Uncertain gangster drama that wastes considerable talents of Marvin and Hackman, two marvelous actors. Its one kick (or kink) wears thin fast: that's to ascribe the worst of moral degeneracy (drug trafficking and white slavery) to rural America and to blaspheme typical American romantic rural imagery with sin.
Days have been so hot lately I had to keep the air conditioner on all the night to prevent the room from turning into a human furnace. The trouble is that the machine is quite noisy and I had to reduce the volume on TV to let my wife sleep.
Grindhouse Meets Hollywood What happens when you mix a plot so depraved and risky it could only be grindhouse, with Hollywood stars and production. You get this lost gem.
Prime Cut is directed by Michael Ritchie and written by Robert Dillon. It stars Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek, Angel Tompkins, Gregory Walcott and Janit Baldwin.
What a bonkers movie this is: gangsters turned into sausages, naked teenage virgins sold at cattle markets, a hard man called Mary Ann, car-eating combine harvesters, sausage-wielding hit-men - this one's got them all. It's also got Lee Marvin acting very cool as a dapper fixer for the Irish mob in Chicago who's dispatched to the mid-west to secure payment from a defaulting Gene Hackman who literally turned their last enforcer into sausage-meat.
Dear Gangster and action movie fans,I bet you haven't heard of Prime Cut. It has one of the most original title sequences that would offend the hell out of the Hindutva brigade.
Michael Ritchie's lurid--maybe vile is the better choice--gangster against gangster flick, Prime Cut is beyond description because, 30+ years after seeing it, I still don't know what kind of movie it was trying to be.Let's see.
An interesting item on the resume of Michael Ritchie, the late director whose other credits include "Downhill Racer", "The Candidate", and "Fletch", the fast-paced and tongue-in-cheek crime drama "Prime Cut" succeeds at being an amusing piece of work. It's just sleazy and off kilter enough to make it a good if not memorable entertainment.
Sadistic gangster flick which is brutal and demented just to get the audience to buy tickets. Middle-aged Lee Marvin is a psycho killer with a heart of gold.
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