Michael-Madsen Movie Reviews

I first saw this movie when I was about 9 and it has been my favorite ever since! Not only does it have an amazing and very talented cast, it tells a true story about the joys, pains, fears, hopes, and dreams of young women everywhere and of war-torn america. It is sweet, humourous, bitter, and I cry every single time I see it (and I mean, I barely EVER cry at movies!) If you have not seen this movie, SEE IT NOW!

This movie is one of the best i've ever seen. Yes, it may be a little dated, but it's REALLY good! A league of their own also shows a good example of friendship, leadership, and women in sports. i encurage you to watch this video, at the very least. = )

This movie just blew me away. The cast is full of talented stars who give terrific performances. This movie tells a real story that most people don't know, and does it in a touching, funny, interesting way. Penny Marshall did an incredible job of directing, and the performances given by Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, and Madonna show it.

This is an action packed thriller with enough humor to blot out some of the bloody scenes. It's about an assasin who was raised by the asian mob but disobeyed orders so she had to escape to the US to save her life. However the corrupt bad guy played by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is not about to make her escape since she embarassed him before his people by giving him a beating. One of the most memorable and funny line was when Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa's character killed his girlfriend and declared "I have the worst luck with women"

After her warning to a Tong rival is rebuffed by the retaliatory slaying of her associates, the young assassin is spirited to the United States, where she is to live quietly until further notice, with a well-to-do business man who has been groomed into believing that she is his romantic - by e-mail - correspondent. Little does he suspect that her goggle-like glasses are the least of his worries.

But the man she has tangled with back in China - a chief of detectives - is relentless in his pursuit of her, and her cover is quickly blown, because of interdepartmental links with the LA police department, and their tie in with a bounty hunter and his team.

This is a moderately gory, yet comedic film, with fairly obvious filches from: Leon, The Assassin, Blade Runner, etc. The acting is all decent enough and the general production values are as good as most of Jackie Chan's output. The assassinette's dialogue and delivery is a riot, but not risible.

'Get dressed, Edward... we have unexpected guests.' She says calmly, as her killers close in.

A very watchable film.

A stylistic action film with an ecclectic cast. Basic fish out of water story with a twist. An introverted American computer nerd sends away for an Asian bride over the internet because he's had it with American women who he thinks are to hard and pushy. Little does he know that his docle little oriental wife- to-be is in reality an infamous Tong assissin, trained from birth to kill who has herself suddenly become the object of a world wide manhunt. One of the better roles Michael Madsen has had. With Richard Hatch, Brad Dourif, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and a very sexy newcomer named Chung Lai.

This film is based on a true story, where a blue-collar working man finds a bag of money that literally fell off an armored truck. The pandemonium and hilarity that follows is beautifully presented by John Cusack, definitely one of the best actors of our time. I've been following Cusack's films from Class in the 1980s through today, and I have not once been disappointed by his performance. He is in top form here, making the viewer wish that they both were and weren't in his shoes. Benicio del Toro is hilarious as a swindler, and Debi Mazar is pretty good as Cusack's on-again, off-again love interest. Gandolfini of HBO's The Sopranos also costars, and is fantastic as usual. If you like any of the actors mentioned, or just want to see a good film about a real event that seems unbelievable, get your hands on this one!

Don't let this film pass you by. Often stashed in the 'comedy' section of the video shelves this film is often more tense drama due to the fact it is based on actual events. In 1981 unemployed laborer Joey Coyle and his pal drive through the back streets of rotting industrial Philadelphia after another unsuccessful day of looking for work. In the middle of the street they find what Coyle thinks might make a good tool box. It in fact has fallen from an armored truck and contains over a million dollars. There is humor, but more anxiety along the way as John Cusak, who portrays Coyle stuggles with what to do next. Michael Madsen gives an excellent performance as a detective from the same neighborhood who urges a reward that will be enough for the impoverished locals to buy a house. Maury Chaykin has a memorable scene as a mob boss trying to swindle Cusak and explains why Ben Franklin is his favorite currency portrait. A heartbreaking and tragic look at 1980's recession America.

