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Michael Chiklis gives a powerhouse performance, its great to see him as a villain in the film he produced and brings on Whitaker to have scenes with. Because it is trying too hard to be clever and twisted narrating with jumps from character to character (the cop, then the crooks, then the hero, then the mobster, then the wife...and keeps going). It keeps the pace moving fast and keeps things interesting. Some people maybe love this, but I am not one of them.

There are restless fingers on every trigger. Fashion designer Amer Atrash, perpetually on the verge of success, is undergoing a personal crisis in both his marriage and his business.

A cop walks in on a robbery in progress. The most successful thing about Pawn is the direction and set-up. Pawn cast: Sung Dong Il, Ha Ji Won, Kim Hee Won.

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"Pawn's" cops and robbers game could have been far better played. Borat is back! Coming Soon. Sidney Poitier’s 7 Most Memorable Performances, All Harry Potter Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer.

crime, April 19, 2013 A young man, broke and jobless, abducts three rich college kids to try and get money from their fathers.

And from this simple set up spools out a twisted web of story threads, layered narrative, and constantly shifting points of view. An all-night diner. Simple - save for Murphy's law: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. With Jessica Szohr, Forest Whitaker, Michael Chiklis, Nikki Reed. When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore entrepreneur.

Pawn. This includes a script with logic-defying twists, and an ending that simply feels too neat. Good for a long night when you run out of all other movies to watch. The characterizations are shallow and one-note.

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A solid and hard-edged crime-drama.

Cinemark Menu. As it gets going, you start to write it off as a boring latest addition to this fad, but thankfully if you stick with it the plot isn't as needlessly complicated as it could have been and manages to be intelligent without being over indulgent.Pawn is the latest in what is quite a popular trend at the moment. An all-night diner. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your account. Coming Soon. I've never heard of this movie, but with the cast including Forest Whitaker , Michael Chiklis ("The Shield"), Ray Liotta ("Goodfellas"), Common ("Hell on Wheels"), and actors from "Twilight," "Gossip Girl," and many more could not be ignored. By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. But the actors to notice are the young and talented Nikki Reed and Sean Faris, who are both terrific in the film. Taken on its own merits, as a B thriller, Pawn is largely successful.

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A twisted web of story threads, layered narrative, and constantly shifting points of view. Pawn And one very intense hostage situation is about to take some extremely shocking twists. Please click the link below to receive your verification email. Add the first question.

Pawn is a 2013 American direct-to-video film directed by David A. Armstrong in his directorial debut. There are restless fingers on every trigger. The exposition at the diner, and how the different players were introduced, was done to a good effect. Such actors seem to have a good chemistry, a necessity for such a confined story.

| Rating: 2/5 Pretty early in, it soon becomes clear it's going to be yet another of these 'reverse plotting' thrillers that was edgy and experimental when it first started but are getting a bit tiresome now, with each one trying to be cleverer than the last one, making you yearn for a good old, simple dramatic thriller like they made in the old days.

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Another crooked cop shows up (for uncertain reasons). A well-crafted, sharply performed and very engaging movie that packs a full-clip of nail-biting suspense and and hair-trigger tension from start to finish. A stylish and razor sharp cops and robbers game. But for a film of its caliber, Pawn does seem to pack a surprising punch.

A great film. But it does so in an efficient, competent and satisfying one, and is intelligently short so it doesn't stretch your patience any more than it does a little at the beginning.

Hostage dramas have conventions; if "Pawn" skirts too close to them at the end, and has too many characters, it still keeps the game interesting. A mother takes her children and flees an abusive ex-husband.

Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. Soon, they find themselves in a life-or-death struggle to stop a deadly plot before it's too late. | Rating: C- Coming Soon. The image is an example of a ticket confirmation email that AMC sent you when you purchased your ticket. 3/5 Stars. Pawn (Korean Movie); 담보; Dambo;Guarantee;Collateral; A human drama about a man who would do anything for money becoming friends with a child who is then taken The result of this directing and writing is that film's pretensions to mystery at the end are over explained. Anchor Bay Entertainment, STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday MorningOfficer Will (Forest Whitaker) wonders in to an all night diner, and soon becomes aware that all is not as it seems- that, in fact, a robbery being staged by Derrick (Michael Chiklis) and his cronies is in progress.

This direct-to-video crime thriller is setting this cop into the middle of an armed robbery. Sign up here. There are no approved quotes yet for this movie. The cast was also strong, with performances by such great character actors as Forest Whitaker, Ray Liotta, and even Michael Chiklis. This FAQ is empty. But what happens next - and what happened just before - will change everything you think you know. I went in knowing very little and came out very impressed. But what happens next - and what happened just before - will change everything you think you know. Just below that it reads "Ticket Confirmation#:" followed by a 10-digit number. A cop walks in on a robbery in progress. | Top Critics (2) Use the HTML below. |, July 9, 2020

Why? mystery and thriller, Every move is a game changer.