Best movie of this year hands down!

A Major Disappointment

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I'm giving this a 6.5 and I'm pretty loyal to movies with wesley snipes. This movie just lacked a great plot. Everything you learn about writing a story it seems to be forgotten in this movie. From the begging, to the plot, to the suspense, and even the ending was terrible. I expect better from mario van pebbles. Welsey still can act, and the girl wasn't a bad actor either. As a matter of fact all the actors were pretty good or at least decent. In a lot of low budget films you get some terrible actors. I can't recall any. Even the sick twisted couple all played their parts to the T.But beyond that Its petty lame. I mean judging this based on passenger 57, demolition man, white man can't jump and all the blades. And to be honest I should have gave it a 5. But like I said the other actors and actresses were great. The movie was lacking action. Yeah there were bits a pieces of action. But it wasn't put together well. And the police weren't tough enough. The movie was about a drug sting gone wrong along with some crooked cops. Thats should be an easy plot with the cast they had. But they needed more action. You can't just show scene after seen and then not explain some of these characters. I guess with the low budget they weren't able to get into detail of each character. But thats what makes you have a feeling of that character. If you keep throwing characters in with out giving the viewers a personality to attach it to then you are mudding the waters.They did a good job with the serial killers. And to be honest they did the best job with them. Sick as it was it left you in wanting to know whats going to happen. I surely didn't want to know or care what happened to lucky and his stripper girlfriend. Even the part where he catches her calling the guy who got killed in the shootout (who was dead at the time) was really set up wrong. You have to spend some time on that, do it right. And the end of the day, great characters, great acting, bad bad plot witch was all over the place. I would have excepted this in the late 80's early 90's with the one liners and the sex that took place. But not in 2006. I don't think they have the range to make a low budget movie a hit cause everybody is worried about a paycheck. Next go in detail a little more, make up a new concept. Might not be new to society but new to views. Like in drop zone. How many people could tell you about skydiving? But it seems like you watched the movie and you learned something new. If you are going to make a low budget film make it to where they viewers is like "ah, I am learning something new thats cool, is that really how that works". You have to question it cause you don't know. And it may be fake but it got you interested. Its called creativity and this movie get 3 in creativity. Once again shouldn't be hard to do with this cast.

Well, I've finally tracked down Wesley Snipes's worst film and it turns out to be this Mario Van Peebles-directed stinker that attempts to mix the small-time gangster genre with a serial killer flick. HARD LUCK is an appallingly shot, badly written B-movie that's so inept that you wonder whether Peebles went out of his way to make the worst film he could as part of a bet.The film stars Snipes and the often-naked Jackie Quinones as an ex-con and a stripper who go on the run from the Mob with a suitcase full of cash. All very ordinary you might think, but then the plot takes a turn for the bizarre with the introduction of a serial killing couple played by Cybill Shepherd and James Liao. Yes, that really is Cybill Shepherd in this movie, although what she's doing here I can only guess.HARD LUCK is shoddily made and particularly badly shot; all of the dialogue scenes and moments of exposition are acceptable, but the handling of the action is horrendous (a surprise considering Peebles's experience in the genre). The ineptness has to be seen to be believed: there's genuinely nothing good here, aside from a typically reliable Snipes, so how this got made or even released I have no idea.

Hard Luck is a truly odd film. It stars Wesley Snipes and is written and directed by Mario Van Peebles. At first glance, it's a combination of a typical Snipes action movie and the modern-day blaxploitation films that Van Peebles specialises in. Snipes portrays an ex-con desperately trying to go straight, who innocently blunders into a drug deal/police sting gone wrong, and is forced to go on the run with a Cuban stripper he's only just met (played by Jackie Quinones). Cue shoot-outs and car chases. So far, so expected.However, the movie then begins cutting away to an entirely separate 'Saw'-type storyline happening many miles away, concerning a couple of backwoods serial-killers who abduct and torture people to death, filming themselves while doing so. And in the first indication that this film is going to be out of the ordinary, one of these snuff producers is played by Cybill Shepherd - yep, Cybill Shepherd!!!Meanwhile, back in the Snipes storyline, the crime aspect is practically forgotten and it almost turns into a standard road movie, complete with a cameo from veteran character actor Luis Guzman as an extremely camp gay porn baron. Eventually the two separate plot lines converge when Snipes crosses paths with Shepherd at the movie's climax.As a result, Hard Luck is bizarre but strangely fascinating. It really is like watching two entirely different movies that have been edited together. There's even a third major plot line - with Aubrey Dollar as a teenager travelling across America with her boyfriend - that has mostly been left on the cutting room floor.The stunt casting of Shepherd works really well, and she's clearly enjoying herself in a real change-of-pace role. However, there's something slightly distasteful about the movie's treatment of female lead Quinones. Seemingly not content that she's playing a stripper (her introductory scene has her performing a pole dance, immediately followed by a naked lap dance) who wears very revealing and skimpy clothing outside work, the script keeps coming up with really lame excuses to get her character to completely disrobe several times throughout the film. In fact, so lame are the reasons for her stripping off, that the writers are clearly admitting how gratuitous it is, in a half-hearted attempt at self-referential parody. You can almost imagine them whispering in your ear as the film unfurls - "yeah, we know there's absolutely no good reason for her to get her kit off in this scene, but look, that's one shapely butt she's got." Quinones' entry on the IMDb reveals only a few minor credits, and this is her biggest role so far. It's most likely a case of a struggling unknown actress accepting an exploitative role that other, more established actresses would probably have kept clear of. Quinones is actually very good in the part, proving that she's not only extremely easy on the eye, but has got more-than-capable acting abilities as well. Hopefully we'll see more of her (no pun intended).

this is not worth a cinema ticket! if you are trying to find another video that you haven't already seen, well then, i guess it might be an almost value for money affair. there does seem to be a plot in there somewhere but since the movie does not keep you in it's grasp, you find yourself wondering if it is worth keeping the thread. slow moving with average acting from the known personas, this movie does try to cover all the basic elements of a Hollywood flick. there is skin, violence and attempts at fear, drama and mystery; all fall a little short of satisfying. unfortunately, this is not going to get one of my strongest recommendations, but if there is nothing on and the night is lonely - reach for something else unless it is the last vid in the shop.