Crazy Six is a 1998 American gangster film directed by Albert Pyun and starring Rob Lowe, Mario Van Peebles, Ice-T, Ivana Miličević and Burt Reynolds. It was released direct-to-video in the United States on July 29, 1998.
Plot
A decade after the fall of
communism, a section of
Eastern Europe known as "Crimeland" becomes a trade route for
drugs and
weapons. Billie "Crazy Six" and his friends rob a
plutonium deal involving Raul in order to obtain money for their drug habits with the aid of "Dirty" Mao, who cheats them out of the money in the end. Raul is given 48 hours by his boss to recover the goods and begins by hunting them down at a local
Nightclub, injuring the
singer Anna and killing Andrew's girlfriend Viyana.
The American detective Dakota interviews Anna, leading him to Billie. Anna is kidnapped by Raul's men and forced to smoke Crack cocaine. Billie and Andrew rob "Dirty" Mao's hideout and recover the money. Dakota follows them to the exchange with Raul, but so does "Dirty" Mao. After a gunfight between Dakota and Raul's men, "Dirty" Mao kills Raul and attempts to frame Billie for it but is shot and killed by Dakota.
In the end, Dakota adopts "Dirty" Mao's dog, Anna returns to singing, and Billie gets clean.
Cast
Production
The screenplay originally took place in
San Francisco, but was rewritten after the production moved to
Slovakia to save money.
Crazy Six was the only feature film written by Galen Yuen, a former gang member-turned-character actor.
On the podcast
Magnificent Jerk, Yuen's niece and
Washington Post reporter Maya Lin Sugarman attests that the film was at least partially
autobiographical.
Release
The film was released direct-to-video in the United States on July 28, 1998.
Reception
Nathan Rabin of
The A.V. Club wrote that "Lowe is predictably awful" yet "despite Lowe's performance,
Crazy Six is palatable, with Pyun giving the film an appropriately seedy aura of glamorous decay."
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