Vice Movie
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It's a dirty job
Detective Walker is a deeply flawed hero fighting to redeem himself while solving, and simultaneously trying to prevent, a string of murders following a drug deal gone bad. As in other gritty, gripping urban dramas, such as The Usual Suspects, Vice takes the viewer by the throat and doesn t let go until the final plot twist reveals the truth about Walker and the hard cost of making tough choices.
| Michael Madsen | Walker |
| Daryl Hannah | Salt |
| Mykelti Williamson | Sampson |
| Mark Boone Junior | Bugsby |
| Kurupt | TJ Greene |
| John Cassini | Travalino |
| Nicholas Lea | Jenkins |
| Aaron Pearl | Chambers |
| Matthew Robert Kelly | Zelco |
| Peter LaCroix | Coburg |
| Emy Aneke | Darius |
| Betty Linde | Mom |
| Justine Warrington | Hooker |
| Martin Cummins | Agent Arnaud |
| Frank Cassini | Agent Linder |
| Raul Inglis |
4.50 out of 10 (216 votes)
Visitor Reviews
This was OK
posted on 09 Jan 2008I picked this movie up at a mickey d's red box and i wasn't expecting anything special. I figured if it was i would have heard about it. What i got was an OK cop movie with a kick ass cast. Madsen was awesome especially in the overdubbed readings. It made me wish he would have been max Payne instead of mark. Hannah managed to look about 10 years younger and she played the shy girl cop very well. But what made the movie for me was the addition of Alex Krycek( nick lea ) from the x-files. That put a huge smile on my face. So what holds this movie back? Well the writing was pretty weak and the story had more than a couple holes. I liked the idea of a drug bust that changes everyones lives through paranoia and broken trust. The thing that really brought the movie down though was the surprisingly bad acting in some scenes. Mostly scenes with Hannah and Madden. The car scene where walker and Sampson get into an argument and walker says, "do you wanna f**k with me" was possibly the worst scene of Michael Madsens career. All in all not a bad movie. You should see it just for Nick Lea and Madsen together.
Good but, Madsen in the lead is rather weak
posted on 15 Sep 2007Michael Madsen is a hard living cop that finds his crew dying after a drug bust goes wrong. Madsen does his best, but the film seems to get away from him. I don't know if its because he's not strong enough to be lead character but he comes off the worse for ware in a good but unremarkable film which requires little of him other than to talk tough and look mean which reciting meaningful narration. Actually I'm picking on the writing which is actually pretty good and I liked some of the pithy lines of dialog and philosophical narration. Actually the trouble is Madsen who just sort of stands there and broods in a leather jacket. Better is Daryl Hannah looking very good and mean with her hair dyed jet black. Good but not great, worth a look in mindless mode.
Just a response
posted on 20 Aug 2007Classic bete noire: The genre persists in many forms.Vice is not a "slow" movie, nor is it pedantic. Vice does require intense attention to each participant and the environment, as it should, for the writer and director show common people in extraordinary circumstances.Madsen and Hanna may not seem "common", but see them at the bottom of the ladder in their environment. The acting is exquisite, the sets sublime (in the sense that they disappear and yet contribute a force on the viewer), and all is wholly believable.Vice is paced to the stark reality of an undercover existence, of competing loyalties, of personal trust and values, of redemption. Best of all: It takes until the very end of this film, but there is resolution.A hard film, but well worth the effort.
Vice moves slow
posted on 05 Jul 2007I'm a little shocked that Michael Madsen was in this movie. He is one talented actor. He could have done much better than getting involved with Vice. I tried to keep from stopping the DVD player to pull Vice out. But that's what I did. The movie is sloooooooow. It moves at a crawl. Super boring action. I don't know when I officially had to turn it off before it put me to me sleep. I do recall Daryl Hannah talking to Michael Madsen in car then getting out. Daryl Hannah is way hotter with curves than she was in Wall Street. She's a timeless beauty. Even Michael and Daryl could not save this one. The plot written on the DVD sounded like it was was going to be smoking like a inferno of action. It was more like a match of boredom. The DVD was only playing 20 minutes before my GF asked me what's this about. It was taking so long for a plot to develop that it lost us. If you need help going to sleep one night rent Vice. It will do the trick.
Daryl Hannah, Drugs and Dics
posted on 25 May 2009"Vice" is a low budget cop noir movie where everyone is flawed, corrupt and/or dying.It tries to be another "LA Confidential" or even "Street Kings" but falls short due to its simple characters and sets and limited plot.Like other cop noir, this one begins with a voice-over. Michael Madsen's "Walker" stands in a church observing how no one is really alive. We're just all dead or dying. From there we jump to streetwalker sex and then a drug bust gone bad. During the take down, one of the dealers escapes in a bloody shootout - setting up the rest of the movie. Cops involved in the bust start dying and the Feds come in to investigate.So who's killing the vice cops? Is it vengeful drug dealers - or members of the unit with secrets to hide? Or maybe it's a homicide cop on the take? Soon no one trusts anyone and everyone is a suspect.We'd care more about the answers to those questions if the movie had more depth or complexity. It does not. The main character, Madsen's "Walker," is the typical blunt instrument. His main skill is dogged determination. His job is to find out who's killing his vice detectives – and why. The rest of his crew is similarly one dimensional, making it hard to care about anyone as they die.The limited sets contribute to this feeling of apathy. Walker moves in circle that soon becomes repetitive. It's back and forth between the cop shop, a bar and his car. He's like a player caught in an endless video game loop with no way out.The best part of this film is watching Executive Producer (yes EP) Daryl Hannah slum around. Her "Salt" is a pick-up truck driving undercover narc who looks like Liv Tyler on a bad hair day. The most innocent of the vice cops, Hannah's "Salt" spends most of the movie with her beautiful baby blues covered by black bangs as if she doesn't want to see all the corruption around her.The movie does end with a nice twist and since everyone has secrets, there are enough red herring to keep you guessing until the end.My advice, get this one when you have a free video rental coupon.