Safe Men

Safe Men is a 1998 American criminal comedy film written and directed by John Hamburg in his directorial debut, and stars Sam Rockwell and Steve Zahn as a pair of aspiring lounge singers who are mistaken for ace safe crackers, and get mixed up with a Jewish mobster, Big Fat Bernie Gayle Michael Lerner and Big Fats intern, Veal Chop Paul Giamatti.

In August 1998, The New York Times called it a lowenergy comedy with sufficient signs of willingness to stray off the beaten track to indicate that somewhere down the line its writer and director, John Hamburg, will create something far better. Roger Ebert gave the film one star out of four, saying it whirls wildly from one bright idea to the next, trying to find a combo that will hold the movie together. No luck. Mick LaSalle gave it Theres no dramatic urgency, no distinct point of view, no question of plot to keep an audience interested. All Safe Men has is the charm of the actors and the occasional friskiness of the writing. Thats almost enough to keep the picture alive, minute by minute. Alive is not the same as thriving, but its better than dead.The vast majority of directtovideo films are not very good, lacking not only star power and budget, but ideas and imagination. Every once in a while, though, a movie is denied a proper theatrical release not because its bad, but because it just isnt the sort of film for which a studio is willing to risk a multimilliondollar advertising budget. Safe Men is one of these movies, a modest but engaging crime comedy. ........

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