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Title: Finder's Fee
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Genre: Thriller
Release Date: , 2001
MPAA Rating: R
Runtime: 100 baffling minutes
Director: Jeff Probst
Writer: Jeff Probst, Jim Gulian (story)
Distributor: Lion's Gate Films
 
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Rogue's Review:

Who the #@^k is Raymond??!

Finder's Fee has an exceedingly decent premise at its heart, but Probst doesn't have the skill to pull it off; there are plotholes and contrivances galore, the stupidest one being the way the cops show up to 'seal off' the building - we're never actually given a reason why this happens, just some odd line from Forster about someone named "Raymond getting stuck" somewhere. I truly have no clue who "Raymond" is. This horrendously bad plot device could have been easily explained by writing in something about how, say, they were looking for someone who had supposedly escaped from custody into the building.

I was thinking at one point that the cops (if indeed they WERE cops) were in on it with James Earl Jones' character (to keep him in the building so he could get the lottery ticket back), but that doesn't really hold water because near the end -=-POSSIBLE SPOILER -=- when Tepper gives Forster's character the ticket, Forster would have known it wasn't the right ticket (he would have KNOWN the winning 3 numbers from James Earl Jones' character). So he would have come back for the RIGHT ticket after checking it, blah blah blah. -=- END OF POSSIBLE SPOILER

I hate when movies do this to you, when a film is just not well-written enough to truly hold up but yet you're sucked in because it's written just well enough to keep your attention. This could have been a really decent movie if the writer had put some genuine thought into it. Three words: details, details, details.

 
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