There seems to be really little point to this movie. To me it is a movie that Esteves put together just for a little bit of fun. He plays alongside Charlie Sheen who is his real life brother and this seems to work well. They are buddies and living life just for the pleasure of it. In fact, James (Esteves) and Carl (Sheen) have been life long buddies: they went to school together, they surf together, and they work together. The name of the town that the film is set in, Las Palayas, sounds to me like some place where people go and have fun. Serious this movie is not, and there are so many holes that a serious movie would fall down, while this movie manages to stand on its own.
The plot is simple though the story becomes really complicated. In real life, everybody would be locked up in gaol for kidnapping, assault on a law enforcement officer, theft of a police car, hindrance of police, stalking, and second degree murder. As I said, this movie is not serious. Here the cops are stupid and everybody hates them, and they only exist to make the life of the main characters a nightmare. Somehow, the main characters also seem to be able to work a very demanding job yet also have enough time to surf and stay up late only to wake up at five in the morning.
There is a plot though it doesn't start up until a fair way into the movie. Esteves spends a lot of time just following James and Carl around on their daily routine, and it is only after this that he begins to move the plot along. Basically somebody is dumping toxic waste off shore and a mayoral candidate is being paid to allow this to happen. The candidate decides that what he is doing is wrong and pulls out, but not before getting a recording of the conversation to incriminate the bad guy. The candidate is then killed and dumped in a garbage can which James and Carl find. This wouldn't be a problem except Carl shot the candidate with an air rifle the night before and did not realise that he was murdered.
This rather relaxed movie raises the idea of environmental protection, though this seems really ironic as the main characters are garbo's who dump huge amounts of garbage in landfill. They are stopping this one man from dumping toxic waste only to do it themselves. Still, this movie doesn't go beyond a final embarrassment of the bad guy, and thus any repercussions do not exist.
The plot is simple though the story becomes really complicated. In real life, everybody would be locked up in gaol for kidnapping, assault on a law enforcement officer, theft of a police car, hindrance of police, stalking, and second degree murder. As I said, this movie is not serious. Here the cops are stupid and everybody hates them, and they only exist to make the life of the main characters a nightmare. Somehow, the main characters also seem to be able to work a very demanding job yet also have enough time to surf and stay up late only to wake up at five in the morning.
There is a plot though it doesn't start up until a fair way into the movie. Esteves spends a lot of time just following James and Carl around on their daily routine, and it is only after this that he begins to move the plot along. Basically somebody is dumping toxic waste off shore and a mayoral candidate is being paid to allow this to happen. The candidate decides that what he is doing is wrong and pulls out, but not before getting a recording of the conversation to incriminate the bad guy. The candidate is then killed and dumped in a garbage can which James and Carl find. This wouldn't be a problem except Carl shot the candidate with an air rifle the night before and did not realise that he was murdered.
This rather relaxed movie raises the idea of environmental protection, though this seems really ironic as the main characters are garbo's who dump huge amounts of garbage in landfill. They are stopping this one man from dumping toxic waste only to do it themselves. Still, this movie doesn't go beyond a final embarrassment of the bad guy, and thus any repercussions do not exist.