Rob Schneider is the ‘mobster’s attorney’ in the Rob Schneider criminal thriller bursting with stereotypes. The actor has appeared in films like Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. The writer and director Rick Bieber manages to build the film in a similar fashion like that of Elmore the author. Consider it a lesser goodfellas with the patriot act. This is about baby kidnappers and insurance fraud.
The cast of Dead Wrong also includes cast members of Katrina Bowden and Cress Williams who have starred in one series form or the other 30 Rock and Black Lightning respectively. Schneider plays a good number of interesting roles in the film but this is in no way a central part. Chet Hanks had a great role and character as the gangster who was quite aggressive. Since early this decade before causing havoc in the acting world, Chet the son of Tom Hanks is known to shoot viral of him rapping, ” White Boy Summer” which went sort of viral.
Both Barbara, played by Katrina Bowden, and her husband Billy as played by Derek Smith are shown as having a happy marriage but reality shows Mandy being married to a father who is a student and his psychopath mind where he is quite calm on the outside . Billy has now ventured into a different business together with Jacko his Childhood best friend who happens to be part of the local mafia. He has also been out with Barbara’s sister(Chelsea Debo). Barbara’s one desire is to have a child but well Billy seems absolutely satisfied being child-less.
Rob Schneider taking up the role of Ethan Boggs, a lawyer had tough timing dealing with a poker shortage owing to gambling debts to the mafia and therefore had to do illegal adoptions for some money. There is a great business opportunity in the future where Billy plans on kidnapping a newborn baby and selling the baby which is sure to bring him a ton of cash. Boggs finds himself involved in this scheme to impress his boss and pacify mafia bosses who are usually tough to handle.
Despite of being advertised as the adaption of an English novel, ‘Dead Wrong’ does not lose any of its shine, it has good and sloppy actors, good characters and all waked up at once. The ending of this movie remained, however, resounding and quite unexpected. The second half of the movie turned out to be the real action, where plenty of unexpected reverses in fate appeared to everyone. The film presented quite interesting events and pretty nice suited ones for the film there is even little commentary on the people mourning their created persons crying out there for others and making them quite wealthy.
Humor comes mostly from Rob Schneider but the thriller does follow the norm of mafia films. There are bloodthirsty villains, beautiful women and a bit of cheese as a topping. Best known for his SNL days and some Hollywood films, Schneider behaves quite well in this more serious role.
Dead Wrong is a bland, sometimes funny, gangster mafia story featuring a decent cast of actors. What’s hilarious is how the pathetic debutant Chet Hanks comes up the best in the film while overshadowing other Hollywood veterans by his sincerity as a violent mobster who shows extreme loyalty. Perhaps Chet’s parents are both successful Hollywood actors and he unconsciously learned a lot from them. Or perhaps that’s what genetics can offer.
As expected of a movie released in 2024, the 1080p video includes features including pixels which are doted in every ICC color profile to achieve a superb image. It is quite evident that the protagonist is at the peak of perfect resolution. Essentially, there are no differences in quality that can be said between the two cuts of a movie when one is talking about picture quality. The only aspect that seems to be on the wack side in Dead Wrong are some purportedly bad effects that were cheap AF. In places where the audience is shown one character tortured and you see closure of fake blood, there is no way that such nonsense can be produced anywhere else but an indie, and maybe Trauma would be too proud to produce it.
The exteriors tend to be overtly lit, with high contrast and dark blacks. The interior parts were however presentable as though the cameras were fixed within a studio which was clean and neat. The filmmakers don’t take the risk to go for the atmosphere cinematography and instead, go for the cheapest option, which is every digitized detail possible.
The vocal performance makes it appear as though there isn’t much significance within the songs. The whole theme is more inclined towards instrument augmentation and high fidelity recording with appropriate dynamics.
Once again, the BD is published by Mill Creek and this time the special features are surprisingly minimal. All we are provided as an added feature is the so-called “director’s cut” which is barley about Dead Wrong. This is a film that some viewers will probably want to see. It is only a couple of minutes less than the main feature in length and the majority of the movie is only short cutaway shots over the entire film. I would advise the audience to watch the theatrical cut rather than the director’s cut.
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