I just seen Money For Nothing and I think it was a great movie that kept me entertaining. The true story of Joey Coyle was very interesting because some people who find 1.2 million dollars out of a Armored car are shelfish enough to keep it and do goofy things to try to get away with it . This film was shot in locations I was filmilar with including the Old Airport and near monoghela river in my hometown of Pittsburgh, PA. John Cusack was just great.

Director Roger Spottiswoode (Shoot To Kill) somehow manages to turn this relatively low-budget, steamy and very stylish tale of intrigue and murderous passions into a masterful movie reminiscent of those with much larger budgets. Treat Williams very effectively portrays Scott Weston, a private investigator and hopeless womanizer, who finds himself with a desperate new client: himself. Hired to trail a millionaire's alluring wife (skillfully played by Virginia Madsen), he falls into a torrid love affair with her, and becomes the main suspect when the millionaire is murdered. Set-up or not? Find out for yourself in this very slick and stylish Paramount offering that is a must see film for fans of the multi-talented and often unheralded Virginia Madsen. Complete with a very effective in setting tone original music score by Charles Gross, this movie is as entertaining as it is well made. A real sleeper in the true sense of the word, this is a rare gem you can enjoy by watching more than once. If you somehow missed this relatively unknown film, do yourself a favor and see it soon! Excellent!

This film intrigued me...very suspenseful. But, it also turned me into a huge fan of Virginia Madsen...wish she was in more films.

Director Roger Spottiswoode (Shoot To Kill) somehow manages to turn this relatively low-budget, steamy and very stylish tale of itrigue and murderous passions into a masterful movie reminiscent of those with much larger budgets. Treat Williams very effectively portrays Scott Weston, a private investigator and hopeless womanized, who finds himself with a desperate new client: himself. Hired to trail a millionaire's alluring wife (skillfully played by Virginia Madsen), he falls into a torrid love affair with her, and becomes the main suspect when the millionaire is murdered. Set-up or not? Find out for yourself in this very slick and stylish Paramount offering that is a must see film for fans of the multi-talented and often unheralded Virginia Madsen. Complete with a very effective-in-setting-tone original music score by Charles Gross, this movie is as entertaining as it is well made. A real sleeper in the true sense of the word, this is a rare gem you can enjoy by watching more than once. If you somehow missed this relatively unknown film, do yourself a favor an see it soon! Excellent!

I'd have to echo the previous reviewers and say this is an excellent road picture. WIth a great cast.

Patricia Arquette and Michael Madsen are amazingly wonderful in this film. And I don't understand why this film is not on sale anymore. Is there any way we could get it back. I'm dying to buy it. This is the best road movie I've ever seen in years !

This is one rockin road pic, it just keeps getting stranger, I cuoldn't stop laughing. Rustam Branaman and Billy Bob thornton are great as bad guys.

I'd have to echo the previous reviewers and say this is an excellent road picture. WIth a great cast.

Patricia Arquette and Michael Madsen are amazingly wonderful in this film. And I don't understand why this film is not on sale anymore. Is there any way we could get it back. I'm dying to buy it. This is the best road movie I've ever seen in years !

This is one rockin road pic, it just keeps getting stranger, I cuoldn't stop laughing. Rustam Branaman and Billy Bob thornton are great as bad guys.

I'd have to echo the previous reviewers and say this is an excellent road picture. WIth a great cast.

Patricia Arquette and Michael Madsen are amazingly wonderful in this film. And I don't understand why this film is not on sale anymore. Is there any way we could get it back. I'm dying to buy it. This is the best road movie I've ever seen in years !

This is one rockin road pic, it just keeps getting stranger, I cuoldn't stop laughing. Rustam Branaman and Billy Bob thornton are great as bad guys.

quentin tarantino has always made good movies..i mean, let's begin from pulp fiction. in my dvd player right now. it's a classic, which has more punchlines than the matrix has numbers.
the time cutting, the violence turned into the funny parts because of samuel l jackson's commentaries, and you can watch it over, and over, and over again.

reservoir dogs. pure brilliance. old story, you've heard it a billion times. a heist goes wrong, who's the snitch, etc. but cast amazing actors for each lead role, and you already have a good movie. let tarantino make it? the shots are beautiful.

let's get to the point tho, im too tired to talk about his other flicks. kill bill is so amazingly great because it contains a bunch of props, and lines, from other movies (the black mask for example - from "black mask"). it suddenly turns into anime, which i love, all the waterfall blood in the movie brings you back to those cheap, wu tang,fearless dragon movies...which is cool as hell..and the whole soundtrack is just samples compilated by the Rza, from the Wu-Tang Clan (one of my favorite groups). i cant wait for volume 2. thats basically it.

thanks quentin. never stop.ever.please.

