[7 MINUTES opens
in Cleveland on Friday June 26th exclusively at the Capitol Theatre.]
Review by Bob Ignizio
Redbox, Netflix, and the shelves of what video stores still remain
in this world boast no shortage of low budget thrillers and crime films. And as
long as one goes in with low expectations, such works can be reasonably
entertaining time killers, good for a weekend get together with a few friends
and the intoxicant of your choice. Occasionally you’ll even stumble across a sleeper
that deserved better than straight to video obscurity. But instead of one of
those rare gems getting a theatrical release, for some reason that honor has
been bestowed upon 7 MINUTES.
7 MINUTES
concerns a group of amateur drug dealers who dump their stock out of paranoia when
it looks as if the cops are on to them. This of course does not sit well with
their supplier, who gives them two days to come up with the money. The obvious
answer, of course, is to pull a robbery.
It should be an easy in-and-out job that, as the title suggests, should
take a mere 7 minutes. Of course everything that can go wrong does, and the
simple heist turns into a bloodbath.
