Director: Brent Huff
Writers: Brent Huff, William Shockley, and Douglas L. Walton
Cast: Brian Dennehy, Julian Sands, Rebecca Pidgeon, Alano Massi, and Shawn Huff

Cat CityOwed money, cheating spouses, shady criminals…these are the staples of crime thrillers. Cat City, directed by Brent Huff, makes good use of these in this latest attempt. The film follows  , a couple who’s marriage is seemingly on the rocks. Then comes in Jonas (Massi), a seemingly harmless stranger…but of course things aren’t always what they seem.

My main problem with Cat City isn’t that the story is nothing new. I rarely even expect much originality as far as plot goes with thrillers these days. However, to make such a story work the movie needs interesting characters and something to captivate the audience. I couldn’t really find that in Cat City.

While it wasn’t a trainwreck, I found myself often not caring what happened to the characters. Whether they were the “good guys” or the “bad guys,” either way I was not attached to any. The standout, however, was the film’s biggest star with ironically the smallest amount of screen time; Brian Dennehy. He played a private eye with some connection to the scheme at hand.

While I didn’t hate the movie, I can’t say I particularily enjoyed it. It wasn’t badly put together, and the acting was decent. But again I find the problem, as I do with most of these types of movies, lying in the writing. Nothing jumped out to me. The best part of the story came at the ending, I always love a good twist ending. Sadly, many may tune out before this one even gets there.

On a side note: I’m not sure who OK’ed the DVD cover, but there were no hot fast cars and I’m pretty sure the sexy woman is not one of the actresses.
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