniformly solid -- there's some overly blunt dialogue and dead-end subplots that would have been pruned by more experienced filmmakers."Lou Lumenick, New York Post

VampAurora
20-08-2012, 11:03 PM
VampAurora's Critique:

A very very interesting movie, not only because of the story that is based on a true one, but as well as because it is extremely well-acted, especially by Chris Evans who is portraying Mike Weiss pretty good. A movie that you should see, not only if you are a movie fan but also if you like those "conspiracy theories". The only thing I didn't like it was that it had a sudden end, I would want it to last a bit more or so. I totally suggest this to you, great one.

Rating: 9/10