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The Big Bang

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Action / Mystery / Thriller
USA, 2010, 101 min

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Late one night, Los Angeles private investigator Ned Cruz (Antonio Banderas) gets a visit from a recently paroled Russian boxer with an intriguing job offer: find Lexie, his missing girlfriend - and the 30-million dollar stash of diamonds she's hiding. As Detective Cruz sets out to find her, the clues send him into the city's seediest corners, from a Hollywood action star with a dirty little secret (James Van Der Beek), to an enterprising porn producer who takes a personal interest in his own work (Snoop Dog), and a kinky waitress with an unusual fetish for particle physics ( Autumn Reeser). Lexie probes to be as elusive as she is beautiful and Cruz becomes obsessed with finding her. With time running out, Cruz discovers the trail leads to reclusive billionaire (Sam Elliott), and his physicist (Jimmi Simpson), intent on recreating The Bing Bang underneath the New Mexico desert. Tailed by a trio of cops also looking to find the missing diamonds, and with the body count piling up, Cruz soon realizes that what appeared to be a standard missing person's case is anything but, and could quite possibly bring about the end of the world as we know it. (official distributor synopsis)

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English The Big Bang is a hallucinogenic thriller hybrid with the strong stench of a B-movie. And I don’t mean just the illumination as from a TV hustler film from the 1980s or awkward camera angles, but also the selection of certain actors and the portrayal of their characters. Had it not been for some of Antonio Banderas’ catchphrases and the frantic plot development in the last third, which arouses the audience’s interest in how it will all turn out, the result would have been truly tragic. To base such a cheap-looking film on sophisticated flashback narration of a story full of questions is hara-kiri in itself. ()