The Key Man (2011) Reviews

• Disappointing Payoff...

  MovieHoliks2015-06-10

  I saw this movie off Netflix yesterday, and despite a decent cast and good setup, the payoff didn't quite live up to it's first act. This movie concerns an insurance salesman (Jack Davenport, who I recall from a short-lived TV series on so many years ago called "Swing Town") who gets mixed up with two gangsters (Hugo Weaving & Brian Cox) in an effort to make more money and provide for his family, but things don't go as he planned. They set the film in 1975, which I don't think was exactly specified in the beginning, so I'm thinking to myself WTF??- land line phones, and look at those out of date clothes and '70s motifs?? LOL Well, anyway, THAT part of the film worked. I wish they would've used a good '70s soundtrack of tunes, but I'm guessing the budget on this thriller was too low for the rights to any songs-?? Carol Kane and Judy Greer round out the cast.

• I AM MY OWN CENTER OF GRAVITY

  nogodnomasters2018-09-26

  The film takes place in 1975 New England. Note the era whack-a-da sound track when they are running. Bobby (Jack Davenport) sells insurance policies and is at the bottom of his game. He is introduced to Vincent (Hugo Weaving) a man of means and culture. Vincent entices Bobby with the desire to buy an illegal policy, i.e. a Key Man policy where the Key Man refuses to be part of the deal. The jazz sound track made the film seem better than what it was. The drama was a bunch of talking and hand shaking and then at the end, the film changes gears rather inanely. His wife (Judy Greer) was never developed. He explains the whole thing to her in one line, "I did something stupid" because apparently he didn't think she could understand what he did. Bobby was a spineless individual who was our new criminal protagonist pitted against an old criminal antagonist. Just not exciting for me. The film didn't go anywhere for 2/3 of the film. Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.