Product Details

• Actors: Casper Van Dien, Gregg Henry, Libby Hudson, Robert Englund, Ray Wise
• Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Dej
• DVD Release Date: July 29, 2003
• Run Time: 102 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00009MEI9
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #359,068 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Windfall" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

The worst hurricane in a century is ready to pound the East coast, and somebody inside and island casino is planning to use the storm as a diversion to pull off a huge inside job. Ace and Scratch, two professional thieves-gone-good, are security guards in the casino. As they struggle to stop the heist, it's a race against time or they'll be trapped in a storm that is destroying everything in its path.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars SO BAD IT'S GOOD, January 7, 2005

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Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Windfall (DVD)

WINDFALL is one of those movies that is so ludicrously bad that you end up being entertained anyway. Casper van Dien (Starship Troopers, Cutaway, etc.) and Robert Englund (our beloved Freddy Krueger) star as two thieves who boldly rob a high profile casino on a South Carolina island. When they are caught after a ridiculously unbelievable chase scene, the casino owner (Ray Wise of Twin Peaks and Jeepers Creepers) does what any respectable businessman would do: he hires them as security guards! (Reasoning that since they were able to steal a million clams from him, they would be good guards). Security chief Gregg Henry (Body Double) of course is not too happy about this, as he has been stealing from Wise anyway, and plans on ripping off his entire fortune. His assistant, played with wide eyed stupidity by Jeff Kober (Falcon Crest, One Man's Justice), is also not too happy. Van Dien meanwhile starts courting Wise's assistant (Libby Hudson), and before you know it, someone's trying to silence Van Dien. Wise of course knows that Henry is robbing him, so his motive to hire Van Dien was more of a ploy to snatch Henry than his stated philanthropic motives. The big climax takes place during Hurricane Brenda. The special effects scenes are passable but one realizes we are watching the same two cars being blown around. No one in his movie can shoot the side of a barn, and the boat chase scene is preposterous.
Van Dien is horrible as always; poor Englund looks embarrassed, and Ray Wise looks like he'll never be forgiven for killing Laura Palmer. But still it's entertaining in a delirious way, so I guess they did something right???