With all the neon lights, unchecked avarice and inherent vice, it’s like Las Vegas is just ASKING someone to rob it. And rob it they do, but these guys in the new thriller Swelter aren’t the cheerful quipsters of the Ocean’s Eleven movies (past or present). They’re murderers who break out of jail years later to get their money back from the one member who avoided prison, and who now works as a sheriff. Irony? Or just amnesia?
Related: Watch the Exclusive Trailer for Swelter
CraveOnline got its hands on the first ten minutes of Swelter, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme (The Expendables 2), Grant Bowler (Atlas Shrugged: Part 1), Lennie James (“The Walking Dead”), Alfred Molina (Spider-Man 2) and Academy Award-nominee Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace). You can watch nearly 1/8th of the movie right now, and check out the rest when it hits DVD and Blu-ray on August 12, 2014.
From the Press Release:
Synopsis:
SWELTER is the story of the most notorious robbery in Las Vegas history. Five men, nicknamed the Rat Pack, hit the Luxor Casino for over one hundred million dollars. Four of the men are soon captured, while one barely escapes. Ten years later, after blasting their way out of a maximum-security prison, the four jailed members of the Rat Pack are hot on the trail of their former accomplice and the remaining ten million in stolen cash. The trail leads them to a dying desert town less than a hundred miles from the scene of the crime where they find their former partner is not the man he once was…he’s become a law-abiding sheriff without any memory of his past. The sheriff must now remember his violent history in order to protect all that he holds dear.
Bonus Materials Include:
- Interviews with the cast and crew:
o Jean-Claude Van Damme
o Writer/Director Keith Parmer
o Grant Bowler
o Josh Henderson
o Lennie James & Alfred Molina
- Trailer
