FINDERS KEEPERS FULL MOVIE REVIEW

FINDERS KEEPERS MOVIE REVIEW:-

                                                        Lonnie Cabot, a cleaner at the nightclub lives a lonely life until he befriends a club patron, Brian Bekker, a manic depressive. Lonnie's life changes completely when he finds a box containing a wad of cash and a watch hidden in a toilet at the club. However, Lonnie doesn't know the money belongs to the club owner, a Russian mob who uses these boxes for diamond trafficking. Brian somehow convinces Lonnie to bet the cash on a horse race. Meanwhile, a local gang leader, Jackie Jardine is looking to find his son's murderer and believes Lonnie is the culprit. As Lonnie and Brian find it difficult to retrieve the cash from the bookie, they steal a lucky fish to repay the debt to the Russian mob.

                                                           The son of a local gangster meets the owner of a Russian strip club, Kiril (Grant Swanby) to strike a business deal involving drugs. When Kiril notices the watch he is wearing, he realises that it's the same watch in which he had ordered diamonds to be smuggled into Cape Town. Kiril's brother murders the gangster's son who hides the diamonds in the toilet of the strip club. While cleaning the toilet, the club's janitor, Lonnie Cabot (Dalin Oliver) finds the watch case with diamonds and dollars. He teams up with the club regular, Brian Bekker (Neels van Jaarsveld) and bets them on race horses. Now the gangster, is out to avenge his son's murder, the strip club owner wants his diamonds back and Lonnie and Brian get involved in this dangerous game.

    

                                               This South African production helmed by director Maynard Kraak is an amateurish attempt at tickling the funny bone. While it was intended to be a situational comedy, the gags seem laboured and the innumerable twists and turns seem forced. Comedian Dalin Oliver tries to elicit laughs with his act as a janitor who is easily bullied and is not taken seriously but his efforts don't always hit the right chord. While the makers have tried to milk the script which revolves around a watch for laughs, as a viewer you will be only keeping a close look at your watch and pray that this hair-brained comedy will be over soon. Watch a screwball comedy at home instead.