ONE FALSE MOVE MOVIE
It says much about the current state of American cinema that a movie as good as One False Move almost didn’t get released. Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals - Fantasia (Cynda Williams), Ray Malcolm (Billy Bob. Directed by Carl Franklin, a former actor who was a semiregular on The A-Team, this shrewdly entertaining genre picture was financed independently and is now enjoying a city-by-city release - thanks, in large part, to critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, whose early support helped rescue it from the jaws of video oblivion. Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals - Fantasia (Cynda Williams), Ray Malcolm (Billy Bob Thornton) and Pluto (Michael. Like POISON IVY ’s Katt Shea, director Carl Franklin was an actor turned director of Roger Corman productions (NOWHERE TO RUN, EYE OF THE EAGLE 2: INSIDE THE ENEMY, FULL FATHOM FIVE). The irony is that One False Move wasn’t made within the commercial film industry. One False Move ONE FALSE MOVE was the Summer of ’92’s little crime movie that could.
One False Move, a sardonic and explosive crooks-on-the-lam saga in the tradition of Bonnie and Clyde, has the meat-and-potatoes virtues - wit, atmosphere, and suspense violence that shocks as well as thrills a narrative that glides along the knife edge of its characters’ passions - that have just about disappeared from our movie screens during this summer of skittery, brightly packaged blockbusters.
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