Bruce Willis in "Catch .44"

Three bad gals and assorted bad guys spread a lot of gunfire around in “Catch .44,” a drug-deal tale featuring top-drawer actors trying to have fun with a medium-strength script. Sometimes they succeed, but not often enough to elevate the film to “Pulp Fiction” territory.


Malin Akerman, Nikki Reed and Deborah Ann Woll play young lovelies with guns who are not afraid to use them. As the film opens they are on some kind of mission for a drug lord (Bruce Willis, nicely odd) that lands them in a diner, where their holdup plans don’t go so well.


Then the script (by Aaron Harvey, who also directed) starts jumping around in time, giving us glimpses of how this ill-fated moment came about. Forest Whitaker turns up with an itchy trigger finger and a goofy accent, and the double crosses start piling up along with the bodies.