However when Pike completes the contract he falls for Jordan, a situation that. Pike takes a job from Mahew to help out a family friend, the beautiful Jordan. He kills on behalf of lawyer Peter Mahew who is part of a committee of lawyers who hand out their own version of justice. (Coburn is good in his handful of scenes too, but unfortunately he's not really given much to do beyond look concerned and issue some ominous warnings about Fahey getting too close) Again its not a terrible movie, but its just too slowly paced for its own good. Charlie Pike is an ex-Government agent turned contract killer. (Hmmm an assassin with his own moral code.where have i seen that before?) That said, its not terrible, if you stumble across it as I did, its worth a look if only for Fahey's very solid performance. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2. Instead we get a lot of Fahey grimacing over him violating his own code. Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. A movie like this, i'm not asking for it to be funny but a couple of wry tossed off one liners here or there would've been very effective. A short film is any motion picture The increasingly rare industry term short. Fahey is good here actually.the story's ok enough, its got all the classic ingredients of a solid film noir-its got a potential femme fatale, its got a decent enough boss character played by a great veteran actor (in this case James Coburn), its got a hero who is talked into murdering a guy who's giving a woman a lot of trouble.I just 100% described "Double Indemnity" which this movie is nowhere near the quality of.but for once its not the screenplay's fault so much as it is the pacing of the is sloooow moving from plot point to plot point. In this cool flick she hires Jeff Fahey, who works for an organization run by James Coburn, to find the killer of her husband. Short FilmsThe Bench is a 2014 Canadian psychological dramatic short film.
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