Synopsis
A heightened homage to the City of Angels, Electric Slide riffs on the real-life story of Eddie Dodson, the notorious "Gentleman Bank Robber." With a debonair sophistication and a serious talent for flirt, Dodson managed to lure money from mesmerized female tellers at over 60 banks during an epic spree in the 1980s.
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Cast
- Jim SturgessEddie Dodson
- Isabel LucasPauline
- Patricia ArquetteTina
- Christophe LambertRoy Fortune
- Chloë SevignyCharlotte
- Vinessa ShawMimi
- Will McCormackDetective Fred Mercury
- Constance WuMika Oh
- Kate MicucciSue Fellucci
- Osgood PerkinsAndy Segal
Recommandations
- 75
New York Post
Dryly comic, arch, sleek, and suffused with mood-setting tracks by the likes of X and Depeche Mode, Electric Slide has some of the mordant absurdity of the novels of Bret Easton Ellis. Like its dim hero, it’s going nowhere, but traveling in style. - 50
Slant Magazine
Like the characters, the film's exterior flash can't conceal a glaring emptiness. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
It's historically accurate, since Electric Slide is set in 1983, but it only emphasizes the hollow emptiness of this faux New Wave-style crime drama that emphasizes style over substance to an enervating degree. - 30
Village Voice
Patterson seems more concerned with getting the surfaces right (costume design, production design) than tapping any of the adrenaline that should be pumping through bank robberies, love scenes, and confrontations with barking loan sharks — adrenaline we should feel even if the protagonist is meant to be cucumber-cool. - 20
The Dissolve
With familiar faces like Arquette and Sevigny turning up in nothing roles, the film looks like a cheap, underproduced facsimile of the crime movies it’s trying to emulate. It goes down in a blaze of hoary. - 16
The Playlist
Tiresomely told, uninteresting, and turgid, Electric Slide is as insipid as it gets — a meaningless movie about almost nothing at all.
