Snitch'd |  | Actors: Chad Bendele, Leandro Cano, James Evans, Vera Jimenez, Eva Longoria
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 187765
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 86 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 024543125334
EAN: 0024543125334
ASIN: B00020HAQK
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Release Date: June 1, 2004
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 9
 Oh dear, oh dear July 7, 2005
Jason (Christchurch, New Zealand)
I hope for James Cahill's sake the guy on the cover never watches the movie. He doesn't look like the guy you would want to take the piss out of.
Like the old saying never read a book by it's cover cause you will be burned, this is especially true in this case.
I don't need to break into detail because it's not worth the keystrokes, I for one will be demanding my 5 bucks back.
Inept movie still entertaining as a curiosity March 15, 2005
Thomas M. Sipos (Santa Monica, CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
First, I'd like to correct one of the other reviewers, who said that SNITCH'D is about a "Latino cop" who goes undercover as a high school student.
Actually, the cop (played by writer/director James Cahill) looks Asian but is supposed to be white. He's certainly not supposed to be Latino. We know this because one of the students calls him a Spanish name, and Cahill's character has to ask a fellow student what he was called. "White boy," she replies.
Also, I don't think the movie is set in East L.A. The credits say it was shot in Santa Ana, a heavily Latino city in the middle of Orange County, which is just south of Los Angeles County.
Yes, the movie is inept and unrealistic. Many of the actors playing these high school students look well into their twenties. The guns look like toys. Sound like it too. When they're dropped or tossed aside, you can hear the hollow plastic clatter on the floor.
Yet this movie is entertaining, in a weirdly "what were they thinking," endearing sort of way. Star-writer-director Cahill smirks his way through much of the film, like he's trying to play a suave James Bond type. You look at him and think, this inept, non-charismatic Asian-playing-a-white-guy actually imagines he's the next Rambo/tough guy/action hero. Especially funny is his pursed lips and staring eyes when he sneaks around the house with his gun in "action hero" fashion. Cahill is morbidly funny!
And yes, his "martial arts" is as inept as the film's toy guns. He grabs a guy's head and repeatedly "slams" it against a desk in what's supposed to be a quick "jack-hammer" fashion ... only it's slow, and the victim's head clearly isn't making contact with the table. The victim seems to just go along with having his head banged against the desk, because director Cahill told him to. Also funny is when Cahill uses martial arts to defeat some eight gun-totting ganstas, partly with the aid of ping-pong paddles.
One "actress," when she's acting "sad" and telling Cahill about her recently deceased friend, seems to be actually smiling.
This film is probably being seen only because its female lead, Eva Longoria, has become famous on DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, although she isn't much better in this film than the rest of the cast. Some, but not much. Then again, it must have been hard for the twentysomething Longoria to play a high school student swept off her feet by Cahill, or mouth his script's cliche-ridden relationship dialogue.
Their "flirting" in the library is another very funny moment! They're supposed to be teenagers, yet their relationship dialogue sounds written for adults, who in turn got their lines from bad romantic comedies.
I said this film is endearing. I have a soft spot for amateurs who buy a camcorder and think they can make a Hollywood style feature. Although I think this was shot on super-8 or 16mm film. That's because you can hear a camera whirring in some of the shots. And there's a soft, shot-on-film-then-blown-up look.
So although this film is inept enough to merit only one star, I'm giving it another one for unintentional humor, Longoria eye candy, and the effort of getting it finished.
All bad reviews are correct July 23, 2004
Horrib Lee Swollen (Port Neches, TX)
This movie is terrible. The main character seems really gay, and since he is playing a straight guy he has no talent whatsoever. The martial arts in this movie are sloppy, weak, and totally unrealistic. They use toy guns. Probably the cheapest, most poorly made movie I've ever seen. They put more effort into the cover than anything else. If you're interested in cheap stupid movies, this one is for you.
Totally unrealistic and annoying July 23, 2004
Horrib Lee Swollen (Port Neches, TX)
The main character came across as gay to me too. This movie is in no way realistic. The other reviewer is right about everything. It's a really cheap movie made by amateurs using plastic toy guns, the actors jerk the guns to make them look like they have a kick. The "martial arts" in the movie are weak and sloppy, there's no way that crap would actually work in real life. I don't even know why I bothered to watch the whole thing, I guess I just found the stupidity amusing. The cover makes it look like it would be a cool movie, unfortunately that's the only thing they put much effort into. I rented it from Block Buster too, they need to burn it. This movie looks like some kind of a high school project or something, like they had to make a movie to pass drama class.
 Awsome!! March 20, 2004
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
He he. This movie rocks! When the guns go off, well... they don't. They didnt use blanks, they just move the weapon then dub something in. Will be a cult classic. Tongue firmly in cheek.
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