Film Review – Cash Out

The credited director on “Cash Out” is someone named “Ives.” This person has no previous credits and information about the helmer isn’t available. It’s certainly not impossible for someone to come out of nowhere to make a movie, and perhaps Ives is a lucky newcomer to the business, handed a feature with a known star (John Travolta) to manage. News reports suggest someone else made the picture, with a few stories mentioning Randall Emmett as the man behind the camera, with the infamous producer of crummy VOD thrillers returning to, well, generate another crummy thriller. The real creative force behind “Cash Out” is a mystery for now (Emmett’s mother does appear in the film), but the reality here is the general nothingness of the endeavor, which doesn’t have any action, sharp dialogue, or dense plotting. Instead, there’s argumentative behavior in a bank for 80 minutes, with screenwriters Dipo Oseni and Doug Richardson out to manufacture a puzzle of crime and punishment that’s not worth solving. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com