When Lance (Daniel-Paul Sampson) started dating Maria (Shelby Handley), he had no idea that she was the wife of a big crime kingpin, the Boss (Daniel Christian Jones), and it wouldn't have made the least of differences, as he has seriously fallen in love with her, and she with him - after all, she wouldn't choose living with a poor sucker like Lance over the luxurious lifestyle the Boss offers her otherwise. But actually, Lance only finds out who Maria's ex is when he's kidnapped by the Boss's second-in-command Michael (Cole Munden) and two of his goons, Sal (Darius Rathe) and Phil (Sam Biskey), who then tie him to a chair waiting for the Boss to come and torture and kill Lance. Only, Lance is a far cry from the mild-mannered man he appears to be, and he plays mindgames with them until he manages to make a slip. And once he's gotten his hands on a gun, he's not one to be trifled with ...

Thing is, this is a story that has two sides, kidnapping Lance was never a pure capture-and-kill job for Lance, and even though his methods were crude, his intentions were very right and his heart was definitely in the right place ...

Above synopsis might not suggest as much, but For the Boss is a pretty hilarious movie. Sure, it reads like a gangster movie and is chock-full with genre tropes, and it's plenty violent in its scenes of action and torture, but it counterbalances these sequences with atypical (and pretty funny) dialogue and highly ironic heart-warming scenes, and the film works all the better for these anomalies as well as its non.linear storytelling that still never drops the ball. And a cast clearly in on the joke but playing it straight of coursel also helps making this a pretty great piece of genre entertainmeht.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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