The Big Bang (2011)
Average Rating: 2.9/10
Reviews Counted: 15
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 13
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Average Rating: 3.1/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 9
No consensus yet.
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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
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Cast
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Antonio Banderas
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Sienna Guillory
Julie Kestral/Lexie Per... -
James Van Der Beek
Adam Nova -
Snoop Dogg
Puss -
Autumn Reeser
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Sam Elliott
Simon Kestral -
Jimmi Simpson
Niels Geck -
Thomas Kretschmann
Frizer -
William Fichtner
Poley -
Robert Maillet
Anton "The Pro" Protopo... -
Delroy Lindo
Skeres -
Bill Duke
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Rebecca Mader
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Robert Ernie Lee
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Rachel Handler
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Sean Cook
Bartender -
Tracy Culp
Female Porn Star -
Khanh Doan
Mail Carrier -
Anthony Holmes
Jazz Band Member -
Keith MacGeagh
Sikh -
Lindel Reason
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Carlos Verde, Jr.
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Al Martinez
Janitor -
Chandra Bailey
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Janelle Hoffmeister
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Kristi Klicker
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Katrina McKinley
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Adrienne Thommes
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Bill Marlowe
Skinny Faddeey -
Devin Barber
Russian Orthodox Priest -
William Baker
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Rick Ehrenstrasser
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Robert Martin
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Donald Holmes
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Sandra Kidd
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Michael Mossuto
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Florence Moyle
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Jim Short
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Sandra Sicilia
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John Pritchard
Male Porn Star -
Shane Rice
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Klaus Dieter Bange
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Vance Auroro
Boom Operator -
Reece Pearson
Clapper Guy -
Jason Penrod
Man in White Robe -
Tye Scott
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Nancy Gasper
Nurse -
Brent Schneider
Hospital Intern -
Courtney Yarber
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Laura Van Der Lind
Kepler's Waitress -
Lance Ortega
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Laynee Busse
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Mike Molan
Warden -
Brad Hollibaugh
Prison Guard -
Balkar Singh
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Darbara Singh
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Amandeep Kaur
Hindu Woman
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All Critics (15) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (13)
Where else can you see a movie where a sexy waitress says, "Reality is just a wave function"?
Top CriticFor a noir, the film is way too talky and convoluted, yet for a physics lesson, it's trash.
Is Antonio Banderas's career really such a big bust? On the one hand, it's a shame to see a talented guy slumming in this budget-bin thriller. On the other, it'd be entirely unwatchable without him.
Even with Antonio Banderas leading a cast of familiar faces, the movie never rises above a style-over-substance exercise.
I have a mental picture of the film's creators, stoned out of their minds on who knows what, cackling crazily as they outline a movie that would have more appropriately been titled "The Big Goof."
The Big Bang is a borderline unintelligible, scattershot attempt at Lynchian neo-noir that takes intellectual and aesthetic risks it has no reasonable hope of pulling off.
Film noir for physics geeks, The Big Bang ... is a clever, if relentlessly dramatic (despite stabs at levity), existential detective story.
he script ultimately wastes the talents of actors
A colossally strange film noir misfire, The Big Bang tries to inject the soupy moodiness of the noir genre with a surfeit of cool and edgy thrills, but, ironically, it's actually just a big snooze.
Doesn't always supply the smoothest ride of revelations and comeuppance, spending more time sorting out its homework than dealing with the sweet slings of sleaze and suspense that often define the genre.
A low-rent neo-noir propped up by descriptions of, rather than depictions of, sexual kink and an odd interest in quantum physics.
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