DVD Review - The Way of the Gun

Sometimes when you are bored you will stray from the top rentals and find a movie you've never heard of.

Of course, more often than not, the movies found in the middle aisles are old or lame or both.

But sometimes you come across one you've never heard of but are impressed by the cast so you figure "what the heck, how bad can it be?"

That was the case recently when I found this DVD - The Way of the Gun.

What caught my eye was the cast - relatively big names in a move I'd never heard of before, or at least don't remember hearing about.

In this movie, Phillippe and Del Toro are a couple of guys who prefer the shadier side of life.  The movie starts with them starting a fight and Del Toro hitting a loud mouthed woman a few times in the face!

These guys kinda drift through life until the find out that there's a woman who is pregnant and worth a million dollars to the father.

So they arrange to kidnap her, ending up in a gun battle with her security before managing to grab her.

The story follows them as they head for Mexico to hide out and arrange for the safe return on the girl upon payment of a large sum of money.

They soon realize, however, that the father of the unborn baby is actually a well known mobster

The movie ends with the 2 in a big gun battle with the mobsters men. 

They almost get away with it too, but are stopped at the end with gunshot wounds to the legs and hands, effectively hobbling them until the police arrive.

The reason I liked this movie is because there seem to be a lot of subtle things going on that make you wonder if things will work out for these guys, or even if one might end up stabbing the other in the back.

In the end you hope they do make it and you start to cheer for them.  You find that they aren't necessarily as bad as they seem.

Would I recommend you run out and buy this film?  Not unless you are a huge fan of one of the actors and have to have every movie they've ever done, but I would recommend getting out and renting it. 

I give this movie a 7 out of 10.