Film Review – Riff Raff

Writer/director Dito Montiel has enjoyed a very strange career. He’s never had a hit, yet he’s managed to make eight films, somehow convincing producers to keep gambling on his artistic vision, which typically covers rough characters involved in troubling business. “Riff Raff” is his ninth endeavor, and it’s mostly more of the same from Montiel, who works to keep his budget low as most of the story is explored in a single location. And there are periodic bursts of violence to help rough up the writing’s assortment of difficult people placed in situations of confrontation. Montiel doesn’t have much spin on his creative curveball, but there’s a better class of actors involved in “Riff Raff,” helping to elevate an otherwise droopy offering of crime cinema. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com