If you are willing to risk to watch this movie, just a warning: it's really a turkey, one of the BIG ones...

There's a lot of things wrong with this movie....one being the wasted talents of its gifted cast. Nastassja Kinski (Cat People, One Night Stand), Alyson Hannigan (Boys and Girls, Tv's Buffy The Vampire Slayer), Jennifer Esposito (Tv's Spin City, Master Of Disguise), Brian McCradie (Speed 2: Cruise Control), Steve Harris (Tv's The Practice, Minority Report), Todd Field (Stranger Than Fiction, Twister) and even the always awesome Alexis Denisof (Tv's Angel, Rouge Trader) are all burned out with a soggy script and its way too familiar and formulaic. It's about what adds up to be a bad bank robbery with everyone shooting each other up at the end. I really thought the accents of both McCradie and Denisof trying to do Russians was bad. McCradie is Irish isnt he and Denisof is like British..no, I'm not buying it for one second. Kinski, Hannigan and Esposito are all sexy but like I said....Not much fun...drags on a long time.

I was really excited about seeing Alyson Hannigan in a movie where she's not playing Willow (from Buffy) or Michelle (from American Pie). Unfortunately, Alyson is the ONLY bright spot in this movie and there was not even enough of her. It was truly painful to watch at times. Everyone else's acting was atrocious. Jennifer Esposito should have her Guild card revoked for her performance. The story was awful, the script worse. If you're an Alyson Hannigan fan, watch it once for her performance. Skip through everything else. You won't miss much.

Never could have guesse that this movie would be so bad. COuld not reach the end of it, a very rare occasion!! The dialogues are so ludicrous, characters and acting obnoxious, I can't, I repeat, I can't understand how Alyson Hannigan starred this piece of... Shame on me for being such a BUFFY fan and having the bad habit of renting / buying anything remotely related to the cast of BUFFY....

Two stars only for the fact that Alyson Hannigan and Alexis Denisof were in the film. Besides that the movie was horrible. I found it hard just to pay attention. The only part of the movie that had an affect on me was when Alyson Hannigan's friend in the movie died and Alyson Hannigan was destroyed, the flashbacks of them were so heartbreaking. I felt Alyson's performance in that scene was the only thing that had me. Alexis Denisof's fake russian accent was atrocious.I rented the movie only for the fact that I saw Alyson Hannigan was in it. Being an extremely big Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel fan, I was ecstatic to read that Alexis Denisof was in it. But I must say, what a disappointment it was.

This movie was filmed in Hollywood in 2000, released in the Netherlands on DVD in 2001 under the title "Beyond the city limits", then finnaly released in the USA under the title "Rip it Off" in 2003. This is a very underrated film, it may have its flaws but I found the performances of the 3 female leads good enough to make it a reasonably good film, and viewers should take in to consideration the fact that this is only Gigi Gaston's second attempt at directing. I was glad to see Alyson Hannigan in a role that required more dramatic range than "Buffy" or "American Pie", I would love to see her in more roles like this but she seems to be mired in "Comedy" right now. The main flaw with this film is the poor editing, in watching this film I get the feeling that alot of good scenes were left on the cutting room floor. I would love to see a "Directors Cut" version of this film released with all these scenes restored.