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Flipping

1997, Movie, R, 102 mins

Flipping: Review

FLIPPING
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This stylish, attenuated, lowlife thriller is another wrong lesson learned from MEAN STREETS. Four buddies work for local crime boss Leo Richards (Keith David): Volatile Shotsie (Gene Mitchell), decent guy Hooker (Shant Bejanian), his wussy cousin Dennis (Paul Klar) and pretty, stone killer Mike (David Amos). Tired of Leo's bullying, they concoct a plan to kill both Leo and his chief rival, then take over the whole neighborhood. Is there anyone watching who imagines it's going to go off as planned? The movie's claim to originality is that bad boy Mike is sleeping with unstable Det. Billy White (David Proval, MEAN STREETS' Tony), and the measure of its failure is that at the end of two hours, their relationship is as unclear as it was at the outset. Are they star-crossed lovers on opposite sides of the law? Is Mike a sociopath who's using Billy, or is Billy a middle-aged closet case whose obsession with Mike is a sign of his own self-loathing? If FLIPPING actually dealt with the ways Billy and Mike are caught between the conflicting codes of gay sexuality and macho street life, it might be genuinely interesting. But it doesn't. And while writer, director, coproducer and costar Mitchell has a good eye, almost 25 years after MEAN STREETS, it's not enough to simply open a door onto the macho posturing and casual brutality of a quartet of street thugs and expect people to watch. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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