Splinter

Posted by fetchblog

November 24, 2007

IMDB - 5.4/10

Synopsis

“On the mean streets of LA, two gangsters - - Dreamer (Almeida) and Dusty (Noel G.) - - unite over the mysterious murder of their brother. Dreamer, with the bullet that killed his brother still lodged in his skull, is desperately seeking revenge when he crosses paths with Detective Gramm (Atis), a confident rookie cop partnered with corrupt veteran Cunningham (Sizemore). Amidst a rising body count and the threat of an all-out gang war, the four characters lock themselves in a brutal end-game as they discover who among them is creating the brutal chaos.” Written by Olmos, Michael D.

Reviews

Two reliable acting pros, Tom Sizemore and Edward James Olmos, do what they do best in this gritty crime drama: Sizemore gets ample opportunity to deliciously, appropriately, chew the scenery as a cop of questionable integrity, and Olmos lends his dignified gravitas to the role of a police captain. If only Michael D. Olmos’s (Edward’s son) film focused on them. Instead, the main concern is the mystery surrounding the murder of a gang leader, which is investigated by both Sizemore’s straight-arrow rookie partner (Resminé Atis) and the gang leader’s brother (Enrique Almeida, who co-wrote the script with the director and Adrian Cruz), who not only was there when it happened, the killshot bullet is lodged in his skull and has rendered him partly amnesiac. There’s some promise in the central idea, but any audience investment it could have generated is done in by the performances either awkward (Almeida) or downright amateurish (Atis). The terrific animated main titles and some clever visual flourishes such as a cheeky western-style standoff with a floating plastic paper bag as an ersatz tumbleweed show Olmos to be an interesting stylist, and one is interested in what other, better films he can make in the future.

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