Good, Bad & Ugly Review: 23 Minutes To Sunrise


23minutes
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 5% (Audience)
Directed By: Louis Leterrier
Written By: Ed Solomon, Boaz Yakin and Edward Ricourt
Starring: Eric Roberts, Nia Peeples, Bob Zany and Dingani Beza
Studio: Zingraff Motion Pictures

Synopsis: They say the darkest hour is just before dawn, and at the Sunrise diner it’s very late indeed. Four couples find themselves at an out-of-the-way 24-hour diner, but they are not all that they seem. (Source)

The Good:
I only bothered to watch this film because it starred two of my personal favorite C to D list actors in Eric Roberts and Nia Peeples and both actors performed well above and beyond what this film deserved.
Roberts was is usual quirky cool self as what I assume was supposed to be Death while Peeples conveyed more in her character’s wardrobe and physicality than I am sure the script asked of her.

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The Bad:
Aside from Roberts and Peeples the acting in this movie was junior high theater levels of mediocre.

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The Ugly
I get that this was a low budget affair but this movie looked like it cost less to make than a backyard wrestling video.

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Final Verdict: A cheap looking, mostly badly acted, muddily written bit of B-movie fluff that strives for a seriousness that no one involved seemed capable of achieving aside from Eric Roberts and Nia Peeples.

Grade: D-

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