Hard Boiled Sweets

2012

Crime / Thriller

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 22% · 9 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 24% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.8/10 10 873 873

pimp money double crossed

Director

David L.G. Hughes Photo
David L.G. Hughes

Top cast

Philip Barantini Photo
Philip Barantini as Dean
Peter Wight Photo
Peter Wight as Jimmy The Gent
Laura Greenwood Photo
Laura Greenwood as Delta
Paul Freeman Photo
Paul Freeman as Shrewd Eddie
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
774.58 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 4
1.55 GB
1920*816
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by roper72 1 / 10

Awful.

A boring, derivative, badly directed and amateurishly written film. The only other review on IMDb is written by a crew member's relative, and the quote on the poster was paid for - see the readers talk back section on Ain't-it-cool (www.aintitcool.com/node/53709). The real reviews have called it "the worst film of the year", which is much closer to the truth. The characters are clichéd, the plot badly-structured, it has no humour, no suspense, it's glib and cynical. The only thing to take away from this waste of time is that it's an exercise in dishonest film marketing - I guess that's to be expected, as the "director" is a trailer editor. He should stick to doing just that and let the grown-ups make films.
Reviewed by Sandcooler 5 / 10

Excellent plot, miserable dialogues

"Hard Boiled Sweets" is yet another one of those indie crime thrillers that go for a Tarantino vibe and fail miserably. It bathes in a faux- cool atmosphere, I never thought you could squeeze so many embarrassing attempts at clever one-liners into just one movie. Every line needs to be a Mark Twain quote, because what else would you do with your dialogues? Explore your characters, shed some light on their motivations? That seems difficult, let's skip that part. It's kind of a shame really, because this movie does have a very crafty plot. There are several twists you genuinely do not see coming, and usually that's good enough for me to like a movie. But the clever plot is just drowned out with one groan-inducing line after the other, so this is a tough movie to rate. I don't think I've ever been this irritated by a movie I enjoyed so much. Make of that what you will.
Reviewed by kosmasp 5 / 10

Good basic idea

The movie is based on a short story and that is (my guess) why and how the filmmaker got the money to do the movie. The short movie is on the DVD (I'd think every nation must have it, but check before you buy/rent it of course) and you can watch it afterwards to see the differences. It's not that long and if you liked at least the idea you can judge for yourself what you think of it.Of course the short movie is expanded a lot and ends on a different note too. The acting is decent enough for a movie like this and it might surprise you from times to times. Still there are quite a few things that are wrong. You might care about them or not (it tries too hard to be cool, story flaws and filmmaking flaws), but let's see where this filmmaker is going.
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