Rented Two Hands from last year. a good example, imo, of what looks like the "Americanization" of foreign movies. not that i'm complaining, mind you, as i like this flick.
it stars heath ledger (the cute blonde boy from Gidson's Patroit) as a cute blonde boy who looks sooo out of place as a doorman at a nudie bar in Australia (or England, not really clear) who starts down a bad career path when he gets involved with the mob as a money carrier. well, in what is one of the stupidest things i've seen a main character do in a movie, he loses the money and goes on the run from the mob.
blah, blah, blah - run, run, run.
this woulda been a pretty average flick, except that there is one chilling scene when a boy (who sees his best friend run over - and then the guy picks the kid (12 years old max) up and places him on the sidewalk and drives off .. while the other kid stands there looking) marches into the bad guys place and blows all 4 of the bad guys away with a glazed look in his eye). which, to me, made the movie
minor plot point: they kept talking about dollars .. but in Australia or England, don't they use pounds or some such thing? the money wasn't American currency - yet they kept calling it X amount of dollars - it was odd.
anyway, this turned out ot be a decent movie that i rather liked and not just because Heath is a hottie (even though i couldn't understand him some of the time).
