Cees T
Good, but forgettable. 6.5/10
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
03/22/24
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Flick F
Quick Change is a quietly underrated, very entertaining film. Quotable too, very well written. The cast is top notch, Murray and Quaid are exactly what you expect from these two. Geena Davis, perfect fit in this film. This is a go to for me and my friends and we quote it all of the time. Most of you probably haven't heard of or seen this film but you should.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
08/26/23
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Films On Blast F
dark and hilarious. a deeply disturbing movie that holds the mirror up to humanity. BM is the best.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
05/29/23
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Nancy S
Truly a big laugh out loud movie, I roared. I think being from Long Island, NY and dealing with traffic, especially in Queens and NYC helped heighten the laughs. Great performances all around, from leads to minor parts. Well written, including intelligent slapstick in parts. It's a fun, fun movie.
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
03/15/23
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Saso Q
Quick Change is an important film, a valuable addition to the cinematic imaginary of escaping from New York, escaping as a Midnight Cowboy, escaping at the 25th Hour, but whichever way, escaping from a pit of despair. This film captures such transcendent thematic perfectly, and has only two major flaws readily identifiable; namely, that the escape plan depends on two factors, the first being they must slip away from their police 'rescuers' before the bank is raided, and the second being that they must have the utmost confidence that their phone calls will not be traced or identified. The first difficulty is that once they put themselves into the hands of the police and medical staff as 'released hostages', they are no longer in control of how long they will be held-up in that condition. Any move they make to quicken their processing or to slip from their 'hosts' would immediately raise the highest suspicion, so they can only hope they are released from their medical and administrative hiatus before a lack of response from inside the bank triggers an incursion. So too, they must have tremendous confidence that calling from a pay phone on a New York street will not result in any background noise that will betray their location. Given that it is in fact New York, there is no need for accidents with car horns for them to be denounced by the widespread cacophony of the streets of the city. Then, as far as calling from Fiji, again, they must somehow be sure that no caller identification or call tracing will be implemented.
All this goes without mentioning that, clever as the reverse-psychology they used to vote themselves as the first three hostages to be released may have been, the entire plan rested upon reverse-psychology overcoming the primal selfishness and direct survival instincts of their New York prisoners, and this level of confidence is obviously bordering upon abject insanity.
Put together, these are, it goes without saying, serious issues with the credibility and realism of an otherwise important and poignant work. Now if you will excuse me, the orderly wants me back in my room for lights out.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
03/10/23
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Taylor L
One of the great things about old heist movies is how silly the hauls sound - Bill Murray straps a bomb to his chest, holds up an uptown city bank at gunpoint, and commits an act of terrorism, all for $1,000,000 split three ways. You couldn't buy a single-family home in the suburbs for that 30 years later.
Quick Change is the only directing credit Murray has to his name, but it's a film that highlights his strengths as an actor: the funny man with the stressed-out, sarcastic tone, as if he's the smartest man in the room and he's tired of everyone's crap. In this role, he leads a trio of bank robbers - Geena Davis as the confident actress and Randy Quaid's bumbling childhood friend. Together, their heist goes smooth as butter but they somehow find that their every attempt to get out of the city with their stash comes undone through interactions with a series of colorful characters, as if New York itself is working against them. The escape is kind of dated (basically every problem our trio of unfortunate thieves run into could have easily been solved by an app on your average smartphone nowadays), but it's consistently got a good if not stellar sense of humor in the misadventures across town. The supporting cast is really impressive, with an elderly Jason Robards serving as a dignified foil and a host of recognizable faces in smaller roles - Stanley Tucci, Phil Hartman, Kurtwood Smith, and Tony Shalhoub - make the jaunt across town seem memorable.
Not a great all-time comedy or anything, but does what it sets out to do. (3/5)
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/11/23
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