Better Than You Might Think...
Yesterday: 2 mile run in Noe Valley. Today: 2 mile run in Noe Valley.
Click to view"Trespass" (1992) was Walter Hill's re-take on the themes of "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre." I had all but forgotten about the movie, but Amazon suggested it based on my recent purchase of "Escape from L.A." It was something I saw in theatres, and I vaguely remembered it being worthy, so I decided to give it a whirl. Starring Ice T, Ice Cube, Bill Paxton, and William Sadler, (you had to be named "Ice" or "Bill" to be in the cast, apparently) it's considerably better than you might imagine. While not truly rising to the ranks of "lost classic", it is a worthwhile way to spend a drizzly Saturday afternoon, especially as the plot winds tighter and tighter, and the protagonists get in deeper and deeper. While the end is visible from a great way off, (must everyone get exactly what they deserve?) it was still well worth the $5 it cost me on Amazon.
Also of note: The gangsters have the advantage over the protagonists throughout the film because they have all adopted a new-for-the-time technology: cellular telephones. It's amusing to cast a glance back at the era of non-cell ubiquity.
For some reason this film also made me want to revisit "Judgment Night", a film I don't recall being any good at all. That'll be coming up soon on "B-Movie Reappraisals With Steve."
Steve