Bullet Head

Malkovich has built a career mumbling his way through one disastrous movie after another, but this time he's got company.

Mostly, though, "Bullet Head" is about the characters and the crackling dialogue, and the first-rate actors giving just the right spin to their lines.

With too little freshness for crime-drama devotees, too many furry corpses for animal lovers and a thoroughly predictable wrap-up, Bullet Head ultimately screws the pooch

A meh title belies a gripping and resourceful crime-thriller in writer-director Paul Solet's impressive "Bullet Head."

The film's main draw is its cast, all of whom have seen more illustrious career days but nonetheless can still deliver the goods.

A film that somehow manages to be fairly watchable, yet nonetheless really needed intervention from the conceptual stage onward.

It's still very much a B-picture, but done with more verve and invention than you might expect.

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In spite of the promise it shows, Bullet Head comes up less than the sum of its parts.