Nice effects though.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Blistering performances.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

.45 stars Milla Jovovich as Kat, a girl who grows tired of being beaten by her boyfriend, big Al, a gun dealer and low life in general. She finally works up the courage to leave him and befriends Liz(Aisha Tyler), a counselor at a women's shelter.Another woman, Vic(Sarah Strange) also tries to help Kat and is in love with her in a romantic way.The final piece of the puzzle is Reilly(Stephen Dorff), another criminal who is a partner of big Al's and like everyone else, lusts for the sexy Kat. He tells her to get revenge on her former lover by killing him.Kat must make a big decision as to whether or not do away with Al forever or just go along her merry way. New York City is the backdrop for .45 and it works well, as usual, for a street crime drama. Milla Jovovich is convincing as the gun moll, Kat, and the story is interesting enough for a rating of 7.

The movie is great. I love it. Thanks to the deep script-writing, the world in the film is gritty and surreal. First off, .45 starts off extremely strong. Viewers should first know that the movie's clear theme is sex. Can't go ten minutes without a scene involving some form of love. While this doesn't bother me, it may bother others.Milla Jovovich excellently plays the woman Kat, a beautiful if-abused woman who is the girlfriend of arms dealer "Al." As Kat and Al's relationship gets worse over her selling weapons, the movie also decides to take a dive. Not only is it never explained how she was able to manipulate all of her friends, but she has a quick attitude change halfway through the movie. She goes from being a soft woman scared of the real word to a hard-ass b&%#$ who isn't scared of anybody. The change isn't subtle; one scene she's scared, the next she's facing down Al in a courtroom.The movie becomes quite confusing here. Not only does the movie ditch some of the strongest characters (Kat's friend and Reilly) but it also leaves a giant cliffhanger. The movie is supposedly about getting revenge on Al, but there's never really any of that.I would blame all of this on the script. It goes from great to "meh" in about 5 minutes flat, actually. Like I said, starts off strong...falters and dies at the end like an old car engine.I would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys Milla Jovovich's acting like I certainly do. Otherwise, stray away from this movie,

Kat (Milla Jovovich) and Big Al (Angus Macfayden) are two small time crooks and dealers living the love in Brooklyn. With the animal attraction between them the sex is good. But Al isn't a decent guy - picking up chicks left and right, even school girls giving him some head, cursing a lot, gulping litres of alcohol and with a very short fuse. Worst of all he has a tendency to beat up on Kat. Bisexual Vic (Sarah Strange) and small time auto thief Reilly (Stephen Dorff) are both in love with Kat and go a long way to declare this love, including promising to kill off Big Al. But their bark is much worse than their bite... .45 has one essential flaw that prevents this movie from achieving anything - a total lack of focus. Even though most actors (with Macfayden especially apt for the part and Mila Jovovich being hit and miss with a bad accent opposite several tremendous scenes) do a bang up job throughout the movie they are unable to push through the lack of directorial vision. This jumbled mess of a movie, which has no idea whether it intends to be "Monster", "Barfly" or "Cruel Intentions", decides to mix them all together to mold out a dud.The movie has some memorable stuff with the scene, where Al beats up Kat especially engrossing, even if frightening. Up until this point I really had my hopes high for this movie, but then it went sorely downhill... Instead of focusing on the psychological aspects of the situation the movie took a weird and laughable turn into a revenge flick. The less said the better...Not entirely a waste of time, but this .45 is 3/4 full of blanks.

Loved this movie. The thing that elevates this film out of your typical small crime genre pieces are the originality of the characters and the directions they push the story. Don't get me wrong, you get your barfights, your shower scenes, and your double-crossings -- they just don't happen in the fashion you think they will. All these characters have issues that are at once hilarious (with great talking heads quick-pop scenes that share snippets of their past), realistic and identifiable (at her core Milla Jovovich plays a woman who knows she deserves a better life), yet unpredictable (these characters have Issues!) I swear there are times where two characters are laying in bed and you don't know if they are going to have sex or shoot each other. As their stories collide, you can't help but fall in love with Milla's character as she learns what is broken in her life and takes the necessary steps to fix it.If there is one weakness, it is Angus McFadden, who over-acts his performance in trying to bring to life a character that is a bigot but still at times loving. The character was already inherently intriguing but McFadden chews up the scenery. Milla is amazing, Dorff gives a gem of a performance, and writer/director Lennon coaxes some great character fireworks out of otherwise quiet and simple scenes. Great stuff.