Is this movie really just a quick payday for these actors? I mean...come on, is this for real? Has anyone ever heard of it before? Did it even play in the theatres? Can someone look that up? Or was it straight to DVD? I think I have it figured out....Spacey, LL, Timberlake, Morgan Freeman, Dylan McDermont, Piper Posey, John Heard, Cary Elwes...heck even Rachel Spector - all agreed to do a quick 'one-take' movie, where they barely have to try at acting, and then they put in their contract that they will force it to go directly to DVD and no one will promote it or ever see it. And then they all laugh their way to the bank, somehow. I guess that doesn't make any sense. I don't know, it just doesn't seem like they did this movie with passion or even took it seriously. Actually, it wasn't the worst, but it was pretty clunky.
When you look this up on IMDB, it comes up as 'Edison' only, not 'Edison Force'. Wonder why that is?
So the opening scene has LL Cool J with mustard spilled all over his face and shoulder all while shooting up a burglary, the blood in this scene looked like small packets of red exploding, and the bullets hitting the taxis looked like those fake grey stickers the people who are cool put on the back of their Aerostar (c) mini-vans. Flash forward a few scenes...and Morgan Freeman is dancing, for like a minute on screen. Flash forward again, about 40 minutes elapsed (you barely missed anything during this time)...and Dylan McDermont is dancing and talking about how he's got soul. The rest of the plot is about a reporter and his quest to publish the story of corrupt cops. There, now you don't need to see it.
Here's the IMDB breakdown on the cost and the non-USA profit. Unless I'm looking at this wrong, seems like a loss, eh?
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