Dead Fish (2005)
Genre: Crime / Comedy
Duration: 91 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom / Germany
Directed by: Charley Stadler
Stars: Gary Oldman, Robert Carlyle and Billy Zane
IMDb score:
5,3 (3.594)
Releasedate: 11 October 2005
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Dead Fish plot
"Traitors, killers and lovers collide in London."
Abe is not having the best day of his life. Mimi, his Spanish girlfriend, tells him that she is pregnant and takes a plane to Madrid in an exhausted state. Then Abe clashes with mobster Danny Devine, who gives him 24 hours to repay his debt. Then his cell phone is also switched with that of a hit man, causing Abe to accidentally get the order to kill someone. Now Abe must try to raise enough money to pay back Devine and also try to win back his girlfriend Mimi. Would he manage without killing anyone or being killed himself?
Actors and actresses
Lynch
Danny Devine
French Prostitute (as Anoushka Bolton Lee)
Sugar Waters
Deck Day
Frank Rosenheim (as Kevin R. McNally)
Mimi
Abe Klein (as Andrew-Lee Potts)
Thief
Rainbow
Reviews & comments
Donkerwoud
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- 8696 messages
- 3960 votes
A painful combination of a great concept and a stellar cast, but ultimately it's subpar. It wants so hard to be hip and trendy that it's actually not.
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606
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- 23882 messages
- 12285 votes
Still quite surprisingly fun at times.
The acting was very good at least.
There wasn't a whole lot of action, but that's not a big deal.
3 stars
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Lovelyboy
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- 3953 messages
- 2955 votes
Friday night kicked off with this Dead Fish, whose title didn't ring a bell and I took a chance on it because of the cast. At home, I realized I had actually seen the film, thanks to a comment on my previous MovieMeter account where I hadn't been particularly positive about it. Anyway, I gave it a try, and it wasn't exactly a success.
The premise is clear, with loan sharks, hitmen, mafia bosses, and a bunch of not-so-bright characters caught in the middle. This quickly leads to comparisons with Guy Ritchie's best films like Lock Stock and Snatch, but that's where the comparison with these films and the genre ends. Because aside from a more than decent cast and the gorgeous Elena Anaya, it's ultimately all rather pathetic, as is the humor, which is only occasionally enjoyable, when Lynch combs a strip club in a miner's helmet.
It's not boring because there's plenty going on, but it's all exceptionally mediocre. The characters aren't particularly likable, the humor isn't either, the story surrounding Abe is just as uninteresting as Lynch's puppy love. It just doesn't add up, and it feels like it drags on too long, even though it's only an hour and a half. As a result, this might be one of the worse films I've seen this year.
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