‘Fast Charlie’ Review: Pierce Brosnan, Morena Baccarin And The Late James Caan In Seriocomic Action Film That Hits What It Shoots At
deadline.comRasty and nasty with a cherry on top, Fast Charlie is a down-home Southern gangster yarn with a staggering body count but a sweet taste awaiting the survivors at the end of the day.
This adaptation of Victor Gischler’s 2003 novel Gun Monkeys is an inelegant affair that gushes hot blood all over the place but leaves enough room for an appealingly credible May-December romance to grow in the midst of the constant mayhem.
This is James Caan’s final film and it’s one that genre fans should eat up but will do so more at home than in theaters. Whereas senior movie mafia and gangster characters through the decades have tended to be revered — if only for simply having survived for decades — it nonetheless seems that Charlie Swift (Pierce Brosnan) may not get the respect he deserves from the bad-guy wannabees who populate the bayou country of Louisiana.
Young hot-shot punks often think they’re better than anyone, but the fit, gray-haired Charlie knows the score much better than they do and some of the reckless show-offs don’t last very long.
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