Burnt Money (2001)
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Reviews Counted: 29 Fresh: 22 Rotten:7 Average Rating: 6.5/10
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Burnt Money tells a stylish and steamy story about criminals on the lam.
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Theatrical Release: Oct 19, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: When two gay thugs Angel (Eduardo Noriega) and El Nene (Leonardo Sbaraglia) join a plan to hold up an armored truck with a group of seasoned gangsters, their love and loyalty to each other is tested. Angel is wounded by police gunfire during the robbery, forcing El Nene to kill them all in a fit of... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Eduardo Noriega, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Pablo Echarri, Leticia Bredice, Marcelo Figueras
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02/24/04
O ritmo irregular e as gráficas cenas entre os dois protagonistas incomodam um pouco, mas o filme tem seus momentos interessantes.
07/25/03
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10/21/02
Those who hang in for the long haul are rewarded with a sexy, moving love story.
09/30/02
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Its highlight comes in a cunning series of cuts that fade between fellatio performed at gunpoint with genuflection at the foot of a crucifix.
04/18/02
Directed with enough (borrowed) style by Marcelo Pineyro that we barely notice its lack of original ideas.
03/15/02
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Piñeyro's solution for every predictable plot advancement and character relationship is a lot of frantic arm-waving, as though to insist, 'But these gangsters are gay!'
03/02/02
With flavorful acting, direction and cinematography, Burnt Money touches on emotions universal to any relationship.
02/28/02
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Well worth seeing if you have even the slightest interest in guns and sex and the interplay between the two (and who doesn't?).
02/10/02
The twins -- ragged, cool-eyed and inseparable -- are this movie's swinging stopwatch, mesmerizing the viewer with the fierce back-and-forth of their romance.
12/21/01
A guilty pleasure teeming with enough straight and gay sex, nudity, sweat and violence to please any cult film enthusiast.
12/20/01
[Piñeyro] carefully builds unreleased sexual tensions, heat, thickness and boredom to make the movie's otherwise slow-moving centerpiece pulsate.
12/14/01
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12/02/01
Piñeyro ... meticulously keeps pumping the tension until it's no longer a question of what's going to happen, but when.
11/30/01
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