I have been a member of the Golden Raspberry Awards voting panel for the last four years, there have been many times I have seen the films that are later nominated, but most of the time I find them following the nominations before I start voting, and this is one of those films. Basically, at the Four Horse Casino, investigative reporter Susan (Vanessa Angel) meets with its owner, crime boss Alana Hart (Razzie winning Megan Fox - she also won Worst Supporting Actress for Expend4bles the same year). Alana is questioned about "Bakwas", a killer who is apparently in her employ. She offers the reporter to sign a $2 million non-disclosure agreement, which she refuses, so Alana kills her. Johnny (Avan Jogia) and Clyde (Ajani Russell) are serial killers on an indiscriminate crime and killing spree, and a montage of their crimes is seen. Stopping at a gas station for fuel, Johnny takes exception to the stuttering attendant Jerry (Paul Mecurio) wishing him a safe trip to Rhode Island. Johnny psychologically tortures him before shooting him and stealing a handful of cash from the register and a candy bar. There is a news report that Johnny and Clyde have returned to Rhode Island, which overweight, alcoholic former sheriff Randall Lock (Armen Garo) watches; he wants revenge for the death of his daughter Elizabeth (Katherine Schaber) who was tortured and killed by the duo. Lock calls bail bondsman One Time (Sean Ringgold) to help him hunt down and kill them. Johnny and Clyde next hit an armoured vehicle bound for Hart's casino, killing most of the guards inside, but it turns out only to be a day drop. They leave one guard alive who offers them information about a secret hold filled with millions of dollars hidden by Alana. The guard is tortured and draws a map to the cash room and details its security. Lock and One Time have tracked the duo to a motel, but they manage to escape using the guard as a human shield to their gunfire. There is also an intervention from maniacal killer Zhang (Razzie nominated Bai Ling, also producing) who makes an indiscriminate attack. Knowing they will need help to rob the casino, Johnny reunites and assembles a team with his equally murderous foster-care brothers. They are suicidal thrill-seeker Butcher (Nick Principe), insane arsonist Baker (Charles W Harris III), and paranoid conspiracy theorist Candlestick (Robert LaSardo). Alana spends much of her time entertaining herself with her bondage-wearing male and female slaves and companions Honey (Brett Azar) and Pot (Sydney Jenkins) whom she forces to partake in dangerous games. She also bids on highly valuable antiques; when she loses an auction, she goes to the home of the winning Wealthy Tycoon (Claudio Orefice), claiming the object for herself. The casino's head of security Guy (Tyson Ritter) constantly updates Alana about all meddling with her business, and she is made aware of the crimes of Johnny and Clyde who are heading in her direction. While they form a plan, Candlestick warns the team of a satanic cult of the demon Bakwas, who performed a mass suicide at the site where the cash room was built. Guy informs Alana of the robbery of the armoured vehicle and suspects the serial killers, and Lock meets with her knowing about the secret cash room, believing they will hit it. This provokes Alana to meet with The Elder (Fred Sullivan), the cult leader, who hands her the mystical stone to control Bakwas (Nick Principe) and force him to guard her casino. To maintain the secret of the stone, Alana then kills the Elder. Before the heist, Johnny's crew takes an excessive number of illegal drugs. After killing the guards patrolling the perimeter of the facility, Baker sets up an explosive device to open the door. However, Baker accidentally kills himself after using a short fuse. The crew enter the building and are quickly ambushed by Lock and One Time, soon followed by Zhang behind them. This Mexican standoff is interrupted by Alana on a television screen announcing that the building has been locked and everyone will be dead by sunrise. One Time is killed when Bakwas appears. Johnny's crew goes down to the basement cash room, killing several guards on the way. They are trapped by an elite team led by Guy who traps them, but the mercenaries are killed by Bakwas. Guy realises that he has been betrayed as Alana is eliminating all witnesses. Guy gives his team permission to abandon their posts. It turns out that Alana already moved all the money and is preparing to leave town and reunite with her father. After Candlestick and Butcher are killed, Johnny and Clyde try to escape with a bag of money, unaware that it is counterfeit. Zhang, on orders from Alana's father, gets them out of the building. But Lock again ambushes them, killing Zhang and beating Johnny. When Clyde holds Lock at gunpoint, Lock reveals that Johnny killed her father (Daryl Marsh) and never told her. Clyde shoots Lock and hits Johnny with her gun, but calls his actions romantic because her father was abusive. Bakwas confronts them but the demon cannot leave the site. Instead, the creature kills Johnny and Clyde, impaling them with thrown machetes. Lock survived the shooting because he is wearing a bulletproof vest, he is gleeful seeing his daughter's killers dead before he is killed by Bakwas. Guy is the only survivor of the chaos and confronts Alana at gunpoint, demanding the stone. She gives it to him and, although she believes that she still controls Bakwas, the demon rips out her beating heart. Guy offers to treat the demon with "respect and dignity", but it kills him and places the stone in its body. Also starring Michael Zuccola as Cliff, and Chris Whitcomb as Mike. Fox as the easily agitated and scantily dressed ruthless mobster looks great but is amusingly cheesy, Jogia and Russell are unconvincing as the madly in love criminals, and the supporting cast are equally terrible. There are many things that make this an awful watch, the bad acting, the mediocre Bonnie and Clyde/Natural Born Killers inspired script, the predictable dialogue, failed attempts of humour, the silly heist and the ridiculous fantasy plot, it is just a mess, a rubbish crime horror. Pretty poor!
Review of Johnny & Clyde