This movie doesn't come out for months, and I still know its the best movie ever made. Snoogens

While skirting the edges of formula, this film nevertheless manages to include a few elements of originality that definitely place it above the norm in the thriller arena.

Gena Hayes, a single mother of a five year old son, watches in shock and grief as her young son's life is destroyed by a yakuza in a drugstore wearing a silver mask. She sees a blue tiger tatoo on the yakuza's chest and does some research, ultimately finding a tatoo artist who knows its signficance. When she has him ink a red tiger on her bare skin, following the legend of the meeting of the two tigers, it's purely for revenge.

So the revenge motif, long a staple of the thriller--American and otherwise--pins the story's plot to its characters. But here the writing and directing are both fresh and lean, so there is a minimum of unnecessary grunting, emoting, slipshod hammy dialogue, and pointless commanding and commandeering (i.e., You do this; Steal that truck...etc.)

Instead what we have is a sharper, crisper entry in the East meets West thriller department (the setting is Los Angeles' Little Tokyo) whose momentum is strong and confident enough to pull you to the finale which is a meting out of just desserts. More important than the inner working of the yakuza is Gena's own thinking on how to find the one who killed her child. (For a more in-depth, gritty, and intense portrayal of the yakuza, see a few films by Fukasaku like Battles Without Honor or Humanity, or Yakuza Graveyard--or by Beat Takeshi, like Sonatine).

Harry Dean Stanton here plays a reclusive tatoo artist and acquits himself well. Only one logical flaw comes to mind here. Is there only ONE man with a blue tiger tatoo?

You decide.

This movie was well done. It got it's message across on how revenge motivates people to do things. Madsen was execellent as the mother out for justice. The other actors did well also. I'd recomend this to everyone I see.

If your into action movies, this is right up your alley. It keeps you hooked. Virginia Madsen does a great job as a mother getting revenge on the person you killed her son. I'd recommend this to all my friends.

While skirting the edges of formula, this film nevertheless manages to include a few elements of originality that definitely place it above the norm in the thriller arena.

Gena Hayes, a single mother of a five year old son, watches in shock and grief as her young son's life is destroyed by a yakuza in a drugstore wearing a silver mask. She sees a blue tiger tatoo on the yakuza's chest and does some research, ultimately finding a tatoo artist who knows its signficance. When she has him ink a red tiger on her bare skin, following the legend of the meeting of the two tigers, it's purely for revenge.

So the revenge motif, long a staple of the thriller--American and otherwise--pins the story's plot to its characters. But here the writing and directing are both fresh and lean, so there is a minimum of unnecessary grunting, emoting, slipshod hammy dialogue, and pointless commanding and commandeering (i.e., You do this; Steal that truck...etc.)

Instead what we have is a sharper, crisper entry in the East meets West thriller department (the setting is Los Angeles' Little Tokyo) whose momentum is strong and confident enough to pull you to the finale which is a meting out of just desserts. More important than the inner working of the yakuza is Gena's own thinking on how to find the one who killed her child. (For a more in-depth, gritty, and intense portrayal of the yakuza, see a few films by Fukasaku like Battles Without Honor or Humanity, or Yakuza Graveyard--or by Beat Takeshi, like Sonatine).

Harry Dean Stanton here plays a reclusive tatoo artist and acquits himself well. Only one logical flaw comes to mind here. Is there only ONE man with a blue tiger tatoo?

You decide.

This movie was well done. It got it's message across on how revenge motivates people to do things. Madsen was execellent as the mother out for justice. The other actors did well also. I'd recomend this to everyone I see.

If your into action movies, this is right up your alley. It keeps you hooked. Virginia Madsen does a great job as a mother getting revenge on the person you killed her son. I'd recommend this to all my friends.