City of Industry Reviews

To be honest, I wasn't expecting much from this flick but since I had this movie on DVD like forever, I thought it was really time to watch the damned thing. First of all, have you ever noticed that if a heist takes place at the end, there is about 95% chances that it will end well for whoever was involved? But if the heist takes place earlier in the film, you can be pretty sure that it would end badly somehow. I had actually never paid attention to this until I watched this flick. Not that it was really good, it was actually pretty weak , especially Famke Janssen was rather unconvincing as a supposedly white-trash housewife (to cast a previous Dutch model for this part was also pretty risky). To be honest, not everything was worthless. Indeed, I have to admit that I really didn’t see the twist coming after the heist but I'm not sure if it was because the whole thing was clever or in fact poorly put together. At least, Harvey Keitel was clearly rising above the poor material and the guy managed to deliver a solid performance. Another surprise was to see a very young topless Lucy Liu in a very short scene. To conclude, even though it wasn’t a complete failure, it was still pretty weak though and I don't think it is really worth a look.