After getting done watching Ca$h, coming soon now and sent to me by the crew out at MTI and their diehard press rep Ed Baran, I came to one important realization:

This was like some huge live-action cartoon.  Only with more violence.

Ca$h revolves around a man who’s desperately out for revenge.  A “dumpster baby” who was abandoned by his mother, Cash (yes, that’s his name), is roaming the fields and plains, doing stuff for no clear reason and out for revenge against a man named Hector Gonzalez.  Along the way, he’ll be shot, stabbed, thrown through things, and caught in explosions.  He’ll also do a whole lot of shooting, punching, headbutting and throwing people around like rag dolls.

Seriously, this is like a gigantic cartoon.  You want to know how much it’s like a cartoon?  Easy.  At one point, Cash will have a butcher knife thrown at him.  It will go into his shoulder a good three inches or more.  What’s his reaction to this, you wonder?  He grunts, looks moderately annoyed and throws a bottle at the guy who tossed it.  He doesn’t even pull the knife out until AFTER his next gunfight!

I saw that footage and all I could say was, seriously?  Seriously?

Ironically, they were being serious.  That actually happened.

The weird part is, Ca$h is actually a really good action movie.  There’s plenty of gunplay and explosions and gore and half-naked women.  This is pretty much the gold standard for action film.  The problem is that it’s a little TOO gold standard for its own good.  It’s scenes like that one I described before with the butcher knife that just make this movie hard to take seriously sometimes.

And then when a guy quotes the South Park movie before he kills another guy, that’s it.  All credibility is gone.

But this doesn’t matter.  It’s like this doesn’t have to be credible.  It’s a wild action romp, and that’s about the best way to describe it.  This is action movie in its purest form with lots of twists, turns and surprises, but with some parts so wildly out of touch with the whole that it damages the whole.

Some parts of this, they’ve just went a bit too far.

The Screenhead Ten Scale, meanwhile, salutes an action movie that can be so over the top it’s like a huge cartoon, and hands it an eight out of ten.  A bit too far in some parts, but oh so right in others.