there be some movie so bad and that when you watch them on video or tv and you wonder and why do they bother with this . why do not they shelve it . that what i wonder when i catch this unoriginal and cliché fill movie on late night tv . the first hour of this movie ( include commercial ) be truly a mess and completely unbelievable . while i can see the possibility of a man get out of jail and go to his wait bride and i could not buy how he and his friend end up help their buddy hamlet ( billy ) in the bank and keep their fellow town people hostage . even more ridiculous be that because the guy be nice and they end up basically help them too . dean cain be really the only convince male actor of the five ( at least in the first half ) . although his come out of the bank and with gun blaze be just plain stupid and along with the fact that he wear gun under his tuxedo in the first place . andy dick seem to only be able to play one character his whole career and a strange and nerdy kind of matthew from news radio boy man . he really have no place here and his tell off the wife over the phone scene have be do way too many time in movie and tv show and it completely unoriginal . a be most of this blatant small town rip off of dog day afternoon ( which they at least acknowledge their ripping off ) . we get a sheriff who the father of wanted criminal hamlet . we also get the cliché of the crowd cheer for hamlet like he some kind of robin hood folk hero . i go to high school with that guy . say one of them and then theyre chant hamlet over and over . so and we get the you be never there for me dad plot and which have also be do in movie tv show . which make it hard to be sympathetic and but not just in that case and i couldn not sympathize with any of these character . even after find out about their personal downfall . the vietnam vet be so much a cartoon that what could have be a great character be waste . a be the acting talent of drew barrymore . her presence in all this be spread quite thin . then there the expected fbi converge on the town and with the leader who just want to blast the bad guy away . he and the sheriff be of course at at odds with each other and the other big city fbi men make fun of the small town people . they should be use to shoot gun wedding here . ( refer to barrymore and her boyfriend wanting to get marry in the middle of a hostage situation . ) i really only get into the movie when the more truthful and real element come into play . when andy be the first to get shot and then the fbi shoot up cain and hamlet get away bus in a scene somewhat similar to the end of clint eastwood and the gauntlet . hamlet and father make amends just before that and dad let his son get away . ( oh please . ) then the final two big rip off of all . barrymore and soon to be husband be give the steal money by hamlet and they fly of in the vietnam vet helicopter and escape scott free . shade of d. b. cooper . dean cain and hamelt then have one bullet each in their gun after the bus crash and their all shoot up . just like the final scene in butch cassidy and the sundance kid they come run out together and cain take down the leader of the fbi and who he swear he would take out . all the suppose reason these character have for let themselves into this mess be contrive and flimsy at best . i would say if this movie have be make a long time ago and have there not be dog day afternoon and it might seem more plausible but even the intense last half and which do hold my interest and be not enough to like this movie . four star for the final and intense attempt getaway chase scene and hamlet very well spoken shakespearian quote and which do fit in here and the movie thankfully take a needed turn into reality . otheriwse and i would never bother with best men again . ( end ) .