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Message: <blockquote data-quote="payn" data-source="post: 9776148" data-attributes="member: 90374">So, Prime been trying to bust out straight to stream movies and they remind me of the straight to VHS B action flicks back in the 80's-90's. Stuff you watch once and quickly forget.This weekend I saw Dirty Work with Marky Mark. It appears this is another adaption of the Parker/Porter character from The Hunter novels. An "honest" crook from the gutters of NYC pulling capers for a modest payday. The film is playful and does a good job with its cast as they play off one another. A strength of director Shane Black (Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang) is snappy dialogue and crime noir stories unfolding in unexpected ways. Otherwise, lots of over the top CGI effects and Marvel like scenes where ordinary crooks are pulling off super human feats. A strange element to add to an otherwise regular heist caper story. Marky Mark play the main character Parker who is always cool under pressure and one step ahead of the other one step ahead crooks. Overall, it was a fun movie al beit with some strange choices. It would seem Marky Mark is incapable of taking roles in which he can truly be a schlep who gets lucky and instead must be the suave smart cool guy at all times. Which is in a direct contrast to the down to Earth and excellent Mel Gibson lead adaption of The Hunter back in '99. Everything is super sized in the Play Dirty version which ends up pushing out a lot of the charm and cleverness of the early adaption for spectacle and cheap laughs. For example, for going a slow and enduring entrance of 70 style film like Payback, Play Dirty has a bond like opening wich isn't revisited for the rest of the film. If I had to pick the fault of PD its clearly an inconsistent style and execution. This was on my mind this morning and didnt know where else to put this review of a quickly stream movie darling of the week.</blockquote>

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