100 Mile Rule

Customer Reviews:

Quite possibly the worst movie I have ever seen.......2007-05-14

I purchased this based on a recommendation from some one else. It started out in a manner that I thought would make the movie funny, but it got worse and continued on for the remainer of the film. When it was over I was thinking "there went an hour and a half of my life that I will never get back."

Must be my humor, too...........2006-10-02

Despite a lacklustre ending, I found the film dark and hilarious --- with a satisfying soundtrack to boot. The cast was great, namely (Cyndi Lauper's husband) David Thornton and McKean, who had great chemistry together. Although some are claiming they didn't laugh at all, I laughed out loud several times. Totally recommended for a lazy Sunday afternoon.

Not worth watching.......2006-08-10

A straight-laced businessman gets blackmailed by a woman he commits adultery with. His boss and co-worker tries to help him out of this situation (that the co-worker got him in).

I got this film to watch because the businessman is from Detroit (my hometown). The best scene to me was when the two co-workers beat an accomplice with a bag of...whatever and one says "Welcome to Detroit". Yes, the movie is that bad. Skip this one.

amusing.......2005-09-16

maybe it's my type of humor, maybe i was drunk enough, maybe i had a bad day, but i found it amusing.

neither funny nore suspenseful.......2005-04-15

This was a wildly uneven movie about coke-sniffing, blackmail and infidelity. A somewhat happily married man is seduced by a blackmailing hottie named Monica (played by Maria Bello) while in LA for a salesmanship seminar. Our hero is one of three salesman who finds himself the subject of extortion when it turns out that his fling with Monica was videotaped. Can he come up with the thirty grand he'll need to keep his wife from getting the tape? Can his fellow salemen (led by Michael McKean) save him? More to the point, will their help do more harm than good? The story plays out in the course of a single, seemingly endless night, as the fateful trio map out their options in their hotel room. On the other side of this blackmail scheme, Monica contends with her boyfriend - a dubious hotel bartender who seems more uncomfortable with the scheme than our victim does.

The end result tries to cross lines of funny and suspenseful, but never achieves either one alone. Initially, our heroes try to use guile - McKean reasons that Monica's blackmail boils down to a form of competitive salesmanship, and they're more professional at it than she is. Unfortunately, things will spiral out of control, with Monica going from playful to downright nasty. Death and cocaine further turn this movie into a mixture of "Big Kahuna" and "Very Bad Things". It holds your attention only because it convinces you that it's about to become something more than it ever does. Some of the plot twists seem forced, while others seem meaningless (since our characters are too dumb or scared to do anything more than what they've already set out to do). There's nary a laugh in the movie (though McKean does much to rectify that situation), nor much of a thrill. In short, this was deservedly low-rated flick.

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Starring: One Eyed King , and 100 Mile Rule
Manufacturer: Velocity / Thinkfilm
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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