Four Days Reviews

This forlorn, teen-noir jeremiad drifts to a preordained climax and overstates such cliches as "crime doesn't pay" and "there's no honor among thieves." Partners Fury (Colm Meaney) and Milt (William Forsythe) are fleeing with the loot from an armored truck when they bump into adolescent skateboarder Simon (Kevin Zegers); after the collision, Simon picks up the wrong bag. What Fury doesn't realize is that Simon is Milt's son, and that Milt planned the switcheroo so he could cheat Fury out of his share. The cops open fire on the robbers and fatally wound Milt; Simon waits in vain for his rendezvous with Daddy. Fury eventually realizes he's been had, and resolves to find the teenager who ripped him off. Fury stars his search with the assistance of Milt's former girlfriend, Feather (Anne-Marie Cadieux), while Simon — who still thinks he's going to hook up with his dad — hitchhikes to their pre-planned meeting place. Simon gets a ride with nymphomaniac Chrystal (Lolita Davidovich) — and nearly gets something more when they stop at a rustic lodge — only to find himself dealing with two sets of angry visitors. Chrystal's jealous husband, Gray (Patrick Goyette), shows up to reclaim Chrystal. Then Fury and Feather show up and reveal that Milt is dead. Simon begins to think of the stash as his father's legacy, and decides on a desperate plan to keep it: All he has to do is convince Fury that Gray has snatched the money. This cryptic, irritatingly arty thriller is suspenseful nor sexy, though it wastes a lot of time titillating viewers with Chrystal's seductiveness before losing its nerve. Scenes of commonplace criminal behavior are interrupted by scenes of Simon's conversations with his dead father, and in the end you can't help but wonder why writer Pinckney Benedict and director Curtis Wehrfritz found this commonplace criminal behavior interesting.