Chris Haskell There were a couple of minor things that bothered me during the denouement of this crime/heist thriller, but it played out well and logically. There were good performances from the actors and the music wasn't offensively bad. I would say overall this was a decent movie, but there was an overarching sentiment throughout that I just could not get past as a viewer. It just felt like the screenwriter/director/creative type in charge had a difficult time with the script. A lot of the reveals felt forced, Val Kilmer's bit was funny but a couple scenes with him were completely unnecessary, and it I was never able to fully commit to this story. I couldn't sympathize with the characters or the drama is it began to unfold. Rating: 16/40

charlytully Perhaps any movie featuring diamonds should say "Thanks, Elizabeth Taylor" in its closing credits acknowledgments. (In this mildly involving hotel hold-up yarn, Val Kilmer also phones in one of his dippiest performances ever, as Maz the OCD stolen jewels cutter.) Maybe such films also should say "Thanks, Marilyn Monroe." (Kilmer's character is one of the few from the old gang who survive till the end of this story.) Maybe the 2:22 filmmakers got all their prop jewelry from the late night infomercials during which Liz used to shill copies of all those make-up jewels Richard Burton had to substitute for make-up sex when he was too drunk to get it up. (Most of the plot developments of 2:22 have a strong "been-there, done-that" feel, as if the producers gave the screenwriters a file folder containing their favorite dozen heist flick scenes, and told them "pick any six.") The best efforts of the estate lawyers behind the legends of Liz and Marilyn do not change the fact that the diamond cartel has butchered thousands of people, destroyed millions of lives, and stockpiled about 3,457 diamonds of .5 carats or more for every man, woman, and child alive on Earth today--all starting because the price of these relatively common whitened chunks of coal had dropped to 10 cents per carat! (Now, THAT story would make a GREAT feature film, but the South Africans will exterminate Hollywood sooner than see it released.)

ryderbillie This is really one cool movie, granted I found it a little slow at the beginning but I quickly got drawn into the characters and their lives, it's refreshing to watch a film today that isn't full of MTV quick cuts and jerky camera work. I thought the story was really well written with lots of unexpected twists & turns coupled with a few surprises that I didn't see coming.I really liked the music and the director Phillip Guzman did a great job overall. Love Val Kilmer. I totally loved the feel & texture of this movie, the cold & the snow really added to the atmosphere. Cool stuff.

torrentstorm By all the powers invested in me, could it be I am too dense to understand this movie? Could it be the noir theme that clouded my vision and imagination so that at 2:22, I saw but did not see? Could it be the continuous cold weather and snow of the movie, which reminded me of those dreary, lethargic days I spent in Russia years ago, opaqued my fiery spirit and made me slow to understand? Could it be the story was written in such a way that I kept leaping from one screen to the next looking for the missing links to put it all together? I understood, when beginning to watch the film, that this was a story about a heist gone bad, in fact, incomprehensibly wrong. But why? I couldn't tell; reasons were hard to grasp. For example, the story wishes to tell me that due to a couple of very small coincidences all hell broke loose, things that could easily have been even overlooked. Come on, now, unless the characters were possessed by some supernatural instinct, I do not see how they could have pieced things so quickly and accurately?Why exactly do we point at 2:22, when the time in question had little to do with the main story? The four main characters were supposed to be good thieves, going after highly valued jewelry and such. How exactly did they happen to know that The Grange Hotel would have all its safety deposit boxes loaded with goods on the night of New Year's Eve? I looked and looked at 2:22, but still at 2:23, SAW NOTHING! The grunge/new age music was good, yes, it lent an eerie effect to the movie, especially due to its dark nature. But then, why did we have Clair DeLune playing in the background during almost half the film? It became annoying after a while.The acting was one of the weakest points. None of the characters stood out, not even Val Kilmer in his role as the fence, which was pretty lame, I must add, considering Kilmer has played some major roles in the past. Most of the time I felt the people were waiting to be cued in so they could say their lines, because that's all they did - just say the lines. I remember at one point saying: "what is happening here? what's he doing? I'm lost". This looks like someone trying to put Max Payne together with The Usual Suspects. Honestly, Gabriel Bryne did nothing here, except look older, fatter, and tired.So, I call it 2:22 minus ½ (if there is such a time), because it was neither funny, nor logical, nor thrilling, nor dramatic, nor ... Aww, heck, you watch it if you want, and then tell me if I missed something at 2:22. For the life of me, I'm still looking but cannot see it.