Freaky Deaky is that Saturday night movie flick you put on with a bag of popcorn, hoping for a good time. Billy Burke stars as Chris Mankowski, a bomb-squad detective who spends the first few minutes of the film calmly walking away from an explosion in typical 70s action hero style. Except, he’s not a hero the way we might identify one. He’s lazy, under motivated and not very likable. That is until Sabina Gadecki enters the picture, all legs and intrigue. She is the femme fatale, the victim of a sex crime that our man Mankowski is tasked with solving.
This is one part love story, one part gangster movie, one part Pulp Fiction. It’s got a solid script penned by Charles Matthau with creative input from Elmore Leonard. Matthau also handles the direction, which seems haphazard until the final moments of the film when things finally tie together. The bright spots here are the actors, who are all names you’ll recognize but not names that headline. Michael Jai White has expert comedic timing alongside Crispin Glover, playing sidekick to Glover’s apathetic money man. One thing is for sure, someone is about to lose it all and Jai White is looking for the right opening.
