thinker1691 Val Kilmer has chalked up an impressive resume. Some of his films have garnered many top awards and impressive accolades. Select a series of action or dramatic films and you'll find his name listed therein. Alright, he's appeared in a few schmaltzy movies too, but there are others which more than make up for them. Here is one case in Point. The film is called "Run for the Money" also known as " Hard Cash. " The lively story is of a recently paroled thief named Taylor (Christian Slater) who has promised his little girl he will not steal any more, but soon after is ensnared by a corrupt F.B.I. agent (Val Kilmer) who extorts Taylor to rob a Casino's earnings of $6 Million in return for his daughter's life. Having little choice, Taylor assembles a motley crew and sets out to rescue his daughter with the help of his combative and argumentative gang. A fine cast which includes Balthazar Getty, Daryl Hannah, Michael Rosas and Verne Troyer as Attila prove their worth in creating a surprising and exciting drama. The intricacy of the movie is the crossing and double crossing of plans which moves this film rapidly along. Kilmer is very interesting as the heavy, a role he so often avoids. Nevertheless, and despite the occasional cheesy segments, this could very well become a sleeping Classic for Kilmer and Slater. ****

ma-cortes The film concerns an ex-con named Taylor (Christian Slater) , after being released from jail but again he's going on bad deals . He has a daughter , a beautiful little girl , and a gorgeous girlfriend (Sara Downing). He hooks up with a group of delinquents (Daryl Hanna , Balthazar Getty , Booken Woodbine , Verne Troyer , among others) who swindle a mobster (William Forsythe) and scheming a spectacular as brilliant robbing but then become embroiled into unfortunate events . As they discover the cash is fake and it is marked. Later on , Taylor becomes involved a corrupt FBI agent (Val Kilmer) who kidnaps his daughter . After happening a series of plot twists until an explosive final .This thrilling movie is a tough , terrific adventure in grand larceny , containing run-of-the mill action , violence , car pursuits and numerous killings . This routine story about a drifter again enticed into crime is skillfully constructed , economically produced and competently acted , but displays some ridiculous and embarrassing moments here and there with ups and downs scenes . It's combined of matchless suspense , minimum characterization and thrill-load movie . Christian Slater is good , Val Kilmer as ambitious agent is cool although appears top-billing , he has limited screen time . Special mention to Verne Troyer in a sympathetic role . It's realized in low-budget , thus the car scenes are made in transparency and being produced by Millennium Films (Avi and Danny Lerner , Trevor Short , Boaz Davison) usual of short budget movies . The motion picture was professionally directed by Servian director Peter Antonijevic who previously made the more thoughtful and brooding ¨Savior¨ . Rating : Average but passable .

sarastro7 The majority of user comments on this movie, Hard Cash, claim that this is the Worst Movie Ever, and loads of people have rated it a "1". I swear I have no idea what the hell everybody seems to have against this perfectly good movie. They must have expected something completely different, which I frankly don't see how is possible. The DVD sleeve is pretty up front about everything.This is not some big-budget Hollywood action movie, and, for cripes sake, it isn't meant to be! It's a low-key drama with interesting characters, situations and humor. And good actors. And yeah, it's straight to video, or reminiscent of a TV movie. So what? It's possible to do good stories in that format (and on that budget), too.From the moment I started watching Hard Cash, I had fun. Not for a single moment anywhere in the movie did I stop being absolutely engaged in the story. I liked the characters and the dialog and the action. I had nothing against the car and boat chases; for a small budget I thought it all looked pretty damn good. The characters were well fleshed out, the story flowed smoothly, with every detail being important. Lots of fun.This is a movie I'd normally rate a 7 or a 7.5 out of 10, but just because everybody hates it I'll raise that to an 8.God, it burns my ass when people just crap all over a totally decent, entertaining, well-written movie with good characters and performances all-round. Why, I oughtta...!!!

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