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| Dramatic coloring and another title adorns this promising if innocuous poster for Tripp Reed's Rapid Exchange |
A group of professional thieves gather around a difficult but potentially very lucrative assignment: They want to rob a Boeing 747 mid-air, which carries means from the US Treasury Department.
Rapid Exchange is written by Sam Wells (Boa vs. Python (2004, video)) and co-writer/director Tripp Reed (Pretty Little Liars (2014-15)).
The problem here is that Rapid Exchange looks like a cheap straight-to-video or TV movie, (which it is), and that there is nothing in its content to weigh up for this fault. The qualities it arguably has are paper thin at best, and Lance Henriksen (Harbinger Down (2015)) as the flick's only real star brings it nothing substantial.
Rapid Exchange gives an inkling of the kind of light, humorous heist picture that it sought to be, but neither its narrative nor its execution makes this attempt stick. It is a drowsy, unrewarding couch potato time.
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[Rapid Exchange was released direct-to-video 13 May (USA) and runs 97 minutes. Shooting took place in Sofia, Bulgaria. Reed returned with Manticore (2005, TV movie). Regrettably, nothing is reported of its cost or gross; its production company Jet Productions LLC has only this release to its credit, - but that doesn't necessarily mean that the film didn't make money. Henriksen returned in Dream Warrior (2003); Lorenzo Lamas (Invasion America (1998, TV-series)) in 13 Dead Men (2003). 440 IMDb users have given Rapid Exchange a 4.6/10 average rating.]
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