Had this blood-soaked exercise in mayhem been written and directed by anyone other than Christopher McQuarrie, who wowed audiences with his script for that barrel of red herrings, THE USUAL SUSPECTS, it would have probably gone straight to video. Benecio Del Toro and
Ryan Phillippe star as a pair of hard-luck crooks who call themselves Longbaugh and Parker (the real names of legendary outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). While waiting to make some quick cash donating sperm at a Southwestern fertility clinic, they overhear a conversation involving a
very rich couple, a surrogate mother and a doctor's appointment for sometime next week. A light flickers on: W...
Released:
2000
Rated:
R
Length:
119 mins