Final Move (2006)
The LA police are baffled: someone is killing people who have been found innocent of violent crimes. At the crime scenes, DNA evidence and clues linked to chess point to a suspect who's dead, recently executed for murders with a similar M.O. The cops call on Dan Marlowe, an ex-cop with psychic gifts, in an asylum after the trauma of the initial investigation. His wife wants him to say no; her brother is his former partner, who leans on Dan to help. Dan's ex-lover, an FBI agent, is also on the case, and behind the scenes is Myron, Dan's chess partner at the asylum. The game turns more deadly when Dan and family become the target. Did the cops initially get the wrong man?
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Great visuals, story delivers no surprises
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
Soooooo bad I only sat through it because it was soooo bad it was almost comical (certainly funnier than some of Adam Sandler's movies). I paid 50 cents for this off the clearance shelf at the local cheap shop (the aptly named Reject Shop) with a few other titles, most of which were very watchable tele movies. The movie started with some bizarre editing where the screen blacks out every few seconds (thought I had a dud disc for a minute or two). The movie then proceeds with a combination of over acting, weak acting, appallingly cheap and hastily prepared gore effects, and then just when you think it's going to improve it dives back to poor editing, shoddy acting, even lamer "special" effects, and all the while the script is unravelling before the viewers eyes - more holes than a rusty sieve. But it was worth getting to the end to see the pile of dynamite in the centre of the room go off like a can of coke in a bonfire in a multitude of pyrotechnic fizzes as the "stars" are making their escape. Gaseous explosions then erupt from everywhere OTHER than the central location of the dynamite after their escape as if steel doors and concrete walls magically turned into flammable materials. The special effects guy and the script writer - I hope they have regular jobs. The casting guy must have liked blondes, all the ladies were attractive blondes, except for the main character's wife, but she must have been told to get her hair dyed blonde, which she did, but it was done very poorly, like everything else in this movie. 10 cents may have been a fairer price, as long as you have a bit of time to kill (or murder more like).
Start off with the directing. While brother John may have been able to get away with being a low talent writer and director- thanks to his undeserved Oscar for Rocky- Joey has a big zero in the talent department. While his actors are truly of the B-list caliber, his directing lowers their performances to a D- level. Their performances could easily be outdone by actors of adult films.And let's not forget the so-called authors of this play who covered no new ground but ripped off at least a dozen other manuscripts and screenplays to come up with an obvious ending. Then we finish with the tired cliché' of concluding the story by telling everything through a final meaningful dialogue.PS: As a retired police officer would someone tell these fools that that they are carrying their pistols wrong (do not bend the off-side elbow), and cops do NOT put their flashlights in front of them because that is exactly where the bad guys will aim! Duh!
"Final Move" is a disappointment, especially considering the B-list cast and director. I have very low standards when it comes to flicks like these.The plot is: The chess piece killer is at it again. After his last victim, he is caught and sentenced to death. After his execution, the killings don't stop. Which is weird for detective Marlowe (Schulze) who has psychic vision. He teams up with Roman Krieg (Lochlyn Munro) to stop the madness."Final Move" tries hard (too hard) to be a slick mystery-thriller. The opening credits are snazzy, but the opening scene is downright horrible: after the killer murders some woman, he takes off his mask and starts laughing for about ten minutes. You'll see.David Carradine and Daniel Baldwin don't have a lot of screen time despite their mugs on the cover. Schulze is alright, but his best role is in "The Transporter". The explosion near the end is faker than Milli Vanilli.If you like the actors, don't subject yourself to this mess.For more insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com
Yup, that's right, I joined IMDb just so I could add a comment about this movie. To anyone thinking of watching it?... RUN. take a nap, go play with your dog, go shopping, do ANYTHING but watch this! Amanda Detmer; what have you done!? She is the only one in the movie who seems to be able to act, and lowers herself considerably by being associated with this film. Lochlyn Monroe? I think I have now seen 2 or three movies he's in, one I can think of off the top of my head is Blacktop (thinking of watching it?... take the advice I have given regarding THIS movie and apply it to Blacktop) Low Budget? try NO budget. if they had one? they blew it paying Amanda. Overall, the movie has a bad and predictable script, and of the plethora of bad acting in the movie to choose from, the winner is Rachel Hunter. It's actually quite annoying, not only are her acting skills virtually non existent, but she also seems to have difficulty deciding if she has a British accent or not... sometimes she does, sometimes she doesn't. So, to sum up, this movie is horrible, so save your rental money, and more importantly, save your time and brain cells, take a nap, and thank me in the morning.