Charades 1998 123movies

Watch: Charades 1998 123movies, Full Movie Online – Barry is a down-and-out-guy who takes a job at the shipping department of Technoworks, a high-tech Yuppie company. He gets invited to the house of his boss Quinn, for a weekend afternoon barbecue with some of his boss’s friends. The party gets weird, Barry plays a demented version of charades while standing on the picnic table, and the next door neighbor starts screaming racial slurs over the fence. When Jude, the widow of the ex-owner of Technoworks arrives, the plot thickens. Clues to past crimes are revealed, and the real reason for the party is discovered. But not before Barry beats the hell out of a tow-truck driver, screws the boss’s wife and wreaks havok with the neighbor. And as the title suggests, before the day is over, we will discover who is the Felon, or perhaps the people at party are all, one way or another, Felons..
Plot: Barry is a down-and-out-guy who takes a job at the shipping department of Technoworks, a high-tech Yuppie company. He gets invited to the house of his boss Quinn, for a weekend afternoon barbecue with some of his boss’s friends. The party gets weird, Barry plays a demented version of charades while standing on the picnic table, and the next door neighbor starts screaming racial slurs over the fence. When Jude, the widow of the ex-owner of Technoworks arrives, the plot thickens. Clues to past crimes are revealed, and the real reason for the party is discovered. But not before Barry beats the hell out of a tow-truck driver, screws the boss’s wife and wreaks havok with the neighbor. And as the title suggests, before the day is over, we will discover who is the Felon, or perhaps the people at party are all, one way or another, Felons.
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Ratings:

	4.2/10 Votes: 435
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Reviews:

Watching this film from the end is much easier…
… but it’s OK! Good cast, Thomas C Howell should be more exposed in the story – he’s a great actor, even when he’s a bit wounded. Wounds, blood and violence – remember, there is much of it here. The moment the first blood appears is both comic and shocking – worth waiting for! And we’ve got two pretty flowers here – Erika and red-headed, sexy, unfaithul wife Kimberley Kates. And remember – don’t ever do the same thing to the guy who takes your car away from your neighbour’s pavement!

Outrageously overblown. Infuriatingly dull. Avoid.
I can’t say I had high expectations when I began watching. It doesn’t seem like this has been held in high regard at any point, and on a personal note, the last time I watched a movie with C. Thomas Howell (see 2010’s ‘Cupid’s arrow’ – or rather, please don’t), it was one of the most abysmal pieces of trash I can recall. Somehow ‘Charades,’ also known as ‘Felons,’ still falls below those low expectations.

The screenplay is a choppy, unconvincing mess. Believe it or not, there was a time when movies involving recollections could tell a complete, cohesive, and compelling story without relying on active flashbacks to visualize them; modern filmmakers could learn a lot by revisiting movies from, say, the 1930s. But the narrative conjured between Richmond Riedel and Karen Black throws in so many frequent blasts from the past that communication of the plot becomes staggered and weak. That plot is dull and uninteresting in the first place, at best – if not boorish and aggravating – and its conveyance only makes it more so. Dialogue is much the same, and in addition is altogether juvenile at times, unreal, and less than believable. So it is, too, with the scene writing, and characters are distinctly unlikable and unsympathetic.

Stephen Eckelberry’s direction is loose, and all but haphazard. Fima Noveck’s editing is flagrantly overzealous, helping to further rip us out of the viewing experience with constant cuts from shot to shot, or between concurrent scenes. The acting from all involved ranges from bland to emphatically overcooked. Hair and makeup work bears the appearance of tawdry artifice, and Susan Helen Emerson’s cinematography is unpolished and glaring in a way that sometimes all but hurts the eyes, and definitely doesn’t help the visual presentation in any way. And so it is through and through, with one aspect of the feature after another not just disappointing but plainly infuriating for how very poorly it’s all done. Rotten as ‘Charades’ is, there is no value to be found. Any instance of would-be sex, violence, or comedy is robbed of all possible stimulation and worth.

What’s truly astounding is that there are glimmers in the concept of what could have been a good movie. It would have taken an entirely different writer, direct, cast, and crew to make it happen, and maybe also a trip through time to turn the clock back to the 40s or 50s, but it possesses recognizable noir-esque undertones. After all, the story carries all the major narrative elements – shady characters, dirty dealings, bad business, deepening holes, and so on. Yet from start to finish it’s all just rubbish. In no time at all watching becomes an effort to find something, anything, to latch onto, a pinprick of positivity in an ocean of schlock. That effort is futile. However it came to be that you stumbled upon this title, there’s no reason whatsoever to watch this. It’s unquestionably one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, and I say that as someone who’s embarrassed to even name some of the other titles I’ve watched. I hope in all sincerity that any potential viewer reads these words, and heeds them; if another pair of eyes never again suffers through ‘Charades,’ then at least some good will have come of my torment.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 34 min (94 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Mystery
Director Stephen Eckelberry
Writer Richmond Riedel, Karen Black
Actors Robert Fields, Jack Scalia, James Wilder
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Stereo
Aspect Ratio N/A
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm