Another
political thriller, this time more comedic in tone
as Sam (Michael Mizrahi), a man who has his
fingers in many pies, overhears a conversation at
his job at the telephone exchange about a secret
tape that could be used to blackmail a politician
who is deciding who is getting the tender to build
the second cross harbour tunnel. The man who made
the call is arrested before he can say what he has
and where it is but Sam goes looking it and when
he can't find the tape, he digs deeper and finds
that it involves a shonky businessman (Roy
Billing). Also a waitress at another of his jobs,
Anna (Lucy Sheehan) is embroiled inadvertedly in
the intrigue thanks to her job moonlighting as a
dominatrix. Sam, along with his buddy Curtis (John
Watson) dig deeper with Sam going above and beyond
to find out what's going on, getting himself into
more trouble by the minute and dragging his
friends with him. Not a bad little movie, Sam gets
himself so deep into the intrigue that I didn't
stop to ask why he was bothering at all as he
doesn't seem to be getting anything out of it.
There's some pretty decent foot chase scenes
including one that ends in a shark tank. It's all
a bit silly particularly for what's at stake but
it's good, cheeky fun that you don't usually get
in a political thriller.
Just one nude scene in the
movie from Louise Graham who shows her breasts
after sex with Sam is aborted because he thinks
she's more interested in her music than him.
There's also a brief sex scene featuring Lucy
Sheehan but you don't see much. The dominatrix
scenes featuring Lucy are also fairly weird and
involve her throwing tomatoes at a bloke. Again, I
got the movie from NZ OnScreen, which is also free
to watch and just like Should I Be Good? is about
as good as quality as we will probably see.