Pros and Ex-Cons

This movie is confusing. The plot is confused, the director is confused, I was confused, and I am betting you will be confused. Don't get me wrong, the acting is better than average, although not by much. The story line is very predictable, in a confused sort of way. It is just that you are conscious all through the movie of the nagging question, "What in the world is going on?"It seems that everyone is a killer. The hired professionals, the not-so professionals, crime boss, the lazy kids who want to do nothing the rest of their lives - all are or end up being killers. Or else they end up dead. And pretty much everyone ends up dead.But there is a story line in there somewhere. Actually, I think there are four story lines in there somewhere, and that might be part of the problem.There is the one about the three "partners" who create a software program to steal millions from a bank. There is the one about the crime boss trying to make sure people either pay up or die, and he uses just about anyone to do that. There is the one about the professional hit team who is trying to take over the crime boss as the ones in control. There is the one about the twenty-something children who spend all their time inventing ways to stay out of work and on welfare. And there is the one about the undercover cops trying to run a sting operation on someone, although you never really know who is being stung.Throughout the movie we jump from one story line to another so easily that we soon realize they are all beginning to overlap and affect each other. The overlap is accomplished by the innovative means of having the killers so confused about who to kill that they end up killing a pile of "innocent" people, all of them players in one of the other story lines. By the end of the movie you realize that they have all intertwined in such a way that they are all one and the same story line.But the movie really isn't all that bad. There were only three times when I was tempted to play solitaire or something, perhaps anything, else.But it was confusing...

I very much appreciate 16:9 & 5.1; therefore I might just watch because of those parameters. I did like that I found action and violence. The shooting was fantastic. The pursuit scenes were very exciting. There were so many strings that it could be confusing at times. In conclusion I was very glad I watched this movie.

Pros & Excons is the only, I repeat, the only movie I have ever stopped after 20 minutes, and thrown away. This movie has the camera work, lighting, and dialogue of a b-rate skin flick. The conversations are horrible and unbelievable, not because they are outrageous, but because they are too simple and not plausable. Many scene's look as though the director was attempting a Guy Ritchie British Gangster movie and FAILED miserably. Many of the actors look, and act, like they belong in the 5th or 6th spin off of American Pie. If you enjoy witty dialogue, a real plot, characters with more depth than the people from Jersey Shore, and/or anything interesting, AVOID THIS MOVIE. If however, you enjoy obese, non-muscular people intimidating good looking middle aged fit guys during a card game bet, or junior high level humor, then this movie is for you.

1 star: couldn't watch more than 15 minutes. Unwatchable!2 star: jumped my way to the end for the ending. Unwatchable, but interested in how this turd ended.3 star: watched it all, but not happy about it. Nothing better to do.4 star: I watched it, liked it well enough. Would never watch it again.5 star: Great moving picture show! I'll watch it again, and maybe again in a few years.

Older Aussie film, but funny.

AAA

NO story

good deal and fast shipping.

Value watch for the price

very similar to lock,stock but more enjoyable.at least they don`t have to use American accents,i like to hear actors own accents regardless of their character parts.Sam Worthington plays it straight faced but at the end the extra bits show the laughs they all had.It`s all about a gang boss losing his grip and his hitmen getting it wrong every time

Aweful movie, zero stars, amateur level. It's a shame, because some actors are very good. The only storyline worth watching is the Sam Worthington - Steve Bastoni tandem.