Pawn Shop Chronicles (2013)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2013
	Director: Wayne Kramer
	Actors: Paul Walker, Brendan Fraser (Encino Man, The Mummy 1-3), Norman Reedus, Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings 1-3, Maniac), Matt Dillon (Wild Things, Ther's Something about Mary)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Comedy, Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 29.08.2013, CINEMA theater, MFFF2013
Synopsis: Three stories starting in a pawn shop: thieves, kidnapping and the new Elvis.
Review: From the trailer I was expecting three stories told in parallel while in fact the movie is a pure anthology ("film a sketches" like V/H/S or The ABCs of Death), i.e. the stories are told one after the other like three independant short films, and the small details that link them (The pawn shop, Elvis, the army of naked Zombie women!) was particularly well done in this movie. The first segment is quite crazy and it was very hard to understand the Texan accent without subtitles. In the second part we find Matt Dillon (good to see him back) on a quest that will lead him to Elijah Wood, definitely attached to psychopath roles since Maniac and Sin City to help forget the image of Frodo. Finally Brendan Fraser plays a magnificent Elvis in the third segment. The story is sometimes predictible but sometimes not at all and in the end it is a good movie.
Rating: 7 /10