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Antonio Banderas, James van der Beek, Sam Elliott, Autumn Reeser, William Fichtner, Sienna Guillory, Thomas Kretschmann, Rebecca Mader, Delroy Lindo (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Late one night, Los Angeles private investigator Ned Cruz (Antonio Banderas) gets a visit from a recently paroled Russian boxer with an intriguing job offer: find Lexie, his missing girlfriend - and the 30-million dollar stash of diamonds she's hiding. As Detective Cruz sets out to find her, the clues send him into the city's seediest corners, from a Hollywood action star with a dirty little secret (James Van Der Beek), to an enterprising porn producer who takes a personal interest in his own work (Snoop Dog), and a kinky waitress with an unusual fetish for particle physics ( Autumn Reeser). Lexie probes to be as elusive as she is beautiful and Cruz becomes obsessed with finding her. With time running out, Cruz discovers the trail leads to reclusive billionaire (Sam Elliott), and his physicist (Jimmi Simpson), intent on recreating The Bing Bang underneath the New Mexico desert. Tailed by a trio of cops also looking to find the missing diamonds, and with the body count piling up, Cruz soon realizes that what appeared to be a standard missing person's case is anything but, and could quite possibly bring about the end of the world as we know it. (Verleiher-Text)
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Ein halluzinogenes Thriller-Etwas mit einem intensiven zweitklassigen Charakter. Und damit meine ich nicht nur das Licht wie aus einem TV-Hustler-Film aus den 80ern und halsbrecherische Kamera-Winkel, sondern auch die Wahl mancher Schauspieler*innen und die Darstellung ihrer Figuren. Wenn es nicht einige Sprüche von Banderas und eine verrückte Entwicklung der Handlung im letzten Drittel gäbe, welche die Neugier der Zuschauer*innen weckt, wäre es wirklich eine Tragödie. Als Basis für einen so billig ausschauenden Film ein Flashback-Erzählen der Geschichte voller Fragen zu wählen, ist schon an sich ein Harakiri.
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I honestly can't remember the last time I saw Antonio Banderas in a solid, hard-hitting role where he really owned the screen. These days, he’s either voicing Puss in Boots, dealing with those annoyingly bratty Spy Kids, or showing up in forgettable roles that don’t even come close to the old Desperado days. The Big Bang had potential, but the whole thing was dragged down by a painfully dull atmosphere. It felt like a slow march toward boredom. Banderas is just going through the motions, moving from scene to scene like a ghost, trying to bring some energy to a film that’s completely lifeless.
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