Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

billcr12 .45 stars Milla Jovovich as Kat, a girl who grows tired of being beaten by her boyfriend, big Al, a gun dealer and low life in general. She finally works up the courage to leave him and befriends Liz(Aisha Tyler), a counselor at a women's shelter.Another woman, Vic(Sarah Strange) also tries to help Kat and is in love with her in a romantic way.The final piece of the puzzle is Reilly(Stephen Dorff), another criminal who is a partner of big Al's and like everyone else, lusts for the sexy Kat. He tells her to get revenge on her former lover by killing him.Kat must make a big decision as to whether or not do away with Al forever or just go along her merry way. New York City is the backdrop for .45 and it works well, as usual, for a street crime drama. Milla Jovovich is convincing as the gun moll, Kat, and the story is interesting enough for a rating of 7.

Madison The movie is great. I love it. Thanks to the deep script-writing, the world in the film is gritty and surreal. First off, .45 starts off extremely strong. Viewers should first know that the movie's clear theme is sex. Can't go ten minutes without a scene involving some form of love. While this doesn't bother me, it may bother others.Milla Jovovich excellently plays the woman Kat, a beautiful if-abused woman who is the girlfriend of arms dealer "Al." As Kat and Al's relationship gets worse over her selling weapons, the movie also decides to take a dive. Not only is it never explained how she was able to manipulate all of her friends, but she has a quick attitude change halfway through the movie. She goes from being a soft woman scared of the real word to a hard-ass b&%#$ who isn't scared of anybody. The change isn't subtle; one scene she's scared, the next she's facing down Al in a courtroom.The movie becomes quite confusing here. Not only does the movie ditch some of the strongest characters (Kat's friend and Reilly) but it also leaves a giant cliffhanger. The movie is supposedly about getting revenge on Al, but there's never really any of that.I would blame all of this on the script. It goes from great to "meh" in about 5 minutes flat, actually. Like I said, starts off strong...falters and dies at the end like an old car engine.I would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys Milla Jovovich's acting like I certainly do. Otherwise, stray away from this movie,

gfelidi WOW what an incredible surprise this movie turned out to be. It is not your run of the mill action flicks that are collecting dust at the video store. A very original take on the action genre as it starts out light and explodes into a serious action drama. What makes it so original is the writing and directing from Gary Lennon, with it's light comedic touches coupled with it's raw energy and realistic moments. Gary Lennon has gotten the best performances from his actors, easily Milla Jovovich's best performance of her career and her chemistry with Angus Macfayden is palpable and layered as in real life. Mr. Lennon allows her character to undergo a metamorphisis that is so interesting to watch that you feel you are peeking into people's lives, which is very rare for an action movie.This a must have movie to be added to any cinemaphiles collection. Looking forward to seeing Mr. Lennon's next movie.

alienworlds This was a strange movie in many ways to me. At one point in the movie the female lead gets beaten up by her boyfriend and she takes it...that I found very hard to believe since they were a couple who were involved with selling guns on an ongoing basis, and as everybody knows-guns and physical violence aka physical fighting-don't mix. I found the female leads submissiveness to be not realistic-if anything-things would have gone hard into the opposite direction if that had been real life-a tough woman is just as dangerous in a physical conflict as a tough male, and this film doesn't seem to appreciate that for all its nods to street culture and tough people, etc, etc. Other than that and that is a big inconsistency-the film had some good characterizations and had a good pace, but I think the script used too much profanity in an effort to show just how tough these folk were-it didn't always work-at times it came off kind of grindy. Anyway, different, but maybe not so much like da real deal.